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A simple wye Countryside wye near Lüderitz, Namibia. In railroad structures and rail terminology, a wye (like the 'Y' glyph) or triangular junction (often shortened to just triangle) is a triangular joining arrangement of three rail lines with a railroad switch (set of points) at each corner connecting to the incoming lines.
A turntable for the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Turnplates at the Park Lane goods station of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1831. Early wagonways were industrial railways for transporting goods—initially bulky and heavy items, particularly mined stone, ores and coal—from one point to another, most often to a dockside to be loaded onto ships. [4]
The Keddie Wye is a railroad junction in the form of a wye on the Union Pacific Railroad in Plumas County, California, United States.Located at the town of Keddie, it joins the east-west Feather River Route and the "Inside Gateway"—formally, the BNSF Gateway Subdivision—which runs north to Bieber.
The western end of the PEIR starts in Tignish, abutting Church Street which forms the downtown axis. A wye-junction just west of the end serves as a turnaround, running north to Maple Street. The line initially runs west-southwest out of town but soon turns south towards the northern edge of the original western terminus of the line at Alberton ...
At Ceres the entire train had to be turned around, using a wye turnaround. [6] The railroad served a territory which was a beehive of industry in the early years of its existence, with sawmills, tanneries, barrel header and stave factories, grist mills, planing mills, "large deposits of glass rock" with a high percentage of silica, natural gas ...
The traffic levels of the Feather River Route fluctuated considerably between its completion in 1909 and the purchase of the Western Pacific Railroad by the Union Pacific Railroad in 1983. Between 1909 and 1918, traffic rose with the onset of World War I , although such gains vanished in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Richland Wye is the area nestled behind the Yakima River Delta and Columbia River, Highway 240 and the Richland/Kennewick border near the intersection of Columbia Park Trail and North Columbia ...
This railroad used the line from Necedah to Wyeville as part of this new route. A true railroad wye was built at the railroad crossover, along with an interlocking tower and railroad depot. [11] Until 1963, passengers of Twin Cities 400 and the Rochester 400 changed trains there, as it was a scheduled transfer point for the two streamliners ...