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In the Old World, long-billed species tend to be called rails and short-billed species crakes. North American species are normally called rails irrespective of bill length. The smallest of these is Swinhoe's rail, at 13 cm (5.1 in) and 25 g. The larger species are also sometimes given other names.
Rail Link (operates 26 short line railroads) RLIX Housatonic Railroad (HRRC) (CT, MA, NY) HRRC Idaho Northern & Pacific Railroad (ID and OR) INPR Kankakee, Beaverville and Southern Railroad (IL and IN) KBSR New York New Jersey Rail (NJ and NY) NYNJ Pend Oreille Valley Railroad (ID and WA) POVA St Lawrence & Atlantic Railroad (ME, NH, and VT) SLA
It was reported in 2009 that shortline railroads employ 20,000 people in the U.S., and own 30 percent of the nation's railroad tracks. About a quarter of all U.S. rail freight travels at least a small part of its journey over a short-line railroad. [4
Oil Fields Short Line Railroad: 1916 1923 N/A Oil Belt Terminal Railway: ATSF: 1914 1915 Oil Fields and Santa Fe Railway: Okarche Central Railway: OCRI 1982 1982 Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad: Oklahoma Belt Railroad: 1917 1944 N/A Oklahoma Central Railroad: OCR 1987 1988 N/A Oklahoma Central Railroad: ATSF: 1914 1942 Atchison, Topeka and ...
Two models of the Brill railcar were operated by the South Australian Railways between 1925 and 1971. Introduced to run on country rail services, the "Barwell Bulls" serviced most of the state's railway lines until they were eventually replaced by both the Bluebird and Redhen railcars.
Platform track and run-round loop at Toyooka Station, Hyōgo, Japan, the terminus of the line from Miyazu. A headshunt (or escape track in the United States) is a short length of track provided to release locomotives at terminal platforms, or to allow shunting to take place clear of main lines.
The Tahiti rail, Tahitian red-billed rail, or Pacific red-billed rail (Hypotaenidia pacifica) is an extinct species of rail that lived on Tahiti.It was first recorded during James Cook's second voyage around the world (1772–1775), on which it was illustrated by Georg Forster and described by Johann Reinhold Forster.
The seriemas are terrestrial birds which run rather than fly (though they are able to fly for short distances). They have long legs, necks, and tails, but only short wings, reflecting their way of life. They are brownish birds with short bills and erectile crests and are found on fairly dry open grasslands. Red-legged seriema, Cariama cristata