Car Card Links
Companion article to Essence of Operations
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dining car (British English: restaurant car) or diner is a railroad passenger car that serves meals on a train in the manner of a full-service, sit-down restaurant.
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TRAINDOC'S Roundhouse
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Now for the car body. Before you get out your Xacto knife and start cutting off window pieces, look at the instructions. The windows for the 4 side doors are individual; but the remaining windows are to be left in strips.
Detail Model Car Engines on the Cheap
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Detailing model car engines requires extraordinary patience.
To properly detail scale-model car engines, you first need to have access to photographs of the full-scale engine compartment from which to work.
Why all this new car smell talk you might ask? Good question with a good answer. CN is currently taking delivery of thirty-one new Dash 9-44C locomotives from General Electric.
POP CAR"Gasoline car or speeder, used by section men, linemen, etc.; so called because of the put-put noise of its motor exhaust
POPS"Retainers
POSITIVE BLOCK"Locomotive engineer ...
Rail Car
A self-propelled railway coach. This term is sometimes used to refer to an auto-train.
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Cabin car (PRR): See caboose.[9]
Cabless: A locomotive without a cab. Commonly referred to as a B unit or a Slug. Although not all Slugs are cabless.
Using car cards and waybills is probably the most popular method of car forwarding used for model railroad operations. You can buy the forms for this through Micro-Mark or Old Line Graphics; or you can make your own.
Hopper car: An open-top car for hauling items that don't need protection, such as coal and gravel. Unloaded through doors in funnel-like bins in bottom of car.
If the car is lighted by batteries, you may get tired of replacing batteries, and wish to put in a track powered constant intensity lighting system. You may also wish to light up your unlighted rolling stock.
Incline Car Photograph (55k)
The next photograph shows the drive mechanism and motor as they were built for the incline railway. The terminals are for the motor (1,2) and for the timer circuits control inputs (3,4,5).
Air Pak Car
Car equipped with two bulkheads with an inflatable rubber bag between them which, when inflated, exerts pressure to hold the lading against the end walls of the car.
Alertor ...
Car inspector.
Gandy Dancer
Track laborer. Name may have originated from the gander-like tremulations of a man tamping ties, or from the old Gandy Manufacturing Company of Chicago, which made tamping bars, claw bars, picks, and shovels.
Car equipped with facilities for feeding and housing construction and maintenance employees in the field. Most often created from obsolete rolling stock originally built for other functions. Also known as a camp car.
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Car which has been assigned to a particular industry or for use with a specific commodity.
Automatic Air Brake ...
Car placed at a customer location waiting for loading or unloading. Also known as Active Placement.
AEI ...
Car, trailer or push. A four-wheeled railroad work car designed to be pushed by hand or pulled by a motor car.
Car for the brakeman and other crew; office for the conductor at the rear of a freight train.
Caboose-Way Car
A caboose with a section for tools and equipment for track work, or a caboose with a section for hauling freight.
Car Barn
Storage house for trolley and interurban cars.
Car-catcher
Slang term for brakeman.
A car attached to a steam locomotive that carries extra fuel and water for the locomotive.
Third rail
An extra rail mounted alongside the running rails to supply current for electric locomotives or traction cars.
Well car.
Aircraft parts flatcar.
Wheel: The rolling component typically pressed onto an axle and mounted on a rail car or locomotive truck or bogie. Wheels are cast or forged (wrought) and are heat treated to have a specific hardness.
Hopper car Open top car, tall sides. Coal and gravel, emptied through chutes at the base.
Once the car is by the switch brakeman #1 applies the hand brake to stop the car. The engine now can be backed up and then used to spot the car.
PCC street car takes happy shoppers downtown.
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Dynamometer Car
A railway vehicle which incorporates apparatus for measuring draw-bar pull, speed, and work done by the locomotive to which the vehicle is coupled.
DVT
Driving Van Trailor ...
Way Car - A freight car carrying local shipments.
Weathering - Making shiny models look more realistic by painting them to show the effects of use.
Wheel Set - Pair of wheels secured to an axle.
Wildcat - A runaway locomotive.
Stock Car
RAILWAYS. A term used in the USA, and possibly some other countries, for a freight wagon used to transport live animals ("stock"). Not to be confused with a stockcar as in stockcar racing.
Stoker
RAILWAYS.
Dynamic Braking A braking system in which the train motors acting as generators provides braking forces upon the car. EA (Environmental Assessment) Formerly called EIS/AA, for Environmental Impact Statement/Alternatives Analysis.
A small building used for storing the section motor car or hand car, maintenance-of-way tools, and other equipment of a section gang.
Separator, adjustable.
When load is not longitudinally centered on car, the axles of the truck closest to longitudinal center of gravity of load will carrying a greater total load than the axles of the truck farthest from the center of gravity of the load and their ...
On another occasiont when I had been at Norton about 3 weeks, Westmoreland Coal Company at Appalachia loaded a 100 car unit train destined for the Walnut Cove Steam Plant (S. Boston, VA).
Known as a flat car in the US. Flat (2) A spot on a wheel, caused by skidding or wheel slide, ...
CNJ 85' café car
NP Pullman 85' lightweight smooth-side coach (kit) - also painted as Amtrak Heritage coach
NP Pullman 85' lightweight smooth-side combine (kit) - also painted as Amtrak Heritage combine.
A new Lionel (O gage) box car would only connect with my engine with a hard impact (when the engine coupler was closed and the box car coupler open).
A daily mixed train with a combine or coach and baggage-mail car behind a box car or two could keep beans on the table for a passel of short line folks. Modeling such a train will take far less time, less money and certainly require less space.
With various brush sizes, apply in a downward motion from the top of the car, your thinned polly scale paint, and work it into the grooves and such. It's best to have a few shades of grime thinned to give you a better look.
I used Evergreen N scale car siding, smooth side out. First I cut out the windows. Then I traced around the template with a sharp X-acto knife. The two narrow straight pieces are used to anchor the cupola sides to the car body.
Draft Gear - The boxes located under each end of a railway car or locomotive, which contain shock absorbing spring mounted couplers. In non-talgo truck installations, the draft gear is attached to the car body, or a locomotive pilot.
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Mineral wagon
Open wagon for shipping minerals - coal, ballast, sand, etc. Roughly analogous to the North American gondola car, but gondolas are generally at least three times as long as the little British wagons.
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