A token that recognizes his service in a unique and reverent way.
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Token
1) Authority for train to enter single line section. Of different forms including wooden staff, electric staff, tablet, key token.
2) Used to show payment of fare such as on a subway system.
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A token dispensing system consisting of a machine at each end of a single line section.
By the same token, in order for a position sensor to work properly, the train has to be located directly over the photosensor or within the beam of the IR detector.
Radio Electronic Token Block is a system of railway signalling used in the United Kingdom. It is a development of the physical token system for controlling traffic on single lines.
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Token: A physical object given to a locomotive driver to authorize him to use a particular stretch of single track.
Top and tail (UK): A train with locomotives at both ends, for ease of changing direction.
Some of you have sent me tokens of appreciation like T-shirts. Several have requested I visit them in their home towns with a couple of them even offering to put me up. Actually, they don't realize they would wind up having to put up with me.
Operation has all of the elements: a playing board (your layout) with multiple paths to success (trains), tokens (your rolling stock), a card deck to choose from (your waybills), and probability (will we make the meet?).
Short-distance, high-density passenger service usually characterized by electric propulsion, fare payment by token, magnetic card, or cash, and operation under, above, and on streets.
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The NMRA has established a Recommended Practice, RP-11, to guide the modeler on what radius curves the various lengths of locomotives and rolling stock should have to work successfully. By the same token, ...
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 See also: Train, Track, Point, Locomotive, Switch
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