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  • Thomas the Tank Engine is an anthropomorphised fictional tank locomotive in the British Railway Series books by Wilbert Awdry and his son, Christopher...
    24 KB (2,611 words) - 16:56, 2 September 2024
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    billionaire Mr. Wilford, the train consists of 1,001 carriages and circles the globe 2.7 times per year. The constant motion of the train provides energy and...
    194 KB (12,855 words) - 04:25, 16 September 2024
  • track twists from the horizontal plane into the vertical plane, tipping the train to the side in the direction of the turn. Banking is used to minimize...
    57 KB (6,729 words) - 13:56, 12 September 2024
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    trains had brakes operative on the locomotive tender and on vehicles in the train, where "porters" or, in the United States brakemen, travelling for the...
    38 KB (4,602 words) - 21:31, 25 August 2024
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    mechanical linkage to brake shoes that can rub on the train wheels, using the resulting friction to slow the train. The mechanical linkage can become quite elaborate...
    30 KB (4,328 words) - 11:34, 5 September 2024
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    Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) that operated until 2009. The train traveled the length of continental Europe, with terminal stations in Paris...
    39 KB (4,689 words) - 20:01, 3 September 2024
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    energy at high speeds. Maglev trains have set several speed records. The train speed record of 603 km/h (375 mph) was set by the experimental Japanese...
    162 KB (15,987 words) - 01:10, 8 September 2024
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    operational and safety duties that do not involve actual operation of the train/locomotive. The conductor title is most common in North American railway...
    38 KB (5,258 words) - 09:29, 14 September 2024
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    each section of a rail network (e.g. a signalman or stationmaster) to the train crew. The set of rules and the physical equipment used to accomplish this...
    45 KB (5,955 words) - 09:59, 19 August 2024
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    lifted to an elevated point or peak in the track. Upon reaching the peak, the train is then propelled from the peak by gravity and is usually allowed to coast...
    10 KB (1,402 words) - 06:26, 26 March 2024
  • variety of bizarre, fantastical, and impossible environments. Passengers on the train proceed from car to car by completing challenges which help them resolve...
    77 KB (7,503 words) - 21:50, 9 September 2024
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    (1983), Head Office (1985), Ruthless People (1986), Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Twins (1988), The War of the Roses (1989), Batman Returns (1992)...
    48 KB (4,827 words) - 23:24, 29 August 2024
  • Bholu the Train Manager (Train Guard) is the mascot of Indian Railways, represented as a cartoon of an elephant holding a signal lamp with a green lens...
    5 KB (447 words) - 22:55, 15 August 2024
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    and another was standing on a platform as the train moved past. As measured by the standing observer, the train is struck by two bolts of lightning simultaneously...
    21 KB (2,668 words) - 20:46, 22 May 2024
  • from the train. Patterson and the other black teenagers were able to ward off the group. The humiliated white teenagers jumped or were forced off the train...
    104 KB (14,128 words) - 22:11, 14 September 2024
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    locomotive which brought the train into the station and then either using another track to "run it around" to the other end of the train, to which it then re-attaches;...
    47 KB (4,947 words) - 01:21, 13 September 2024
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    provided the train crew with a shelter at the rear of the train. The crew could exit the train for switching or to protect the rear of the train when stopped...
    26 KB (3,396 words) - 03:19, 14 August 2024
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    time this made it the fastest train service in commercial operation. The train line connects Shanghai Pudong International Airport (also on Shanghai...
    31 KB (3,037 words) - 15:18, 15 September 2024
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    otherwise assigned to the train operator. The degree of automation is indicated by the Grade of Automation (GoA), up to GoA4 in which the train is automatically...
    37 KB (2,497 words) - 19:35, 29 August 2024
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    the train takes the Empire Corridor through Rochester and Syracuse to Albany–Rensselaer station in Rensselaer, New York. At that station, the train divides...
    30 KB (2,676 words) - 21:30, 22 July 2024
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