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	Railroad switch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A switch may also be symmetric, or tracks AB and AC may be curved at different radii in the same or different directions.
		A gantlet track (in British and Australian English: gauntlet, or gauntleted, track) refers to the situation where tracks converge onto a single roadbed and are interlaced to pass through a narrow passage such as a cut, bridge, or tunnel.
		Gantlet track is typically used for short stretches of track where it is cheaper to provide extra rails than to provide switches and reduce the line to single track.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Railroad_switch (1720 words)

	Railroad switch -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Stub switches are used primarily on (A railroad track (or its width) narrower than the standard 56.5 inches) narrow gauge lines and (A railway line connected to a trunk line) branch lines where the relative flexibility of the lighter rails makes this practical.
		A derailer can consist of a single switch point installed in a track which can be pulled away from the rail to derail any stray (A wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad) railroad cars which would otherwise roll onto and obstruct a main line and cause a more serious accident.
		Gantlet tracks are commonly used when a rail line's capacity is increased with the addition of an additional track, but cost or other factors prevent the widening of the bridges.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Ra/Railroad_switch.htm (1409 words)

	Railroad switch - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A derailer consists of a single switch point installed in a track which can be pulled away from the rail to derail any stray railroad cars which would otherwise roll onto and obstruct a main line and cause a more serious accident.
		A gantlet track refers to two tracks that converge onto a single roadbed to pass through a narrow passage such as a cut or a bridge, similar to a dual gauge railway.
		However the derivation of the term gantlet track is akin to running the gauntlet, which means to run between two confining rows of hostile adversaries.
	www.iridis.com /Switch_point (1193 words)

	N Scale Modular Layout Standards
		Track configuration on modules is flexible within the constraint that the module must be reversible.
		The surface of the track bed should be shaped into a slight downslope for the last 2" at each end of the module, to help ensure the connecting tracks remain level.
		Powering of track beyond the turnout gaps can be via additional power feeds; special attention must be paid to tracks joining tracks on the second half of the module as these may form a reversing section or loop.
	www.trainweb.org /cpd13/standardsn.html (2584 words)

	RAILROAD - Definition
		A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.
		The road, track, etc., with al the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property; as, certain railroad has been put into the hands of a receiver.
		It may also indicate that you have lost track of your goals, Dreaming that you are walking alongside the railroad tracks means much happiness from your skillful completion of your tasks.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/railroad (499 words)

	Gauntlet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gauntlet (gloves), protective gloves used as a form of armour.
		Gantlet track, a section of two railroad tracks that overlap to allow them to pass a narrow bridge or tunnel in little more than the space of one track.
		Running the Gauntlet refers to a corporal punishment in which people armed with sticks or other weapons arrange themselves in two lines facing each other and beat the subject, who is forced to run between them - see the Roman antecedent fustuarium.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gauntlet (244 words)

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		Their figure was derived from the track record at the distance and the belief that a length could translate to a fifth of a second.
		The surface is the surface of the track.
		General Information: Woodbine has 3 track surfaces - 1 mile on dirt, the inner turf (a mile) and the Marshall Turf which runs on the outside of the inner turf down a long straight away (the back of the main track) around and across the dirt track and onto the inner turf to finish.
	www.horse-races.net /derby/derby-faq.txt (11924 words)

	N-SCALE Forum - Chapter on Auxiliary yards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The RIP track is probably the biggest operations bang in the smallest, simplest possible space of any device on the railroad.
		A scale track is usually located astride an arrival/departure track, to weigh bulk commodities a carload at a time while entering or leaving the yard.
		The subject of team tracks is covered fully in the primer section on industries, but I must mention it is not unusual for a set of team tracks to be located inside or nearby to a yard, even if only for the railroads' personal use.
	www.nscale.org /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3049 (3045 words)

	The New York Times > Sports > Other Sports > Marion Jones's Reputation Is Up in the Air
		She begins her run through a gantlet of challenges so extreme that she may come through them as one of her sport's greatest performers ever - or one of its most infamous.
		White admitted that she used performance-enhancing drugs and is serving a two-year suspension in connection with the federal investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, a nutritional supplement company whose founder, Victor Conte Jr., is one of four men indicted on charges of distributing steroids.
		In the weeks leading up to the track and field trials, with those advisers by her side, Jones has taken an aggressive stance, calling for a public hearing on any charges against her and asking for her testimony to the Balco grand jury to be released, but those requests were denied.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/07/09/sports/othersports/09jones.html?position=&ei=5090&en=1f458c1c00423c9e&ex=1247025600&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1102568876-PiIhDbyk9pCYeWlVh0GBpw (2033 words)

