marshalling yard
A hump yard (or: marshalling yard, classification yard) is a railroad yard found at some freight train stations, ...
A marshalling yard used in hump shunting.
Hydrostatic Lubricator
A small amount of steam is taken from the regulator when open and fed into a condensing coil (usually mounted on the cab roof), ...
(UK: marshalling yard.)UoS Alternator Rotating machine for generating alternating current.
Ladder - American term for marshalling yard or siding layout where series of points on switches follow each other giving leads off a straight line to one side.
Ladder - Term sometimes given to rack rail of mountain railway system.
An Intermodal Yard is a marshalling yard where the containers are loaded onto trains or taken off them and where trains consisting of such containers are made up.
Interurban
RAILWAYS.
South of the N&W is a large Ford marshalling yard. Finished autos from the plant are driven here and parked awaiting disposition.
Also known as master and slave, as in the British Rail Class 13 shunters at Tinsley Marshalling Yard.
Cowl unit (US): A locomotive whose sides and roof are non-structural, and cover the full width of the locomotive.
 See also: Siding, Point, Track, Train, Locomotive
  
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