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	Rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The rails and perpendicular beams are usually then placed on a foundation made of concrete or compressed earth and gravel in a bed of ballast to prevent the track from buckling (bending out of its original configuration) as the ground settles over time beneath and under the weight of the vehicles passing above.
		Rail transport is an energy-efficient and capital-intensive means of mechanised land transport.
		Rail lines that carry little traffic are often built as single track, to be used by trains in both directions; "passing sidings", which consist of short stretches of double track, are provided along the line to allow trains to pass one another, and to travel in opposite directions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rail_transport (2807 words)

	POLITICAL - Online Information article about POLITICAL
		rail connexion with Vera Cruz and Mexico City, the distance between the latter and Salina Cruz being 520 m.
		The foreign trade has shown a steady increase during the period of industrial development, to which better means of transport have been an invaluable aid.
		advent of railways, and is still the common means of transport away from the railway lines.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PIG_POL/POLITICAL.html (6043 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1867 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		1864 1865 1866 - 1867 - 1868 1869 1870
		Canada - Rail transport - Science - South Africa - Sport
		1867 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /1867 (1018 words)

	UrbanRail.Net > Books on Subways and Metros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Very well illustrated book (text in Catalan) showing the development of urban transport in the metropolitan area of Barcelona.
		Martin W. Sandler: Straphanging in the U.S.A: Trolleys and Subways in American Life (Transportation in America).
		A History of Urban Mass Transport in North America.
	www.urbanrail.net /metrolit.htm (3590 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- South Africa
		The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjugation of the native inhabitants.
		South Africa is a middle-income, emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; a stock exchange that ranks among the 10 largest in the world; and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centers throughout the region.
		However, growth has not been strong enough to lower South Africa's high unemployment rate; and daunting economic problems remain from the apartheid era, especially poverty and lack of economic empowerment among the disadvantaged groups.
	www.brainyatlas.com /geos/sf.html (1261 words)

	Japan
		(2005 est.): transport equipment, motor vehicles, semiconductors, electrical machinery, chemicals.
		In 1904–1905, Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, gaining the territory of southern Sakhalin (Karafuto) and Russia's port and rail rights in Manchuria.
		In World War I, Japan seized Germany's Pacific islands and leased areas in China.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107666.html (1534 words)

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