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The Railroad Car Builder's Dictionary. Dover Publications. White, John H. (1978). The American Railroad Passenger Car. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801819652. OCLC 2798188. White, John H. Jr. (1993). The American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Micheline train at the Cité du train museum in Mulhouse, France Micheline tyre and rim. Michelines were a series of rubber-tyred trains developed in France in the 1930s by various rail companies and rubber-tyre manufacturer Michelin. Some Michelines were built in the United States by the Budd Company. [1]
It automatically locks the couplers on cars or locomotives together without a rail worker having to get between the cars, and replaced the link and pin coupler, which was a major cause of railroad worker injuries and deaths. The locking pin that ensures Janney couplers remain fastened together is withdrawn manually by a worker using the "cut ...
The Budd–Michelin rubber-tired rail cars were built by the Budd Company in the United States between 1931 and 1933 using French firm Michelin's "Micheline" rail car design. Michelin built its first rail car in 1929, and by 1932 had built a fleet of nine cars that all featured innovative and distinctive pneumatic tires .
On a standard-gauge railway, the nominal mounting height for the coupler (rail top to coupler center) is 33 inches (838 mm), with a 34 + 1 ⁄ 2 ± 1 inch (876 ± 25 mm) maximum height on empty cars and 31 + 1 ⁄ 2 ± 1 inch (800 ± 25 mm) minimum height on loaded cars.
Roughly bounded by Parsons Ave., Broad and Main Sts., and the railroad tracks; also 43-125 Parsons Ave., including 684 Oak St. and 690 Franklin Ave. 39°57′43″N 82°57′53″W / 39.961944°N 82.964722°W / 39.961944; -82.964722 ( Columbus Near East Side
The railroad received a $750,000 grant from the Ohio Rail Development Commission in May 2023 to support additional tracks in Newark Yard, the primary yard on the CUOH system. The grant also supported conversion of two manually-operated switches at the Ohio Central Railroad and Ohio Southern Railroad interchange in Zanesville. [4] [5]
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway (1926–1930) Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway (1846–1917) Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Railway; Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western Railway; Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western Railroad; Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railroad; Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw Railway