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  2. Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    International Underground Railroad Memorial in Windsor, Ontario John Brown participated in the Underground Railroad as an abolitionist. British North America (present-day Canada) was a desirable destination, as its long border gave many points of access, it was farther from slave catchers , and it was beyond the reach of the United States ...

  3. Glossary of North American railway terms - Wikipedia

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    A handcar A small, hand-powered railroad car used for track inspection Heavy rail (US) A city-based transit rail system that runs on its own dedicated track and often underground. Subways are considered heavy rail. Refers to commuter rail and inter-city rail when used by the FRA or in other countries. [132] [133] Heavyweight (US)

  4. Quilts of the Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Giles Wright, an Underground Railroad expert, asserts that the book is based upon folklore that is unsubstantiated by other sources. [3] He also said that there are no memoirs, diaries, or Works Progress Administration interviews conducted in the 1930s of ex-slaves that mention quilting codes. [4]

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    Transport and Map Symbols is a Unicode block containing transportation and map icons, largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' emoji implementations of Shift JIS, and to encode characters in the Wingdings and Wingdings 2 character sets.

  6. Glossary of rail transport terms - Wikipedia

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    Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways. Although many terms are uniform across different nations and companies, they are by no means universal, with differences often originating from parallel development of rail transport systems in different parts of the world, and in the national origins of the engineers and managers who built the inaugural rail ...

  7. Train reporting number - Wikipedia

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    Automatic Route Setting code prevents the automatic routing of trains with the letter X in their headcode and signallers must route these trains manually. The GNER White Rose service from London King's Cross to Leeds formed of a 16 carriage Regional Eurostar set ran with a prefix of 1X due to the train's unusually long length.

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  9. List of Underground Railroad sites - Wikipedia

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    Underground Railroad promoter and station master and anti-slavery lecturer. The Guy Beckley House is on the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. [43] Erastus and Sarah Hussey — Battle Creek [44] Second Baptist Church — Detroit [17] Dr. Nathan M. Thomas House — Schoolcraft [17] Wright Modlin — Williamsville, Cass County.