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Maintenance-Of-Way

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Maintenance-of-Way.
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A flatcar equipped with decks, walls, roof and end doors for transporting automobiles and light trucks on two or three levels. Also referred to as an auto rack.

 


Maintenance-of-Way Equipment
Machinery and rolling stock used to keep track and roadbed in good operating condition.
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MOW: Maintenance-of-way equipment. Used by a railroad to keep track and roadbed in good condition.
Operation: Running trains on a model railroad layout in a way that simulates real railroad activity.

A small building used for storing the section motor car or hand car, maintenance-of-way tools, and other equipment of a section gang.
Separator, adjustable.

Maintenance-Of-Way - (MOW) Equipment used by a railroad to keep track and roadbed in good condition.
Mallet - An articulated steam locomotive named after the designer; sometimes used to describe any articulated locomotive.

The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the accident was caused by a hot-weather "sun kink" misalignment of the track due to inadequate CSX maintenance-of-way, and stated that equipment and track damages totaled about $8.3 million.

Updated - O / O27 Freight Department - non-animated freight and maintenance-of-way rolling stock (Under Construction)
O / O27 Passenger Liners - passenger cars, transit and commuter trains (Under Construction) ...

Section tool house. A small building used for storing the section motor car or hand car, maintenance-of-way tools, and other equipment of a section gang.

Passenger cars and cabooses are also fairly common, with occasional freight and maintenance-of-way cars offered. The main appeal of these models is that well-made ones will be exact models of particular prototypes with a high level of detail.

See also: Track, Ballast, Engine, Locomotive, Rail