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  2. Water stop - Wikipedia

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    The Gila Bend Steam Locomotive Water Stop was built in 1900 and is located in Gila Bend, Arizona Remnants of Turkish railway station in Nitzana, Israel. Left: Water stop. Right: Wall of the Stationmaster's office. A water stop or water station on a railroad is a place where steam trains stop to replenish water. The stopping of the train itself ...

  3. Catch points - Wikipedia

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    Trap points with a crossing are double trap points where the tongues of rail are longer, so that the trap point rail nearest the main line continues over the siding rail with a common crossing or frog. A trap road with stops is a short dead-end siding leading to some method of stopping a vehicle, such as a sand drag or buffer stop.

  4. List of crossings of the Connecticut River - Wikipedia

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    Railroad bridge (former) Baltimore truss bridge, once used by Maine Central Railroad and North Stratford Railroad; now used by hikers and snowmobilers. [3] [4] [5] c. 1903 [6: Canaan–Stewartstown Bridge Beecher Falls and Stewartstown

  5. Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains - Wikipedia

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    Train—including passenger, metro, light rail, goods, and locomotive—units. Railroad engineering and technology. Railway stations and halts. Railway routes and lines. Railroad operators. Manufacturers of train units and of railroad apparatus. Organisations whose main business is with railroads. Trains portal

  6. Water trough - Wikipedia

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    New York Central Railroad's Empire State Express takes on water from the track pan at Palatine, New York, in 1905. A water trough (British terminology), or track pan (American terminology), is a device to enable a steam locomotive to replenish its water supply while in motion. It consists of a long trough filled with water, lying between the rails.

  7. Video shows man rescuing two dogs from frigid lake: 'We had ...

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    On Dec. 5, a video shows Weil jumping in the lake to rescue his two dogs. “Sonic walked off first fell in and Yobo followed him, fell in,” Weil told the news outlet.

  8. River Cart Aqueduct - Wikipedia

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    The bridge is probably the longest span masonry aqueduct of the canal age on a British canal, and one of the world's earliest bridges carrying a public railway. It was widened to carry the double track railway, and the line crosses the bridge at a slight skew because of the easing of the sharp canal curvature. [4] [5] [6]

  9. Rail bridge collapses on US-Canada border

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    A century-old rail lift bridge that crosses the U.S.-Canada border near the cities of International Falls, Minnesota, and Fort Frances, Ontario, has collapsed, and it's unclear when the area will ...