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Interchange - Junction tracks that permit trains or rolling stock to reciprocally travel from one railroad to another.

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interchange station in British English, also known as a transfer station in American English, is a train station for more than one railway route in a passenger transport system.

Interchange track. A track used for the transfer of cars from one railroad to another.

Interchange
A track on which various cars are delivered or received from one railroad to another, also the point where passengers or freight are exchanged between trains.
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Interchange
A junction of two railroads where cars are transferred from one line to the other.
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Interchange with other railroads off-line is through the use of car-routing to specific trains.

Interchange
An important traffic source for almost all railroads is interchange (transferring freight cars between railroads or lines of the same railroad). Even the Alaska Railroad receives foreign-road cars via a car float.

Interchange Agreement
Agreement between a railroad and a drayage company that allows a specific drayage company to drop off or pick up railroad or private intermodal equipment at the said railroad's facilities.

Interchange
The exchange of cars between railroads at specified junction points.
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Interchange Point The point at which two or more railroads join. Traffic is passed from one road to another at interchange points.

Smoke liquids currently available can be used interchangeably in liquid smoke units. Additionally some new liquids are designed to give off specific scents such as the smell of original Lionel smoke pellets.

Gateway See Interchange Point Gauge Broad gauge (Spain): 1674 mm 5'5 9/10th" Broad gauge (Portugal): 1665 mm 5'5 11/20th" Broad gauge (Ireland): 1600 mm 5'3" Broad gauge (Finland): 1524 mm 5' exactly Broad gauge (former USSR): 1520 mm 5' Standard ...

Under Southern management, the former Interstate had taken 8 to 10 hours to triple (make three trips) to get 100 car unit trains from Appalachia to Norton and interchange them to the N&W.

Interchange A station where passenger may alight from one train and board another on a different route. In the US it is referred to as a "transfer". Interlocking In signalling, a system to prevent the setting up of conflicting routes.

Interchange - Point, where passengers or freight are exchanged between trains.
Interchange Point - A location where cars switch from one road to another.

They host two separate railways which interchange in the yard at the bottom. While able to stand alone, our layouts can also be made as extensions for an existing pike. Scenery illustrated here is but one of the myriad possibilities.

Clay Gun
An extruding tool made from die-cast steel. Interchangeable discs provide a simple way to make textural details such as leaves, rope, bricks and tubes from modelling putty or polymer clay.

Module: A section of a layout built following a standard pattern or dimensions. Each module can be connected interchangeably with any other module built to the same standards.

This term is sometimes interchanged for "scale," as the letters in model railroad scales often stand for a common measurement. For instance, N scale originated in Europe as a "N"ine millimeter gauge modeling system. back to top ...

Basic Waybills
Follow a Car Routed with Waybills
Model an Interchange
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Satellite image of a wye where two approaches to the interchange have been abandoned
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  The Lakeside and Pine Valley narrow gauge railroad is located in the south east corner of the building. It serves mining and logging areas and interchanges with the standard gauge railroad at Lakeside.

Car Service Rules
Rules established by agreement between railroads in connection with the interchange of cars, dealing primarily with the selection of cars for loading and the return of foreign cars to the home road, loaded or empty.

Connection between rail lines, with at least one being two or more tracks, in which ramps and bridges carry one line over another to reduce conflicts. Similar to a freeway interchange.
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Walthers offers the Amtrak Horizon cars in HO scale. However they are out of production and are getting harder to find at this time. The best place to get the cars are eBay or a yahoo groups such as HOInterchange.

Some layouts have staging yards underneath the main layout, or above the main layout accessible by a helix. They don't have to be hidden, however, if you use it as an interchange between two main rail systems on your layout.

Graphics Interchange Format. Compressed graphics (non-lossy). GIF files can be animated (by means of multiple frames). GIF files can have one colour specified as being transparent. A standard Windows file type.
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See also: Train, Track, Operation, Switch, Point

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