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Train depot in Hartsel, Colorado . A station building, also known as a head house, is the main building of a passenger railway station. It is typically used principally to provide services to passengers. [1] [2] [3] A station building is a component of a station, which can include tracks, platforms, an overpass or underpass, and a train shed.
The head house to Bowling Green subway station in New York City. In subway systems, a head house is the part of a subway station that is above ground, which contain escalators, elevators and ticket agents. On the New York City Subway, a head house is called a "Control House".
Train whistles are used as a safety warning and also by the engineer to communicate to other railroad workers. See train whistle for a description of the whistle code used to communicate. Also a nickname for an air horn on a diesel locomotive. Steam engine whistles were historically known as chimes in the US during the 19th century. Whistle bell
A section house is a building or house-like structure located near or next to a section of railroad used for housing railroad workers, or for the storing and maintenance of equipment for a section of railroad. Section houses were used mainly from the 1890s to the 1960s.
When a train has made a full brake application due to adverse event, or has lost its train air due to a defective valve (a "kicker"), or a broken air line or train separation. The train crew will normally declare that they are "in emergency" over the train radio, thus warning other trains and the dispatcher that there is a problem.
A tenement of the old style, from Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890) A railroad apartment or railroad flat, sometimes referred to as a floor-through apartment, is an apartment with a series of rooms connecting to each other in a line. [1]
In some cases the term higher speed rail would sound incorrect to define a train travelling below a high speed since higher is greater than high. Therefore, the word higher speed rail would sound correct to refer to a train at a speed between 300 and 500 km/h (i.e. greater than the high speed of 200–300 km/h). [according to whom?]
House-built engines, where the engine is the house. A house-built engine is a large beam engine where the engine house itself forms the frame of the engine. The term "engine house" is also used, widely in the United States and perhaps elsewhere, to mean: Fire station, which hold fire engine trucks.