	§ 140. gauntlet / gantlet. 3. Word Choice. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996
		If you are not sure whether you should throw down the gantlet or the gauntlet, don’t throw in the towel.
		There are two words spelled gauntlet and both have gantlet as a spelling variant, so you can’t go wrong.
		The gantlet variant of this second gauntlet has given birth to the railroad term gantlet, which is a section of track designed so that one rail of each track is inside the rails of the other to allow trains on separate tracks to pass through a very narrow space.
	www.bartleby.com /64/C003/0140.html (328 words)

	Rogue Valley Transit, Ashland - Grants Pass
		The track has been rebuilt, is maintained to class 5 (90 mph), is properly superelevated between Talent and Ashland and in the curvy part northwest of Gold Ray Dam.
		Without a waiver, gantlet track has to be used, which adds about 200 000 $ to each platform, almost doubling the costs of stations.
		A track owner or a railroad operating above Class 5 speeds, may request approval from the Federal Railroad Administrator to operate specified equipment at a level of cant deficiency greater than four inches in accordance with §213.329(c) and (d) on curves in Class 1 through 5 track which are contiguous to the high speed track...
	zierke.com /shasta_route/pages/47ash-grants (1474 words)

	Re: [NSW] Gauntlet Track (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I don't think Dual gauge track could ever be classed as gauntlet (or gantlet) track as the tracks have to be "Interleaved" according to my remembrance of reading the AAR dictionary from years ago.
		A version of the reason for Gauntlet track being called that is the shape of the rails leading into it being shaped ike the flair on "Gauntlets" ie armoured gloves.
		The track on weigh bridges are Gauntlet despite the use of switchblades.
	www.railpage.org.au /ausrail/00june/msg01816.html (135 words)

	Trains.com - Track
		There are bridge tracks, triple diversion switches, but you still have to handlay if you want a scale track.
		Gantlet tracks are where two sets of track overlap (track 1 left rail, track 2 left rail, track 1 right rail, track 2 right rail) to make it through a narrow space or bridge.
		Gantlet: Turnouts can be modified for each end of the gantlet section - Start by removing the points.
	www.trains.com /community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14652 (466 words)

	New England's Railroad "Arches"
		One major difference between early New England railroads and those built later, or elsewhere in the country, was that the alignment often passed near or through the center of an established town.
		Where only one street needed to pass over, the arch would be less than 100' long, depending on the width of the road and the difference in elevation.
		And in cases like Salem and Newburyport, where a single track arch (using gantlet track in Newburyport's case) separated the passenger station from the engine terminal and coach yard, they provide an interesting operating focus.
	jbvb.ex.com /rr/arches.html (824 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Gauntlet
		The Gauntlet was a store founded by Jim Ward that pioneered the field of body piercing.
		In the context of railroad operations, the term gantlet track refers to a section of two tracks that overlap to allow them to pass a narrow bridge or tunnel in little more than the space of one track.
		(This could be considered a form of Time-division multiplexing.) See gantlet track section under Railroad switch.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Gauntlet (306 words)

	Railway Age: The North American passenger rail market - Passenger Rail Planner's Guide 2002
		Track work completed last year added a 6.5-mile double track segment east of Gary that will improve capacity and operational flexibility.
		Digging the first of two LRT tunnels beneath the airport began in mid-October, and track laying began Dec. 10 at the Operations and Maintenance Facility.
		Construction is not expected to get under way for at least five years, but a route has been selected, clearing the way for an environmental impact study that will consider light rail, bus rapid transit.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1215/is_3_203/ai_84650891/pg_6 (1421 words)

	The Gauge - Model Train Forum - Scale Railroad Discussion & Model Trains - Opinion on incline to upper track level? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I believe it is pretty standard to have two "ramps", one ascending to and the other descending from the upper level.
		Once I want that train on the lower tracks, it will be able to go forward down the ramp.
		I have it on my big big track plan for my big big unstarted someday to be layout.
	www.the-gauge.com /archive/index.php/t-8235.html (561 words)

	CMU probes hazing - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Officials at Carnegie Mellon University are investigating the alleged hazing of several pledges at Kappa Sigma fraternity who may have been required to drink maple syrup and run a gantlet.
		It said some pledges -- candidates for fraternity membership -- were forced to drink 24 ounces of maple syrup and run a gantlet in a hallway where they were hit with punching bags.
		But Welander said he was not forced to chug maple syrup or run a gantlet when he was a pledge.
	www.pittsburghlive.com:8000 /x/tribune-review/sports/highschool/tribune-review/news/s_168446.html (371 words)

