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A cinder track is a type of race track, generally purposed for track and field or horse racing, whose surface is composed of cinders. For running tracks, many cinder surfaces have been replaced by all-weather synthetic surfaces, which provide greater durability and more consistent results, and are less stressful on runners.
Good quality track ballast is made of crushed stone. The sharp edges help the particles interlock with each other. Track ballast supports railway sleepers, which carry railway track. Track ballast is the material which forms the trackbed upon which railroad ties (UK: sleepers) are laid.
There are three big mounds of dirt on the backside at Churchill Downs that are carefully mixed to create the racetrack surface. Here's how they do it.
The proper length of the first lane of a competitive running track is 400 m (1,312.3 ft). Some tracks are not built to this specification, instead being a legacy to imperial distances such as 440 yd (402.336 m), equivalent to a quarter of a mile.
The Illinois village of Roanoke hosts the inaugural Cinder Classic, a unique old-school high school track and field event.
A railway track (CwthE and UIC terminology) or railroad track (NAmE), also known as permanent way (CwthE) [1] or "P Way" BrE [2] and Indian English), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers (railroad ties in American English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.
The rails were at first made of cast iron, typically in lengths of 3 feet (0.91 m), spanning between stone blocks. [16] The stone blocks had been assumed to be permanent, but experience quickly showed that they settled and gradually moved under traffic, creating chaotic track geometry and causing derailments. Another problem was that the ...
Linh Cinder, the character from the novel and The Lunar Chronicles series Cinder Fall, a major antagonist in the animated web series RWBY Cinder, a character in the Killer Instinct video games