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  2. Glossary of North American railway terms - Wikipedia

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    When a train has made a full brake application due to adverse event, or has lost its train air due to a defective valve (a "kicker"), or a broken air line or train separation. The train crew will normally declare that they are "in emergency" over the train radio, thus warning other trains and the dispatcher that there is a problem.

  3. Manifest (transportation) - Wikipedia

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    The manifest can also be prepared for regulatory purposes, specifically the customs manifest which needs to be sent to customs when arriving in the first port in a country. The difference in information on the customs manifest and the freight manifest is usually marginal, but the legal status of the two documents is completely different.

  4. File:Manifest Destiny in the West.pdf - Wikipedia

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    File history. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Manifest Destiny in the West.pdf; Page:Manifest Destiny in the West.pdf/1; Page ...

  5. Glossary of rail transport terms - Wikipedia

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    Rail transport terms are a form of technical terminology applied to railways. Although many terms are uniform across different nations and companies, they are by no means universal, with differences often originating from parallel development of rail transport systems in different parts of the world, and in the national origins of the engineers and managers who built the inaugural rail ...

  6. Wagonload freight - Wikipedia

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    In the US and Canada the term carload refers to a single car of any kind, and manifest train refers to trains made of diverse cars of freight. With competition from road transport rail freight transport is increasingly operated as unit trains , with wagonload less able to compete with road haulage.

  7. Unit train - Wikipedia

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    A Deutsche Bahn unit train working for Daimler AG between the factories at Sindelfingen and Bremen. A unit train, also called a block train or a trainload service, is a train in which all cars (wagons) carry the same commodity and are shipped from the same origin to the same destination, without being split up or stored en route. [1]

  8. Tehachapi Loop - Wikipedia

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    In gaining elevation around the central hill of the Loop, a 4,000-foot train will cross 77 feet above its rear cars in the tunnel below. [ 17 ] A large white cross, "The Cross at the Loop", stands atop the hill in the center of the loop in memory of two Southern Pacific Railroad employees killed on May 12, 1989, in a train derailment in San ...

  9. Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way - Wikipedia

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    A Currier and Ives print from 1868 uses the same title and theme for a very different print, showing a railroad crossing a new settlement as the train goes west. A photographic print and a stereograph by Alexander Gardner, [2] both of an 1867 end-of-track frontier construction train, were titled Westward The Course of Empire Takes Its Way.