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  2. William Aiken House and Associated Railroad Structures

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    The William Aiken House and Associated Railroad Structures make up a National Historic Landmark District in Charleston, South Carolina, that contains structures of South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company and the home of the company's founder, William Aiken. These structures make up one of the largest collection of surviving pre- Civil War ...

  3. History of the railway track - Wikipedia

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    The earliest tracks consisted of wooden rails on transverse wooden sleepers, which helped maintain the spacing of the rails. Various developments followed, with cast iron plates laid on top of the wooden rails and later wrought iron plates or wrought iron angle plates (angle iron as L-shaped plate rails). Rails were also individually fixed to ...

  4. Automobile License Plate Collectors Association - Wikipedia

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    The Automobile License Plate Collectors Association (ALPCA) is the largest such organization in the world. [1] Founded in Rumney Depot, New Hampshire, United States, in 1954 and holding its first meeting/convention in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, in 1955. It serves as a way for license plate collectors to trade plates, distribute news, and ...

  5. Plateway - Wikipedia

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    A plateway is an early kind of railway, tramway or wagonway, where the rails are made from cast iron. They were mainly used for about 50 years up to 1830, though some continued later. Plateways consisted of L-shaped rails, where the flange on the rail guides the wheels, in contrast to edgeways, where flanges on the wheels guide them along the ...

  6. Plate (dishware) - Wikipedia

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    A plate is a broad, mainly flat vessel on which food can be served. [1] A plate can also be used for ceremonial or decorative purposes. Most plates are circular, but they may be any shape, or made of any water-resistant material. Generally plates are raised round the edges, either by a curving up, or a wider lip or raised portion.

  7. List of British Rail TOPS depot codes - Wikipedia

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    From the introduction of TOPS in 1973, all British Rail diesel and electric locomotives and multiple units were allocated to a particular traction maintenance depot or TMD. . Drawing from the terminology of steam traction, these depots were generally referred to as "sheds", and indeed most locations were those which had possessed depots for steam loc

  8. Frame and panel - Wikipedia

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    Frame and panel construction, also called rail and stile, is a woodworking technique often used in the making of doors, wainscoting, and other decorative features for cabinets, furniture, and homes. The basic idea is to capture a 'floating' panel within a sturdy frame, as opposed to techniques used in making a slab solid wood cabinet door or ...

  9. List of British Railways shed codes - Wikipedia

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    An 82F (Bath S&D) plate on the smokebox of 9F 92212. Each steam locomotive was allocated to a particular shed and an oval, cast metal plate (usually 4 + 5 ⁄ 8 in × 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (120 mm × 190 mm)) [3] with the depot code was bolted to the smokebox on the front of the locomotive. When a locomotive was reallocated to a different shed the ...

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