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  • Thumbnail for Switcher locomotive
    switcher locomotive (American English), shunter locomotive (British English), or shifter locomotive (Pennsylvania Railroad terminology) is a locomotive used...
    12 KB (1,342 words) - 11:10, 18 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rail yard
    unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or unused locomotives stored off the main line, so...
    11 KB (1,373 words) - 16:16, 13 June 2024
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    Bailey Yard is the world's largest railroad classification yard. Employees sort, service and repair locomotives and cars headed all across North America...
    9 KB (948 words) - 17:52, 7 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Union Pacific Railroad
    UPP, UPY) is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles (51,800 km) routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago...
    84 KB (7,773 words) - 21:47, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Slug (railroad)
    low-speed operations such as switching operations in yards. At low speeds, a diesel-electric locomotive prime mover is capable of producing more electricity...
    9 KB (1,232 words) - 22:16, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cardiff West Yard Locomotive Works
    West Yard Works was the Taff Vale Railway's locomotive repair and construction factory. It was located in Cardiff between Bute Street and the Glamorganshire...
    4 KB (483 words) - 21:17, 30 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Classification yard
    classification yards. Flat yards are constructed on flat ground, or on a gentle slope, not enough to allow a free-fall operation without locomotives. Freight...
    11 KB (1,299 words) - 01:41, 9 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Locomotive
    A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. If a locomotive is capable of carrying a payload, it is...
    56 KB (6,333 words) - 21:13, 18 June 2024
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    Terminal tractor (redirect from Yard truck)
    spotter truck, spotting tractor, yard truck, yard shifter, yard dog, yard goat, yard horse, yard mule, yard jockey, yard spotter, hostler, or mule, is a...
    3 KB (349 words) - 18:47, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Steam locomotive
    A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.: 80  It is fuelled by...
    145 KB (17,775 words) - 01:00, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diesel locomotive
    A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the power source is a diesel engine. Several types of diesel locomotives have been developed...
    91 KB (11,367 words) - 17:00, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for CSX 8888 incident
    cars. But, as is normal for intra-yard movements, the air brakes of the train were disconnected from the locomotive and thus were not functional. Furthermore...
    13 KB (1,191 words) - 13:06, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction railway station
    in Mughalsarai include electric locomotive shed holding 147 locomotives, diesel locomotive shed holding 53 locomotives, wagon ROH shed, and a 169-bed divisional...
    15 KB (1,252 words) - 13:45, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Junee railway station
    railway station precinct includes the station building (1883), yard and the locomotive depot/roundhouse (1943–47). A good example of a Victorian Italianate...
    25 KB (3,068 words) - 06:47, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Road switcher locomotive
    road switcher locomotive is a type of railroad locomotive designed to both haul railcars in mainline service and shunt them in railroad yards. Both type...
    10 KB (1,445 words) - 09:05, 25 January 2024
  • Rocks yard, the P&LE interchanged with the PC&Y. However, the PC&Y facilities were just behind the P&LE Locomotive facilities in the main yard, and trackage...
    28 KB (2,786 words) - 19:20, 24 March 2024
  • The Great Locomotive Chase is a 1956 American adventure western film produced by Walt Disney Productions, based on the Great Locomotive Chase that occurred...
    19 KB (2,217 words) - 00:22, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wath marshalling yard
    the yard and was situated by the station. The yard could handle as many as 5,000 wagons per day. Initially the yard did not have major locomotive stabling...
    9 KB (1,342 words) - 00:36, 7 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Dynamic braking
    default to rheostatic mode in order to provide the braking effect. Yard locomotives with onboard energy storage systems which allow the recovery of some...
    12 KB (1,386 words) - 03:00, 10 February 2024
  • classification yard in Northern Pennsylvania, an AWVR train led by locomotive 777 (Triple 7) leaves the yard unattended, heading south at full speed down the main...
    46 KB (4,746 words) - 21:55, 19 June 2024
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