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Railway workshops are railway facilities in which rolling stock is repaired. While often colocated with engine sheds to perform routine tasks as well as major repairs, in some countries separated concepts exist with railway workshops being specialized in major repairs and general inspections.
Northern Pacific Railroad Shops, Brainerd, Minnesota Inside a diesel shed, Peterborough, South Australia Old railway depot in Suonenjoki, Finland. A motive power depot (MPD) or locomotive depot, or traction maintenance depot (TMD), is where locomotives are usually housed, repaired and maintained. They were originally known as "running sheds ...
Railway workshops in the United States (2 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Railway workshops" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
A backshop or back-shop [1] is a specialized store or workshop found in service industries, such as locomotive and aircraft repair. Most repairs are carried out in small workshops, except where an industrial service is needed. In the military, backshops repair parts are known as shop-replaceable units (SRUs).
This museum workshop containing tools and supplies has been in use for decades. Metal workers at workshop in Tampere, Finland in 1955 A railway workshop. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution era, a workshop may be a room, rooms or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods.
A railway roundhouse is a building with a circular or semicircular shape used by railways for servicing and storing locomotives. [1] Traditionally, though not always the case today, these buildings contained or were adjacent to a turntable .
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 ...
Railway workshops on the National Register of Historic Places (12 P) N. New York City Subway yards and shops (3 P) Pages in category "Railway workshops in the United ...