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Train Layout Design Elements for Track Planning
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TRAIN RUNNERS OF NORTH AMERICA
Too many people have a horde of O and 027 gauge trains stashed away for the day when they have room to build a layout.
Profiteering and corruption immediately fell off and trains began to move in an expedient way. Southern railroads, however, were routinely impressed into the service of the national government whenever Southern territory was taken by Union troops.
Wire Trains
Another type of work extra was seen only on heavy electric railroads: the wire train, used for maintenance and repair of the catenary.
Audible Train Approach Warning Circuit
This is a circuit that will give an audible warning that a train is entering a particular section of track. The detector also has a LED that indicates when a train is entering or leaving the block.
N&W Train Symbols
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Train-control system in which the use of each section of track, called a block, is governed by signals that are either controlled manually or by block-limit signals, or both, upon receipt of information by phone or other means of communication.
Train dispatching conducted at one location for several or all of a railroad's designated operating divisions.
Culvert
A passageway under tracks for the drainage of water.
Train Set (also Trainset)
In real railroading, the term applied to a passenger train consist-often including the engine(s)-which customarily is not broken up except for special work on a component.
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Unit Train - A freight train consisting of one type of freight car, usually hopper cars for carrying coal or grain. Unit trains are seldom, broken up, and tend to operate continuously from loading to unloading point.
Train set: a train sold as such by its manufacturer, with or without track and transformer.
TRAIN LINE"Pipe that carries compressed air to operate air brakes
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Train sounds are harder to find, especially sounds that are reasonably correct for the era and road you are modeling. I used sounds from two CD-ROMs by Sandia Software and a couple of tapes and a 45 RPM record found in a second hand store.
P-train: An NMBS/SNCB commuter train.
Pacific: A steam locomotive with a 4-6-2 wheel arrangement.
Pannier tank: A tank locomotive with the water tanks mounted on the boiler like panniers.
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You can buy nonskid tape in 2 or 6 inch wide tape and makes nice black top road and then you get white detail tape for cars and it makes a nice white line down the center of the road.
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Trains form only a small part of the world around us. A railroad is a narrow ribbon of twin steel running between cities, industries and yards.
Train on a siding waiting for another train to pass.
IND
INDependent City Subway - subdivision B-2 of the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) subway system.
Trains That Are Brio Compatible
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Train service employee who assists with train and yard operations.
Brake Pawl (Hand Brake)
A small, specially shaped, steel piece, pivoted to engage the teeth of a brake ratchet wheel to prevent turning backward, and thus releasing the brakes.
Train that, by design, transports a dedicated commodity or type of cars. In the case of intermodal shipments, trains only carry trailers and/or containers.
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Trainspotter
A person, almost invariably a male human being with a limited social life, who sits, anorak-clad, in the cold and rain with a notebook, recording the passing of every train. Called railfans in the US.
Trains of empty log cars take the Hill Line to the woods (really a staging track) and return from the mill via the Main Line. Loaded log cars take the Main Line to the mill (another stage track) and come down from the woods via the Hill Line.
Train. A locomotive with or without cars and displaying markers.
Truss.
A train not authorized by a timetable schedule.
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A train moving within Yard Limits under a Block Signal indication (i.e. in ABS or CTC territory) more favorable than "Approach" does not have to move at Restricted Speed.
The train is stopped several yards from the switch. The engine and the car to be dropped is uncoupled from the main part of the train, and the brake reservoir on the car to be dropped is emptied.
Automatic train control.
Audit Number
Specific identifying number assigned to a railroad station.
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Pedler Freight Train - A freight train that switches cars at most of the towns along its route.
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Also simply where a train or item if rolling stock is.
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Locomotive Decoder
Electronic device that receives the DCC signal from the command station through the track, decodes it and tells the locomotive it is controlling, what to do.
Dwell Time The total elapsed time from the time that a train stops in a station (usually for the purpose of discharging and loading passengers) until the time it resumes moving.
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Absolute Block A length of track in which no train or engine is permitted to enter while it is occupied by another train or engine.
RT Acceptance In UK railway signalling terms, 'acceptance' means the permission given by a signalman for a train to enter the section of line he controls.
Gladhand The metal attachments to which train line air hoses connect Goat A yard engine. Grade Resistance Resistance that results from the energy you must put into a train to lift it vertically.
Crossover : A pair of turnouts arranged in such a manner as to allow a train to cross from one line to another.
Cutting : A large trench with sloping walls and railway tracks at the bottom.
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DC : Direct current.
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Generally a non-load carrying flat car or gondola car that is used in train consist for: (1) Providing space for load end overhang that extends beyond striker of load car.
Scenery Every part of a model railway apart from the baseboards, track, wiring, and trains. Scenic Break A means of dividing up a model railway to give an impression that two areas are much further apart than they really are.
Trackplan: the track design used to establish a train's potential routes through a model railroad layout. Three primary trackplan/layout types are defined here: Loops allow a continuous run without many wiring or switching complications.
Command Control
A way of controlling trains by sending electronic messages through the rails.
Compass
See Circle Cutter.
No new steam locomotives have been built in the United States since the last was delivered in September 1957. A locomotive was constructed in Great Britain in 1979 for the movie The Great Train Robbery.
 See also: Track, Locomotive, Engine, Operation, Switch
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