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Railroad Corridor Cross Section

From a cut slope and MSE wall, across a track embankment on soft clay and a pile-supported bridge over a creek, to an intermodal yard and a building on spread footings. Each numbered marker is a calculator; select it to open the calculator.

Draft · pending Benesch final review · not for use in design
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Railroad corridor cross section with numbered calculator markersCut slope with an MSE wall, track embankment on soft clay with a culvert, bridge abutment on piles, creek with a sheet-pile bank and a drilled-shaft pier, intermodal yard, and a building on spread footings, over soft clay, sand, weathered rock and bedrock. Numbered markers link to the calculator for each element.
Not to scale. Markers show where each calculation applies, not the design. Blue dashed lines: groundwater (long dashes) and frost line (short dashes, under the yard).On a phone, scroll the drawing sideways.