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    Ballast is dense material used as a weight to provide stability to a vehicle or structure. Ballast, other than cargo, may be placed in a vehicle, often...
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  • Tampa, Florida, US Electrical ballast, used to stabilize the current flow in lamps Ballast tractor, a heavy-haulage road vehicle designed to pull or push...
    997 bytes (182 words) - 16:50, 19 November 2023
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    A ballast tractor is a specially weighted tractor unit of a heavy hauler combination. It is designed to utilize a drawbar to pull or push heavy or exceptionally...
    17 KB (1,769 words) - 23:09, 28 October 2024
  • Ballast Nedam is a Dutch-based construction and engineering company headquartered in Nieuwegein. The company resulted from a merger between Amsterdamse...
    8 KB (832 words) - 12:26, 25 October 2024
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    Ballast Point is a 2.6-hectare (6-acre) urban park located in Birchgrove at the tip of the Balmain Peninsula in the Inner West Council local government...
    8 KB (754 words) - 03:00, 28 October 2023
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    Tractor unit (redirect from Road Tractor)
    and very heavy-duty typically off-road-capable, often 6×6, military and commercial tractor units, including ballast tractors. It should not be confused...
    9 KB (1,065 words) - 01:36, 5 August 2024
  • when used, or sold for use, by the mine owner or operator as rip rap, ballast, road material, rubble, concrete aggregates, or for similar purposes. For...
    9 KB (689 words) - 15:29, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ballast Island (Seattle)
    Ballast Island was a small artificial island located on the Seattle Waterfront during the late 1800s. Frequent illegal dumping of ballast led to the designation...
    19 KB (2,043 words) - 19:25, 12 October 2024
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    body may be ballasted with water or sand, or for extra compaction wet sand is used. Modern tyre rollers may be filled with steel ballast, which gives...
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    caught in a hurricane near Bimini and built the Bimini Road from beach rock and the ships' ballast as a slipway to haul damaged junks ashore for refitting...
    34 KB (4,584 words) - 01:28, 28 October 2024
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    Rail transport (redirect from Rail road)
    longer than road vehicles. The rails and ties are usually placed on a foundation made of compressed earth on top of which is placed a bed of ballast to distribute...
    109 KB (12,441 words) - 22:39, 5 November 2024
  • use hauling and powering funfair rides A ballast tractor, the modern diesel-powered equivalent of the steam road locomotive (US) A railway locomotive intended...
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    Railway gun Troop sleeper Adzer/Cribber Anchor machine Ballast cleaner Ballast regulator Ballast tamper Catenary maintenance vehicle Clearance car Comboliner...
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  • M20 (redirect from M20 road)
    American anti-tank rocket launcher M20 SLBM, a French nuclear missile M20 ballast tractor, the power source of the M19 tank recovery system M20 TBM, a Chinese...
    2 KB (355 words) - 06:50, 7 October 2024
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    the breakwaters. A variant of baulk road can still be seen today on some older under-line bridges where no ballast is provided. The design varies considerably...
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  • Former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University Ros Ballaster, Professor of 18th Century Literature at Mansfield College, University...
    446 KB (296 words) - 18:22, 14 November 2024
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    Nicolas Tractomas (category Cab over off-road vehicles)
    Tractomas is a heavy-duty built-to-order ballast tractor specifically to tow hydraulic modular trailers and road trains used for movement of oversize loads...
    9 KB (813 words) - 00:50, 23 July 2024
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    Milwaukee. Commodities can range from grain and chemicals to lumber and ballast. Cambria Subdivision (former MILW) – Runs from Cambria to Horicon. Oshkosh...
    15 KB (1,508 words) - 17:03, 13 November 2024
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    have sleepers (railroad ties) at a closer spacing and a greater depth of ballast to accommodate the increased forces exerted in the curve. At the ends of...
    18 KB (2,205 words) - 18:17, 16 November 2024
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    enjoys substantial tax privileges has contributed to the growing emissions. Ballast water discharges by ships can have a negative impact on the marine environment...
    65 KB (7,450 words) - 21:16, 15 November 2024
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