Service Track
Track on which engines take on coal, water, and sand, as necessary.
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Full service trackage rights
An arrangement where one railroad (the tenant) operates its trains over the tracks of another railroad (the owner), and may directly serve customers located along the segment of owner's track that the tenant is using.
Bombardier coaches on the service track
Old freight building to the right, yards to the left
MOW hopper and Bombardier coach. These side tracks are distant from platforms. ...
The 1978 layout had a six-track freight yard and a locomotive service track.
This was the second move for the 1978 layout. It had been shortened to 10 feet long. The "engineer" is the son of a co-worker visiting the railroad in 1982.
Pusher (N&W-Engineer only) on the units at Appalachia, pushed an eastbound coal train out of Appalachia to Norton, left the units on the rear, continued on to Carbo where the units went to the "Spark Track" (N&W for engine service track) to ...
 See also: Engine, Track, Car, Switch, Yard
  
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