Amsted Rail Passenger Bogie Offerings
Service-proven passenger bogie platforms for intercity and commuter rail applications.
- Axle-load envelope
- Project-specific to vehicle and route
- Speed envelope
- Project-specific to the validated platform
Product overview
Amsted Rail provides complete powered and unpowered transit bogie systems built on service-proven General Steel Industries platforms. The systems are engineered for passenger, intercity, commuter and heavy-rail applications, with H-frames, bolsters, wheelsets, axles, coil-spring suspension and bearings supplied as a validated assembly.
Tahawy Group offers Amsted Rail Transit bogies as one of its passenger running-gear routes, selecting the final powered or trailer configuration according to vehicle architecture, route dynamics, ride quality, braking, track gauge, maintainability and the end user’s standards.
Technical highlights
- Service-proven GSI cast-steel platforms
- Complete powered or unpowered assemblies
- Primary and secondary suspension configurations
- Designed to meet applicable FRA, AAR, PRIIA and APTA requirements
- Customer-specific dynamic and structural validation
Configuration options
- Powered or unpowered arrangement
- Inboard or outboard bearing architecture
- Coil, chevron-pad or air-spring suspension options
- Complete wheelsets, axles, Brenco bearings and overhaul kits
- Dynamic simulation, structural analysis and full-system validation
Technical data
Technical Specifications
| Specification | Value | Technical note |
|---|---|---|
| System type | Powered or unpowered transit bogie | Selected to vehicle architecture |
| Platform | Service-proven GSI cast-steel design | |
| Applications | Intercity, commuter, heavy rail and special transit vehicles | |
| Suspension | Primary and secondary suspension | Coil, chevron-pad and air-spring options by design |
| Running gear | Wheelsets, axles, suspension and bearings supplied as an engineered system | |
| Validation | Dynamic simulation, structural analysis and project-specific testing | |
| Standards | FRA, AAR, PRIIA and APTA as applicable to the project |
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