Goods Shed
A building through or alongside which a railway track and a roadway passes, and which incorporates storage facilities. Such sheds are used for the loading and unloading of goods between road and railway vehicles.
Goods Yard ...
Goods that are transported to their final destination by more than one rail company.
Interlocking
A mechanical or electrical signaling system that ensures that only one train at a time is allowed to move through a junction.
Goods
Anything shipped by rail that doesn't involve live human beings. Called freight in North America, though I think the term freight is becoming more common in the UK as well.
(goods) van (UK), boxcar (US): an enclosed railroad car, or piece of rolling stock, used to transport freight. (vacuum brake)
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A goods wagon in which the portion between the two axles or bogies is lowered so as to provide room within the loading- gauge for a high load.
Westinghouse Brake ...
To send goods to a foreign country.
Export Rate
A rate published on traffic moving from an interior point to a port for trans-shipment to a foreign country.
* Beached goods. Anything from a weird boat to a torpedo to a whale. People stand around in a small crowd gaping at whatever cute thing washed up. Usually, there are some kind of experts actually working on the thing.
Cargo or goods carried by a vehicle
2. Shipment transported
3. Compensation paid to a railroad for transporting a commodity
4. Total charges for the rail shipment from the waybill origin to the waybill destination.
A Boxcar (US) Goods van (UK): rolling stock, used to transport freight
BNSF Railway GP60B B Unit
An example of a BNSF Railway bad order repair tag ...
DX Goods
RAILWAYS. A type of steam locomotive.
Dynamic Brake
RAILWAYS. A type of braking system often found in electric and diesel-electric locomotives, in which the electric motors are made to operate as generators. See also Westinghouse.
- They move raw materials and manufactured goods from place to place. - The patterns of these movements are all driven by economics. Modelbuilding - This is pretty straight forward! After all, we are building a Model Railroad.
Wagon - European term for railway vehicle for the conveyance of goods.
Washout - Track ballast washed away by water action.
Way Car - A freight car carrying local shipments.
We haul a large volume of high value goods as well as commodities that will render quick cash for those that are trying to make a quick buck. And as it would happen, many rail yards tend to be situated in higher crime areas.
Emigrant family with its household goods and farm equipment traveling by rail; sometimes included even livestock crowded into the same boxcar. Zulu can mean only the car, or the car and all its contents.
A form of freight hauling car for bulk goods.
ORER Official Railway Equipment Register.
An operating session usually implies one or more operators running trains in a purposeful way from one point to another on a layout delivering goods or services according to a certain time frame determined by a "fastclock" simulating scheduled ...
This type of locomotive was experimented with but never came into regular use. Gauge The distance between the two running rails on a single piece of track. Goods Shed A shed with a built in platform where smaller goods are loaded into vans.
which initiated the war, miles of track ripped up by Confederate raiders were left in a state of disrepair and, while boxes of food and ammunition sat on sidings, railroad executives haggled with army officers over the cost of transporting the goods.
Enclosed freight car used for hauling goods that must be protected from the weather. Loaded/unloaded through side doors.
Boxed joints ...
A listing or invoice-of-charge for a particular shipment of goods or materiel.
Markers
Lamps displayed on the rear of a train to indicate that the complete train has passed, or to serve as a warning to following trains.
A weight prescribed by agreement between carrier and shipper for goods packed and shipped in a specified manner.
AIB
Air Inflatable Bulkhead.
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Reefer (Refrigerator Car) - Cooled by ice loaded through roof hatches, or by mechanical means, in modern times, these insulated freight cars are used to transport frozen goods.
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