PASSENGER TRAINS
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Passenger train.
Link And Pin
1) Old-style type of coupler (now rarely used) was called Lincoln pin.
2) Used to denote old fashioned methods of railroading.
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.
Passenger trains operated on a regular schedule (as opposed to steam runs which are popular today) can be of three types.
Passenger trains usually have emergency brake handles (or a "communication cord") that the public can operate. Abuse is punished by a heavy fine.
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.
A passenger train. Wooden passenger cars used to be given many coats of varnish.
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LINER"Passenger train
LINK AND PIN"Old-time type of coupler; used to denote oldfashioned methods of railroading
LIZARD SCORCHER"Dining-car chef ...
Varnish
A passenger train (wooden passenger coaches used to be given a glossy coat of varnish).
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.
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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".
Head End Power 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.
A type of Amtrak electric passenger train. Acela rolling stock items are available for Trainz, at least one version of which has passenger doors which slide open (operated by the pantograph control).
Activity
TRAINZ.
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 ...
Head-End Cars - Any freight car which is coupled to the front of a passenger train.
Headshunt - A headshunt, or shunting neck, is a track running parallel with the main line, facing the yards.
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.
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.
A type of lightweight passenger train now operated by Amtrak in the Northwest. In the model world the term is applied to truck mounted couplers.
Tangent
A straight track.
The Baltimore & Ohio Cincinnatian was the first postwar streamlined passenger train. The train operated between Baltimore, Maryland and Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Cincinnatian was heralded as a deluxe all-coach steam powered daylight streamliner.
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.
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Head End Cars - Normally attached to the front of a passenger train, baggage, mail, railway post office, and express refrigerator cars are examples of head end cars.
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Usually has a turntable, loco shed or roundhouse, coaling stage or tower, water crane, etc. Multiple Unit A type of passenger train where the diesel or electric motor is built into the carriages themselves.
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.
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
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 See also: Track, Train, Engine, Locomotive, Switch
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