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A Bettendorf -style truck with axle boxes, which are not part of the side frames, at the wheels. A Swiss axlebox. Japanese archbar truck with axleboxes at the wheels. Diamond frame bogie, elliptical springs and American style journal boxes. Closeup of a shared bogie with 4 specially adapted side bearings and an articulated connector between two ...
Destroyed in Seconds is a half-hour American television series that aired on Discovery Channel.Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc.
A rail fastening system is a means of fixing rails to railroad ties ( North America) or sleepers ( British Isles, Australasia, and Africa ). The terms rail anchors, tie plates, chairs and track fasteners are used to refer to parts or all of a rail fastening system. The components of a rail fastening system may also be known collectively as ...
Simone Carter. August 14, 2024 at 4:28 PM. Nearly 400 gallons of ethanol spilled in Tacoma’s Tideflats near the Thea Foss Waterway on Tuesday after a train clipped a fuel truck, according to ...
Roadrailer. A RoadRailer is a trailer or semi-trailer that can be hauled on roads by a tractor unit and then by way of a fifth wheel coupling, operate in a unit train on railway lines. The RoadRailer system allows trailers to be pulled by locomotives without the use of flatcars, instead attaching trailers directly to bogies.
A passenger railroad car or passenger car ( American English ), also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach ( British English and International Union of Railways ), or passenger bogie ( Indian English) [ 1] is a railroad car that is designed to carry passengers. The term passenger car can also be associated with a sleeping car, a baggage ...
Concrete sleepers were first used on the Alford and Sutton Tramway in 1884. Their first use on a main line railway was by the Reading Company in America in 1896, as recorded by AREA Proceedings at the time. Designs were further developed and the railways of Austria and Italy used the first concrete sleepers around the turn of the 20th century.
A railway air brake is a railway brake power braking system with compressed air as the operating medium. [ 1] Modern trains rely upon a fail-safe air brake system that is based upon a design patented by George Westinghouse on April 13, 1869. [ 2] The Westinghouse Air Brake Company was subsequently organized to manufacture and sell Westinghouse ...