Unit Rules
Rangers and other frontiersmen armed with rifles may operate in small groups, but regular soldiers armed with muskets must fight in units. You must have at least one officer for every fifteen regular soldiers.
B unit (US): A cabless booster locomotive, controlled via MU from a cab-equipped A unit. Sometimes equipped with limited controls for hostling.[4][5][6] ...
A Unit (AKA Lead Unit)
A locomotive unit equipped with a cab and operating controls.
A/C Locomotive ...
E unit: a General Motors Electro-Motive Division (EMD) six-axle streamlined passenger locomotive of the 1930s-'60s.
EMD: abbreviation for Electro-Motive Division of General Motors, manufacturer of prototype locomtives.
Road Unit - A diesel locomotive built specifically for mainline service. the wheels and axles are of a more heavy duty design, and the gearing of the traction motors are more appropriate to the higher speeds.
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.
Unload ...
Unit
Commonly, a single machine (usually a diesel-electric), characterized by a single frame and a coupler at each end; technically, the smallest indivisible portion of a locomotive, ...
Unit train
A freight train that carries a single commodity from source to destination and returns empty.
USRA ...
Unit of measure used to indicate how much track is between two places.
e.g. Twelve route miles of single track would be the same as 12 track miles, but 12 route miles of quadruple (4 lines) track would be 48 track miles.
Track Possession ...
Unit trains, even when long, are consistent with their weight. The weight is generally uniformly spread throughout the entire train. In most cases, the equipment is all the same as well.
Unit
1. Carload unit (for non-intermodal traffic)
2. Trailer or container unit (for intermodal traffic)
3. Measure of rail volume ...
Unit Train
A consist of freight cars, usually dedicated to a single commodity and/or origin and destination, which customarily is not broken-up except for special maintenance work on a component. (For passenger trains, see "Train Set.")
USRA ...
Unit trains are examples of captive equipment, which travel between two locations in dedicated service.
A unit propelled by any form of energy or a combination of such units operated from a single control, used in train or yard service.
Engineman
The driver or operator of a locomotive. Also called engineer.
The unit of measure for electrical flow, can be thought of loosely as the electrical equivalent to litres per second
Analogue Control ...
The smoke unit and all the fake fire lights for the structure should be controlled with one switch. This will prevent you from forgetting to turn off the smoke unit.
Each detector unit uses approximately 30 milliamps of current if the EAST, WEST and the time delay LED's are all used.
A Unit
RAILWAYS. A locomotive with a cab, which can optionally be used with a cabless booster locomotive called a B unit. A common example is the F7A which can optionally be operated with an F7B.
A1 Class
RAILWAYS. A type of steam locomotive.
We also have the E unit, similar in appearance to the F unit, except it has A1A trucks. They also have 2 diesel engines in them, to give them more HP.
EA,EB,E1A,E1B,E2A,E2B 1800HP
E8A,E8B 2250 HP E9A,E9B 2400 HP ...
ECU (Electronic Control Unit) The computer that controls all electronic functions and operations of the train. Each car in a consist has it's own ECU, which communicates with the other ECUs in the consist.
Normal track current is AC which causes the solenoid to reverse directions of "pull" 60 times a second causing the unit to buzz slightly in neutral (see MOTOR DESIGN for further discussion).
In Europe only used for Multiple Unit trains and specialised types of rolling stock. The proposed UIC autocoupler was shelved in the 1970s due to cost but Germany and France are currently carrying out trials of a traction only autocoupler.
The air hose marked ACT or BR CYL enables the lead unit to control the trailing units brakes Branch A portion of a division designated by a timetable. Rules and instructions pertaining to subdivisions apply on branches.
Capacitor Discharge Unit (CDU) : An electrical devise for solenoid point motors. Giving a very short but intense burst of power to the motor when switched.
On another occasiont when I had been at Norton about 3 weeks, Westmoreland Coal Company at Appalachia loaded a 100 car unit train destined for the Walnut Cove Steam Plant (S. Boston, VA).
EOT End Of Train unit (see also Caboose). An EOT transmits brake pipe pressure to the lead unit (head end locomotive), ...
CDU Capacitor discharge unit. Used to store power so that several point motors may be fired simultaneously. Chairs The base into which bullhead rail is laid in order to attach it to the sleepers.
In this country, usually expressed as a percentage of rise — that is a rise of 1" in every 100" (or any other unit) is equal to a 1% grade; 2 in 100 = 2%, and so forth.
Movement: The bases of a unit must start and end each move in contact with each other. All units may move OR fire every turn. If bases are in contact with enemy bases after movement, they must fight.
The unit has a 3/8" square output shaft with lots of torque when four to twelve volts is supplied. The ammeter indicated less than 1/4 ampere of current as I tried to keep that square shaft from turning. I had no excuse.
Diesel multiple unit. Diesel-powered passenger vehicles that replaced steam engines on non-express (suburban, rural, commuter) railway lines.
First, read the installation instructions for the sound unit, and identify the components. Then remove the coal or wood load from the tender, or remove the body from the loco, or remove the roof from the boxcar.
Reinsert the clear plastic windows and lights in the cab, then apply the unit numbers in the cab marker lights. Then take the shell assembly and gently slide it back onto the frame and handrails. Now you are ready to slide the cab back onto the shell.
The system is composed of (1) a card reader/punch which functions as an input/output device, (2) a central processing unit (CPU) which is where the actual computing is done, (3) a printer which is an output device, ...
A block which spans joints and fills the space between adjacent rails at the heel of a switch, joined with outside splice bars by continuous bolts to form a unit joint. Also serves as a foot guard.
Heel length.
TERMINAL"Railway Post Office unit, usually at or near the railroad station, where mail is removed from sacks, sorted, and forwarded to its ultimate destination ...
Remove the switch inside of the compartment if one exists by disconnecting the wire and pulling the unit out of the train. If there is no switch installed, ignore this step.
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 See also: Track, Train, Engine, Point, Current
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