Easement:
No Easement:
You can use turntables, wyes or reversing tracks as a way of turning your trains around (without having to manually lift them up off the tracks).
easement — a curve of decreasing radius introduced before a regular curve to ease a train into the curve providing a gradual transition from straight track to curved. On the real railroads a very precise hyperbolic curve is calculated.
Easement curve. See Curve, easement.
Electrified Territory. That portion of the railroad consisting of main tracks, secondary tracks, sidings, ...
Spiral curve or easement
A curve of gradually increasing radius that makes the transition between a tangent or straight track and a fixed-radius curve.
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Spiral easement See Track transition curve. Also known as tangent lead-in.
SPT (UK): Signal-post telephone - a direct no-dial telephone link to the relevant Signal-box, positioned on or near a signal.
The thirds tool you will need to create is a “easement stick'. This thin 3’ piece of wood is used to make gentile natural easements from straight sections to curved sections.
A curve that gradualy increases or decreases. Also called an easement.
Traveling Card
1) Card given by a railroad Brotherhood to a man in search of employment.
2) An empty slip bill.
Also known as the transition spiral and spiral easement.
Track warrant (TWC)(US) Occupancy Control System (OCS)(CA): A system for authorizing main track occupancy using defined points such as mileposts, switches, or stations.
Also called an easement.
Trestle - A wooden bridge structure of regularly placed bents.
Trolley - Pole mounted on a roof of electric vehicle with a wheel attached to outer end to pick up electric current from overhead contact wire.
 See also: Engine, Track, Curve, Point, Locomotive
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