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The point machine (in this case an electric motor) and associated mechanism used to operate this switch can be seen to the right in the picture. A point machine (also known as a point motor, switch machine or switch motor) is a device for operating railway turnouts especially at a distance.
A right-hand railroad switch with point indicator pointing to right Animated diagram of a right-hand railroad switch. Rail track A divides into two: track B (the straight track) and track C (the diverging track); note that the green line represents direction of travel only, the black lines represent fixed portions of track, and the red lines depict the moving components.
The Rouses Point Subdivision is a railway line in southwestern Quebec. It runs north–south from the northern end of Canadian Subdivision, on the border with New York, to the St-Hyacinthe Subdivision, in the vicinity of Montreal. The oldest part of the line was the original main line of the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, completed in 1836.
Mason Machine Works: 0-4-4F 1873 526 allocated CPR # 533, but scrapped before being re-gauged 6 Mason Machine Works: 0-4-4F 1873 527 sold 1882 to Herkimer, Newport and Poland Railway: 7 Mason Machine Works: 0-4-4F 1873 531 sold 1881 to Prince Edward Island Railway 2nd # 1 8 Mason Machine Works: 0-4-4F 1873 532 sold 1881 to Prince Edward Island ...
Bombardier Transportation was a Canadian-German rolling stock and rail transport manufacturer, with headquarters in Berlin, Germany.It was one of the world's largest companies in the rail vehicle and equipment manufacturing and servicing industry.
RailLink Canada was subsequently purchased by RailAmerica, which operated the Mackenzie Northern Railway between Smith and Hay River. Commodities include agriculture and forest products from northeastern Alberta and the southern Northwest Territories, as well as fuel and supplies destined for Arctic communities to be barged across Great Slave ...
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On the completion of the line to Plattsburgh in 1875, D&H trains used the original Plattsburgh and Montreal Railroad line to Mooers, and then the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad to Rouses Point, New York. The New York and Canada constructed a 13-mile (21 km) cutoff from Chazy, New York, to Rouses Point, which opened on September 18, 1876.