hog law - nickname for federal regulation limiting operation crews to a maximum of 16 consecutive hours of work. This law was done to prevent crew members from working so many hours that their fatigue contributed to accidents and injuries.
ROAD HOG"Any large motor vehicle on a highway, especially intercity trailer trucks and busses that cut into railroad freight and passenger revenue
ROOFED"Caught in close clearance ...
Bridge Hog
Bridge and building carpenter of the old school antedating steel and concrete.
Bridge Line Haul Road
See Overhead Line Haul Road.
Hog Head, Fog Eater, Hogger, Eagle eye, Speed gager, Throttle puller, Positive block
Enginehouse foreman
Madhouse ...
Hog Law
Refers to ICC service regulation which limits continuous duty to 12 hours. A crew "goes dead" after 12 hours and must be relieved by a "dog catcher" crew.
Hogger ...
Hog
Slang term for a locomotive; yard switchers are often referred to as "yard hogs."
Hogger ...
Hog Law
The federal stature which provides that all train and engine crews must be relieved of duty after 12 hours of continuous service.
Hold Track ...
Use a hog-bristle brush to apply the chalk to the model using quick short brush strokes. Start light and add more if you wish.
Hog A locomotive Hoghead, Hogger A railroad engineer Horsepower per Trailing Ton. The total horsepower of all working locomotives divided by the total trailing weight of the train in tons.
Hog - Slang for a locomotive, yard switchers also called yard hogs.
Homasote - A pressed paperboard often used for roadbed.
Home Cars - Freight cars owned by the railroad.
Home Signal - The signal protecting the immediate block.
HOG
TRAINZ. A utility which can be used to import terrain data. That data can be real from geographical surveys, or fictional created by an external fractal maths computer program, etc.
The birds run about 1/24 scale, while the horse, cow, sheep and hog are about 1/40. Many of these and similar "tube sets" have shown up in discount stores, and they normally sell for a dollar or less.
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Nickname: "The Windy City", "The Second City", "ChiTown", "Hog Butcher for the World", "City of the Big Shoulders", "The City That Works"
Motto: "Urbs in Horto
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A federal law that limits train crew members to no more than 12 hours on duty. (Nickname: hog law.)
House track
A siding track running near a station where passengers or freight are loaded or unloaded.
Do any of your mates hog the bathroom or leave it worse for wear? If you don't have a second bathroom, this can be particularly upsetting as the toilet needs to be readily available for all those present in the house.
 See also: Signal, Track, Block, Engine, Unit
  
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