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USA: BNSF has taken delivery of JFE Steel's first shipment of 600 tonnes of Super Pearlite Type 3 rail from Japan. In -service tests which were carried out for more than a year in Nebraska and Idaho predict that SP3 will offer a 10% longer life than previous head hardened ...

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