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Where Is My Train is an Android application owned by Google for tracking the live status of trains run by Indian Railways. The application was created by Sigmoid Labs, [1] a team of former TiVo Corporation developers. The company was acquired by Google in 2018. [1] [2] [3]
RailRadar GPS (by RailYatri) is a live tracker allowing users to watch the movements of passenger trains running in India on an interactive map. All passenger trains in India are operated by state-owned Indian Railways. In the first release the location and status of trains shown on the map was typically 15 to 30 minutes delayed from real-time.
A train ticket is a transit pass ticket issued by a railway operator that enables the bearer to travel on the operator's network or a partner's network. Tickets can authorize the bearer to travel a set itinerary at a specific time (common for long-distance railroads), a set itinerary at any time (common for commuter railroads ), a set itinerary ...
The median length of a U.S. freight train is roughly 5,400 feet (1,646 meters), or roughly 90 cars, with a small fraction exceeding 14,000 feet (4,267 meters). Trains include equipment from ...
Once a ticket was issued, its number was recorded in a Train Register book, and the token was locked in a secure place. The system is known as staff and ticket. In a variation on that principle, called divisible train staff , a section of the token or staff, referred to as the ticket portion , was designed to be removed and handed to the driver ...
The train operates using Amtrak equipment, but on the Canadian side of the border is staffed by Via employees and operated as a typical Via train. Two other train routes link Canada and the US: the Adirondack (Montreal-New York) and the Amtrak Cascades (Vancouver-Seattle-Portland). While both of these routes share stations with Via at their ...
The train is the sole Amtrak service in Tennessee, making stops at Memphis and Newbern. In fiscal year 2004, the City of New Orleans achieved an on-time performance rating of 67.6%. [ 31 ] The train's average on-time performance rating for fiscal year 2006 was 86.8%, reaching as high as 93.5% for the month of May 2006.
It became a fully separate train in 1986. [3] The train gained bilevel Superliner cars in 1994. [4] Amtrak inherited the Silver Star from the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in 1971. Amtrak previously used the name Floridian for a Chicago–Miami service that ran from 1971 to 1979 via Louisville, Kentucky, Nashville, Tennessee, and Montgomery ...