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.
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Unit train
A freight train that carries a single commodity from source to destination and returns empty.
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Unit train
A train carrying a single bulk commodity, such as coal or grain, from one shipper to one consignee without any switching or classification en route.
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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.
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Freight trains moving great tonnages of a single bulk product between two points without intermediate yarding and switching. Such trains cut costs because they eliminate intermediate stops in yards and reduce cycle times.
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.")
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Unit trains are examples of captive equipment, which travel between two locations in dedicated service.
Many multiple unit trains consist of cars which are semi-permanently coupled into sets; these sets may be joined together to form larger trains, but generally passengers can only move around between cars within a set.
Unit Train A train composed entirely of one commodity, usually coal or mineral, and usually composed of cars of a single owner and similar design, and usually destined for a single destination.
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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).
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.
A term used in the USA for a small power and brake controller provided for the driver at certain positions on a locomotive or multiple unit train for shunting movements where the expense of a driver's cab is not considered necessary.
A coach on a multiple-unit train which does not incorporate driving motors.
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Past Callboard offerings have touted single unit passenger trains -- gas electrics and doodle bugs. The cable car is a single unit train with a two man crew; gripman and conductor. Skunk trains on the Cal Western ran with a crew only half that size.
Unit Another term for a locomotive engine. Unit Train A train composed entirely of one commodity, usually coal or mineral, and usually composed of cars of a single owner and similar design, and usually destined for a single destination.
Loop with spur and three inner sidings. A nice railway for using your operating accessories! Of course, it's still too small for anything more than three unit trains ,and that means very small units,.
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Multiple-unit train control (US), Multiple working (UK): generally seen as the abbreviation MU, this normally refers to the ability of diesel and electric locomotives or multiple units to be joined together and controlled from one driving station.
 See also: Unit, Train, Operation, Track, Engine
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