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  2. Transfer table - Wikipedia

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    A transfer table contains two tracks with different configurations. The table is moved sideways or rotated [3] to choose the configuration that connects the track that the incoming train will be traveling from and to. Using transfer table as a switch or a rotary switch allows the center rack rail to be aligned for the cog wheels to continually ...

  3. Railway turntable - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Rack railway - Wikipedia

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    With the success of the new turnout, more new automatic hydraulic turnouts were built to replace the hand-operated ones. The new turnouts installed on the Mount Washington line in 2007 are essentially transfer tables. [33] The Locher rack also requires transfer tables.

  5. Category:Railway buildings and structures - Wikipedia

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    Transfer table; W. Water column (railroad) Water crane; Water trough This page was last edited on 21 December 2024, at 08:43 (UTC). ...

  6. Rail fastening system - Wikipedia

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    The rail spike has entered American popular consciousness in this manner; the driving of the Golden Spike was a key point in the development of the western seaboard in North America and was recognized as a national achievement and demonstration of progress. Since, railroad workers have been celebrated in popular culture, including in song and ...

  7. Transfer switcher - Wikipedia

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    Preserved Baldwin DT-6-6-2000 transfer locomotive at the Illinois Railway Museum. A transfer switcher was a type of railroad locomotive specifically designed to perform "transfer" work in which freight cars are transported between two freight yards in a large terminal area.

  8. Railway roundhouse - Wikipedia

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    The John Street Roundhouse, now part of Roundhouse Park in Toronto, Canada, viewed from the CN Tower in September 2012. A railway roundhouse is a building with a circular or semicircular shape used by railways for servicing and storing locomotives. [1]

  9. Dual gauge - Wikipedia

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    A simple dual-gauge common-rail change-over device. It directs standard-gauge rolling stock from the common rail in the left foreground to the right-hand rail in readiness for the turnout in the distance. [p] 1600 / 1435 / 1067 mm (5 ft 3 / 4 ft 8 1 / 2 / 3 ft 6 in).