	The Career Network: On the Tenure Track (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		More women are persuading their institutions to let them work a reduced schedule on the tenure track.
		A former adjunct finds that the tenure track gives him the freedom to be a better teacher.
		In his first year on the tenure track in the sciences, Travis J. Ryan learns on the job about the duties of student advising.
	chronicle.com /jobs/archive/tenuretrack.htm (7386 words)

	Another Useless Fact: All the Orthography That's Fit to Print
		There it was, gantlet being a variant spelling of gauntlet.
		(In addition, gantlet is also the name of a Y-shaped piece of railroad track allowing two tracks to converge and run together.) A gantlet is where one passes through a dangerous narrow place subject to assault while a gauntlet is the glove in suits of armor that one throws down to make a challenge.
		A piece in the Columbia Journalism Review here says that gantlet and gauntlet are two different words entirely and they should not be confused.
	anotheruselessfact.blogspot.com /2005/03/all-orthography-thats-fit-to-print.html (332 words)

	The Other Side of The Tracks Message Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There used to be a similar gantlet track in Camden, visible from PATCO on the north side of the Ben Franklin Bridge; there was a freight station with a platform for unloading boxcars at door level, and a gantlet track for wider loads to get around it.
		Gantlet into 34thSt, then dive below 42nd St to connect to the #7 east bound and exiting at Hunters point to follow the AMTRAK ROW to LGA.
		There is a picture in the TMNY archive of a gauntlet track in the middle of Albany NY back in its trolley days.
	www.nycrail.com /amb/board1/273.html (371 words)

	Slip Switch Track - Model Railroads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The essential feature of a double crossover is that it allows trains to cross from one main track to another, in either direction, and most importantly it allows for two simultaneous parallel moves on those two main tracks.
		Your message implies that a double slip switch is not restricted by the limitation that only one train at a time can use it as is a gantlet track.
		And tracked them electronicly to Berlin where they were working for the Soviets, in one direction and to various military sites in the other via Berkley as a gateway.
	www.hobbytalk.org /Slip_Switch_Track-1713745-297-a.html (16218 words)

	The Gauge - Model Train Forum - Scale Railroad Discussion & Model Trains - New Layout Space with Puzzle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		One other method of utilising the area behind the furnace if it is too narrow for a double track is to build a "gantlet" track.
		Unfortuantely, there is only room for one track, not two on each of the two levels running behind the furnace.
		That might also allow me to double the track after the bridge (on the left side) and thereby have a passing track in front of Middlebury Station that would continue around the bottom of the curve to the right side.
	www.the-gauge.com /archive/index.php/t-5225.html (1272 words)

	North Shore History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Both had some of the quirky characteristics of interurbans, such as occasional sections where they ran on streets and--tragically, in the recent South Shore accident--money-saving measures such as gantlet track, where two parallel lines come together briefly to cross a narrow bridge.
		Its tracks were ripped up, the shops and offices in Highwood shuttered and most of the rolling stock shipped to scrapyards.
		That stretch of tracks is still in use as the Skokie Swift.
	members.aol.com /davidibata/CNSMTrib.html (905 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Gantlet for a Scarecrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the early 1900s the inhabitants of an isolated corner of the southern Appalachians happily celebrate the opening of a new railroad town until a young boy is carried away on the first train.
		Taking a frightful risk, the boy escapes the boxcar to follow the track back.
		His path crosses that of other travelers, a hobo running from responsibilities, and a young man and wife on their way to a new home, “Heaven bound by way of Texas.” But there is another encounter with a hobo devoid of virtue.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1413737137 (253 words)

	Eau Claire Tower
		In 1900-01 the Omaha double tracked their railroad from Altoona, Wisconsin to milepost 87 in Eau Claire with gantlet track over the Eau Claire River bridge.
		Interlocking signals and derail controls were installed in a tower located on the west side of the bridge and north of the tracks.
		In 1991-92, the Chicago and Northwestern Transportation Co. removed their westbound mainline from M.P. 89 in Altoona to M.P. 87 in Eau Claire, realigned the eastbound track over the Eau Claire River bridge and removed derails which had been on the east end of the bridge on the westward track.
	www.2719.com /pages/tower.html (763 words)

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