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Our passenger train is quite stunning, with the locomotive's brass trim and the faded blue of the coaches. It is a 4-4-0 American type by Hartland Locomotive Works.
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The publishers of Railroad Explorer have brought forth an amazing offering for both the Delaware & Hudson fan and the passenger train fan.
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Passenger trains operated on a regular schedule (as opposed to steam runs which are popular today) can be of three types.
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Passenger trains usually have emergency brake handles (or a "communication cord") that the public can operate. Abuse is punished by a heavy fine.
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Passenger trains were important and often the glamorous darlings of railroad management. However, at various times and places the philosophy of THINK SMALL took hold.
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- Passenger trains - Many of these have had fancy names as marketing gimmicks. They usually lost money for the railroad, but were used as marketing tools for the more profitable freight business.
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LINER" Passenger trainLINK AND PIN"Old-time type of coupler; used to denote oldfashioned methods of railroading LIZARD SCORCHER"Dining- car chef ...
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Plug run Passenger train of low stature. Pooling agreement Under a pooling agreement, railroads are operated separately but all income is divided arbitrarily, irrespective of traffic carried.
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1. The rights of passenger trains over freight and of express trains over locals. 2. The right of way in one direction on a single track line. 3. The common meaning of length of service of an employee. Service Application ...
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RT Advanced Passenger Train (APT) High speed tilting train, abandoned by British Rail in the early 1980s. A version of the the technology was later used by the Italians who produced a tilting train design known as "Pendolino".
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A power system installed on diesel-electric passenger locomotives, used to generate "hotel load" power to the passenger train, including train heating and air conditioning.
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on World War II PT boats) were integral to the design of the EMD SD24, and retrofitted (both at the factory and on an aftermarket basis) to other locomotives such as the GP7, GP9, and CF7 (typically when the units were placed into passenger train ...
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baggage car — a car for the carriage of passenger's baggage or express shipments in passenger trains. Usually with one to three large side doors and few if any windows.
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On passenger trains, for example, the guard is the person who closes any open doors on the train and signals to the driver that the train is ready to depart by blowing a whistle.
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: A member of a freight or passenger train crew. His duties are to assist the conductor in any way. : Minor line acting as a feeder to main line. See Also: : Top railroad executive; A V.I.P; President or boss of the line.
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A system for piping steam, for heating purposes, through a passenger train, or a train including banana vans. Where a train fitted with this apparatus is diesel or electric hauled, a special boiler is incorporated in the locomotive. Steam Pipe ...
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The L&N and Southern maintained a small depot in the wye at Appalachia, but passenger trains were few and far-between.
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Working Timetable : A time table used by railway operators, which includes the times of all regularly-run trains (not just passenger trains). Wye : Type of turnout where the two legs curve away equilaterally, forming a Y.
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Varnish Term used to refer to passenger trains, dating back to the late 19th century and the varnished passenger coaches of the luxury trains such as those employed on the LV's Black Diamond and the C&O's Sportsman W ...
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 See also: Track, Train, Engine, Locomotive, Switch
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