Superelevation (Cant) - Designed to facilitate higher railway speeds, superelevation entails banking tracks in curves to minimize car sway, reduce rail and wheel wear, and redistribute loads across both rails.
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Superelevation
Raising the outside rail of curved track to help trains negotiate curves more easily and at higher speeds.
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Superelevation Banking tracks on a curve to allow for higher speeds.
Switch A track that allows trains to swap routes.
Superelevation
On segments of curved track, the vertical distance the outer rail is raised above the inner rail to counteract the centrifugal force of moving trains.
Superheater ...
Superelevation
Amount by which one rail of a curved track is raised above the other. Superelevation is 'positive' when the outer rail is higher than the inner rail and 'negative' when the inner rail is higher than the outer.
Superheater ...
Superelevation. The height the outer rail is raised above the inner or grade rail, on curves, to resist the centrifugal force of moving trains. This should not be confused with cross level, on tangent (straight) track.
Superelevation
the slight raising of the outer rail on a curve; banking.
Switcher (also Shifter) ...
To start the superelevation, you have to form a ramp under the outside rail at the beginning of the easement to gradually increase the incline of the outside rail to a level of about 1/32 inch for HO scale, or about half that for N scale (1/64").
Track unbalanced superelevation in the U.S. is restricted to 3 inches, though 4 inches is permissible by waiver.
High rail: The upper rail in a curve or superelevation which typically experiences the higher lateral loads and greater wear.
Hogger (slang, US): A locomotive engineer.[27][30][31] ...
Techniques for Sectional Tracks
Techniques for Flexible Tracks
Curve Easements and Superelevation
Understanding Turnouts (Switches)
Details and Simple Track Projects
Ballast ...
Cross Level
The distance one rail is above or below another. This should not be confused with Superelevation on curves.
Cross Kit Model
A term used to denote a model built from major parts from two or more kits. See Kitbash ...
RAILWAYS. When track is banked, for example around a bend which is normally taken at speed, the angle of the line joining the same points on each rail with the horizontal (taken at a cross section of the track). Called superelevation in Britain.
A board with a spirit level attached, to level the rails of a track usually equipped with a series of steps to set superelevation on the outside rail of curves.
Track liner. A device designed to minimize manual labor in lining track.
 See also: Locomotive, Track, Standard, Curve, Switch
  
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