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  2. Railway track - Wikipedia

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    A railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (American English), also known as a train track or permanent way (often "perway" [1] in Australia or "P Way" in Britain [2] and India), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or ...

  3. History of the railway track - Wikipedia

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    The first version of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad gauge system used rails laid on longitudinal sleepers whose rail gauge and elevation were pinned down by being tied to piles (conceptually akin to a pile bridge), but this arrangement was expensive and Brunel soon replaced it with what became the classic broad gauge track, in ...

  4. Ballastless track - Wikipedia

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    A segment of ballastless track. A ballastless track or slab track is a type of railway track infrastructure in which the traditional elastic combination of sleepers and ballast is replaced by a rigid construction of concrete or asphalt. Ballastless track of the type "Low Vibration Track" in a turnout in the Gotthard Base Tunnel's Faido ...

  5. List of CSX Transportation lines - Wikipedia

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    CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United ...

  6. If you live by an old railroad track in NY, the federal ...

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    The railroad bought the Beacon Line right-of-way in 1995 for nearly $4.5 million and once considered using it as an east-west link for its Hudson and Harlem lines.

  7. Narrow-gauge railroads in the United States - Wikipedia

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    More tracks remain past a burned down bridge, and past the society in Ewa, totaling to 12 miles of remaining OR&L Right of way. On Maui, the Lahaina, Kaanapali and Pacific Railroad operates on 6 miles of tracks through former sugar plantation land. This railroad, also known as the "Sugar Cane Train" is the only 3 foot railroad in Hawaii to ...

  8. 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]

  9. Colebrookdale branch - Wikipedia

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    The Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad replaced the Anthracite Railway as the operator in 1989. [8] The Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad did not bid for renewal of the lease in 1995 and was succeeded by East Penn Railways, with an option to buy the line outright. [9] Penn Eastern Rail Lines acquired East Penn Railways in ...

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