When the cars arrived and I opened the boxes, I was impressed before removing the coach from its packing. Upon first visual inspection, I had the impression I was looking at an expensive, custom painted brass model.
Coaching Stock
Any vehicles, passenger or otherwise, which is designed for use in passenger trains.
Coaling Stage ...
coach — also known, especially in the UK, as a railway carriage — is a passenger car designed for the conveyance of passengers by rail (the first such vehicles were, in fact, ...
Coach
In UK railway talk, an unpowered piece of rolling stock used for carrying passengers. In non-railway UK talk, a motor vehicle designed to carry passengers but intended for use point to point, usually between cities.
Coaches owned by private individuals/railroad (for use of corporate officials or supervisors). Cars were positioned at end of trains and train crew were to remain off these cars except in performance of duties.
Coach: basic passenger car, fitted with seats for riders.
Baggage: special car for carrying passengers' baggage, equivalent to stowed luggage on an airplane. One big difference: railroads handled passengers' luggage far better than airlines do.
Two of the coaches seated 60 passengers, the third seated 56 and had a stewardess-nurse room. The cars were painted in royal blue, gray, and black with yellow trim and accents.
British Rail Coach Designations
British Carriage And Wagon Numbering And Classification ...
A combination coach and baggage car.
Comfort cab
Any control cab that is significantly larger than what has been used for the past several decades and which incorporates any of several features creating a better work environment for the engine crew, ...
PASSENGER CAR/COACH/ROCK ISLAND RR. DAY-LIGHT #339-349 1947
PULLMAN STANDARD, 1947 "GOLDEN STATE" "GOLDEN ROCKET"
GEORGE TRAGER
PROTOTYPE DATA & DRAWING
Railroad Model Craftsman
Jan 1970 Page 46 Vol 38 Num 8 ...
A combination coach and baggage car.
Command Control
A way of controlling model trains by sending electronic messages through the rails. Each locomotive has a decoder or receiver which only responds to the messages specifically directed to it.
Autocoach (UK): A passenger coach fitted with a driving cab and controls for use in an Autotrain (UK).
Automatic Equipment Identification (AEI) (US): Automatic tracking system using RFID technology.[2] ...
Private Car/Business Car Coaches owned by private individuals/railroad (for use of corporate officials or supervisors). Cars were positioned at end of trains and train crew were to remain off these cars except in performance of duties.
Each outward coach has a cab at the outer end which enables the driver to drive the unit in both directions without having to turn the unit. Very useful on smaller layouts and end to end.
Also known as a coach. In the US is referred to as a car. Catenary Originally the term used to denote an overhead power line support wire derived from the curve a suspended wire naturally assumes under the force of gravity.
Usually used to refer to coach, but may be used by some when referring to parlor cars.
Chopper — a brand of tool manufactured by Northwest Shortline used to cut stripwood into pieces of the same exact length.
CNJ 70‘ heavyweight coach
CNJ 70' heavyweight observation
Pullman 85' heavyweight 12-1
Pullman 85' heavyweight 10-1-2
CNJ 85' café car
NP Pullman 85' lightweight smooth-side coach (kit) - also painted as Amtrak Heritage coach ...
If your trip was short, or your budget modest, you rode coach in the same train as the Pullman cars, or on a less important train. The more ordinary coach trains were more numerous and stopped more often.
He has worked as a newspaper columnist, teacher, coach and administrator and is a professional racecar driver, winning the 2007 Daytona Antique Auto Racing Association's Championship.
When the engine covers the second sensor the train slows just quickly enough to allow the train to stop with one of the coaches in front of the station.
Automatic Station Stop Circuit ...
A passenger train (wooden passenger coaches used to be given a glossy coat of varnish).
Vestibule ...
Varnish
A passenger train (wooden passenger coaches used to be given a glossy coat of varnish).
Escape Road
A loop adjacent to a platform track at a terminus station, which enables a locomotive to "escape" from the dead end of the terminus, in which it would otherwise be trapped by its coaches.
 See also: Train, Track, Locomotive, Engine, Point
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