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  2. List of railroad yards in New York City - Wikipedia

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    Glendale Yard - Owned by the LIRR, operated by the New York & Atlantic Railway. Arch Street Yard - Owned by the LIRR but which services both LIRR and Metro-North equipment. Also has a freight terminal for New York & Atlantic Railway. Bayside Yard - Small LIRR maintenance yard usually used to stage equipment and supplies for track work.

  3. Minimum railway curve radius - Wikipedia

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    Minimum railway curve radius. 90-foot (27.43 m) radii on the elevated 4 ft 81⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge Chicago 'L'. There is no room for longer radii above this street intersection at this cross junction at the Wells and Lake street intersection in the northwest corner of the loop. The minimum railway curve radius is the shortest ...

  4. Rail yard - Wikipedia

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    A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail vehicles and locomotives. Yards have many tracks in parallel for keeping rolling stock or unused locomotives stored off the main line , so that they do not obstruct the flow of traffic.

  5. Model railroad layout - Wikipedia

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    Model railroad layout. In model railroading, a layout is a diorama containing scale track for operating trains. The size of a layout varies, from small shelf-top designs to ones that fill entire rooms, basements, or whole buildings. Attention to modeling details such as structures and scenery is common.

  6. Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum

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    Coordinates: 42.6974°N 73.1142°W. The Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum was a museum proposed for North Adams, Massachusetts that plans to display model trains running through a landscape of notable modern architecture. Architect Frank Gehry has contracted to design the new museum, which will be located a few blocks ...

  7. Rail transport modelling - Wikipedia

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    A Japanese H0e scale model railroad One of the smallest (Z scale, 1:220) placed on the buffer bar of one of the larger (live steam, 1:8) model locomotives HO scale (1:87) model of a North American center cab switcher shown with a pencil for size Z scale (1:220) scene of a 2-6-0 steam locomotive being turned. A scratch-built Russell snow plow is ...

  8. Classification yard - Wikipedia

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    A classification yard ( American English, as well as the Canadian National Railway ), marshalling yard ( British, Hong Kong, Indian, and Australian English, as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railway cars onto one of several tracks.

  9. Fiddle yard - Wikipedia

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    Fiddle yard. A simple fiddle yard with three sidings. The track at the bottom goes to the scenic section of the layout. A fiddle yard or staging yard is a collection of model railway tracks that are hidden from view and allow trains to be stored and manipulated by the operators. [ 1][ 2] These tracks are used to allow most model railways to be ...

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