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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 ...
So termed by the similar appearance of the model name to the word pooch: P30CH / POOCH. [193] Position light signal (Pennsylvania) Signals made by the Pennsylvania Railroad that make use of a circular disc with up to eight lights mounted in a circle, with one light in the center. The lights would line up in a straight line to give the indication.
Baby Deltic D5900 class Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives, constructed by the English Electric company. They used a single Napier Deltic engine/generator combination, as opposed to the two-engines layout and Co-Co wheel arrangement of the much longer Deltic locomotives from the same manufacturer, to which they bore a very strong family resemblance.
The Cincinnati–Toledo route of Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad was 349 km (217 mi). A few interurbans like Philadelphia and Western Railroad adapted to high speeds with double-track, absolute block signalling and without grade crossings. Others ran at (too) high speed on single-track right-of-way without block signalling – and experienced ...
railroad tramway (obsolete) (v.) to coerce to convict with undue haste or with insufficient evidence the general term for the system of mass transit using trains running on rails: see usage of the terms railroad and railway (v.) to work on the railroad to transport by railroad see also at underground: railway
This article lists some of the terminology used at present and in the past by Australian railway employees, contractors, railway historians and railway enthusiasts.Many of the terms appear from time to time in specialist, rail-related publications.
a type of enclosed railroad freight car (UK: goods van) a three-ball "frame" for one player in candlepin bowling (New England) the genital area (ex: kicked in the box; vulgar slang) brace bracers braces over-the-shoulder straps to support trousers *(US usu. suspenders, q.v.) support that steadies or strengthens something else
A railway track (CwthE and UIC terminology) or railroad track (NAmE), also known as permanent way (CwthE) [1] or "P Way" (BrE [2] and Indian English), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers (railroad ties in American English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.