Railroad

Railroad

A railroad is a means of wheeled transportation for moving people and goods. Railroads are tracks on which trains can tow cars behind an engine.

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Bolted rail crossing

Railways; Railroad

A railroad crossing assembled from rolled rail with bolted connexions as distinguished from solid cast crossing frogs.

Roadway

Railways; Railroad

The part of a railway prepared to receive track. During construction the roadway is often referred to as the grade.

Bond plug

Railways; Railroad

A piece of metal resembling a tapered rivet, used to fasten a bond wire to a rail.

Rolling stock

Railways; Railroad

Anything with wheels on it which can run on the track including locomotives, carriages, goods wagons, and maintenance vehicles.

Dating from the Superpower steam engine days. The booster was located on the rear axle of the trailing truck (usually) or the fore axle of the forward truck on the tender. Most booster engines were ...

Gotthard base tunnel

Railways; Railroad

Currently the world's longest at 35.4-mile (57-kilometer), the Gotthard Base Tunnel through the Swiss Alps was first conceived in 1947 by engineer Eduard Gruner. The project lasted for more than a ...

Absolute blocking

Railways; Railroad

A control arrangement for rail traffic in which a track is divided into sections or blocks upon which a train may not enter until the preceding train has left.