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  2. North American Railcar Operators Association - Wikipedia

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    Among other events, on June 25 and 26, 2013, members of NARCOA operated their privately owned railroad motorcars over the Leadville, Colorado and Southern Railroad in Colorado. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] There was a 20-day tour of the Pacific Northwest railroads in 2015 [ 15 ] and a 2015 excursion for three days from Coos Bay to Coquille [ 16 ] and in Napa ...

  3. Railroad speeder - Wikipedia

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    Speeder in use in Santa Cruz, California. A speeder (also known as a section car, railway motor car, putt-putt, track-maintenance car, crew car, jigger, trike, quad, trolley, inspection car, or draisine) is a small railcar used around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move quickly to and from work sites. [1]

  4. California Western Railroad - Wikipedia

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    California Western 45 photo special eastbound at the first crossing of the Noyo River, 2009. The California Western Railroad (reporting mark CWR), AKA Mendocino Railway, popularly called the Skunk Train, is a rail freight and heritage railroad transport railway in Mendocino County, California, United States, running from the railroad's headquarters in the coastal town of Fort Bragg to the ...

  5. Rail transportation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first American locomotive at Castle Point in Hoboken, New Jersey, c. 1826 The Canton Viaduct, built in 1834, is still in use today on the Northeast Corridor.. Between 1762 and 1764 a gravity railroad (mechanized tramway) (Montresor's Tramway) was built by British Army engineers up the steep riverside terrain near the Niagara River waterfall's escarpment at the Niagara Portage in Lewiston ...

  6. Railroad land grants in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Construction began in 1870 and the main line opened all the way to the Pacific in September, 1883. The railroad had about 6,800 miles (10,900 km) of track and served a large area, including extensive trackage in the states of Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin.

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  8. 3 ft gauge railroads in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Preserved train cars of the defunct Oahu Railway and Land Company (note the dual gauge track underneath them). A Midwest Central Railroad gas-powered switcher locomotive in Iowa. A line of the defunct Nantucket Central Railroad Company sometime between 1910 and 1917. A Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad water tower in its yard in New Mexico.

  9. 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 ...