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  2. Glossary of North American railway terms - Wikipedia

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    A spiker is an example of MOW equipment The maintenance of a railroad's rights of way, including track [167] Manifest A westbound Southern Pacific manifest train A freight train with a mixture of car types and cargoes. Also known as a Mixed Freight Train. [167] [169] Mating Worms

  3. Manifest (transportation) - Wikipedia

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    A manifest can be exchanged for commercial purposes, for example the freight manifest exchanged between two liner agents in the departure and the arrival ports. The manifest can also be prepared for regulatory purposes, specifically the customs manifest which needs to be sent to customs when arriving in the first port in a country.

  4. Glossary of rail transport terms - Wikipedia

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    Manifest An express freight train carrying a variety of general merchandise [148] [149] Mars Light A nose-mounted mechanically oscillated light used to warn traffic of an approaching locomotive. Functionally replaced by ditch lights on modern locomotives. Mechanical semaphore signal A signal in which the aspect is conveyed by moving an arm [150 ...

  5. Wagonload freight - Wikipedia

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    In the US and Canada the term carload refers to a single car of any kind, and manifest train refers to trains made of diverse cars of freight. With competition from road transport rail freight transport is increasingly operated as unit trains , with wagonload less able to compete with road haulage.

  6. Texas Special - Wikipedia

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    The name appears on the car manifest as "Auguste Choteau" for Rene Aguste Choteau. It is unknown at the time of this writing if the typo was on manifest or misspelled on the side of the car itself. Note: Some model train manufacturers have put the names "Lonestar" and "Cheri Neil" on the side panels of Texas Special cars.

  7. Rail freight transport - Wikipedia

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    A Class 92 hauled container freight train on the West Coast Main Line, United Kingdom A long grain train of the Union Pacific Railroad crossing a bridge in Washington state, United States Freight trains wait for departure in Zhengzhou, China. Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.

  8. San Bernardino train disaster - Wikipedia

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    Sketch of the accident site. The San Bernardino train disaster (sometimes known as the Duffy Street incident or the 1989 Cajon Pass Runaway), was a combination of two separate but related incidents that occurred in San Bernardino, California, United States: a runaway train derailment on May 12, 1989; and the subsequent failure on May 25, 1989, of the Calnev Pipeline, a petroleum pipeline ...

  9. Unit train - Wikipedia

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    A Deutsche Bahn unit train working for Daimler AG between the factories at Sindelfingen and Bremen. A unit train, also called a block train or a trainload service, is a train in which all cars (wagons) carry the same commodity and are shipped from the same origin to the same destination, without being split up or stored en route. [1]