Culvert
A passageway under tracks for the drainage of water.
Cupola
A small cabin atop the caboose where the brakeman can scan ahead over the roofs of freight cars in a train.
Part XXI: CULVERTS
Fall is here. The rainy season is coming. We should provide drain paths for the storm water about to threaten our right of way.
(1) Lionel® 12982 culvert unloader
(1) Lionel® 14001 #364 conveyor lumber loader
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Wing Wall. An extension wall of an abutment wall which retains adjacent earth and/or deflects or guides a stream into pipes, culverts, and the waterway of a bridge.
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If you've used foam as a base for your layout, it will be easy to cut a small ditch along the side of the road, paint it with earth color, add ground foam, weeds, rocks, culverts, etc. to add realism.
Despite being rostered by the railroad as a pile driver, it was essentially a bridge derrick with detachable pile driver leads. This one is blocking highway traffic while driving a piling to stabilize the ground around a small culvert.
A steel rolled member having an H-shape with its flanges wider and its web thinner than an I-beam.
Wing Wall. An extension wall of an abutment wall which retains adjacent earth and/or deflects or guides a stream into pipes, culverts, ...
Culverts and other passages for water must be kept clear lest water is impounded by the trackbed, causing landslips.
The second type is used in the culvert loader and unloader and in the aquarium car and animated gondola. It uses a coil near a flexible steel strip. Similarly it pulls and pushes the strip 60 times a second.
 See also: Class, Track, Normal, Standard, Rail
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