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	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Trains also have a small frontal area in relation to the load they are carrying, which cuts down on air resistance and thus energy usage.
		Trains can travel at very high speed; however, they are heavy, are unable to deviate from the track and require a great distance to stop.
		Train whistles warn others of the presence of a train, while trackside signals maintain the distances between trains.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Railroad (3090 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of named passenger trains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In rail transport, a train consists of a single or several connected rail vehicles that are capable of being moved together along a guideway to transport freight or passengers from one place to another along a planned route.
		Passenger Trains of the Central of Georgia Railway
		Routing was CNOTandP to Chattanooga, WandA to Atlanta, CG to Macon, East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia (a Southern predecessor) to Jessup, and Savannah, Florida and Western (SFandW, an ACL predecessor) to Jacksonville.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-named-passenger-trains (323 words)

	Category:Named passenger trains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of North American named passenger trains (D-H)
		List of North American named passenger trains (I-M)
		List of North American named passenger trains (N-Z)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Named_passenger_trains (113 words)

	Rail transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Trains also have a small frontal area in relation to the load they are carrying, which cuts down on air resistance and thus energy usage.
		In all, under the right circumstances, a train needs 50-70% less energy to transport a given tonnage of freight (or given number of passengers), than does road transport.
		For example, despite a well-developed network consisting of 4 grades of trains and a widespread urban rail network in Seoul and Pusan, Korean National Rail is a nationalized organization that has never come close to having receipts equal costs (see Transportation in South Korea).
	hallencyclopedia.com /Rail_transport (1718 words)

	TRAINS Magazine - Railroad News, Web Cam, Railroading Video - Glossary
		To move in a train, not to support its operation, but to be properly positioned for later work.
		Named for the diamond shape of the center section of the intersecting rails if the lines cross at other than 90 degrees, which is often the case.
		Train operating personnel sent to relieve a crew that has reached its maximum legal time on duty, at a point short of the train's intended destination.
	www.trains.com /trn/glossary/default.aspx?list=4&fl=d (959 words)

	Railroads - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Trains require a propulsion mechanism: horses, or steam, diesel or electric locomotives.
		Trains can travel at very high speed, are heavy, unable to deviate from the path laid out by the track and require a great distance to stop.
		Possibilities for accidents include jumping the track, derailment, head-on collision with another train coming the opposite way and collision with a vehicle at a level crossing.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /railroads.htm (1773 words)

	Scotch Colonists, to NB 1873
		Especially at Stonehaven and also other smaller stations within the county, the special train gathered length of carriages, and while many partings were sad to see, sadder to feel, yet the public evidently believed that old acquaintances and friends were parting from them, and old associations for new scenes, but for their good.
		After the train passed over the North-Esk into Forfarshire only a few families joined at different stations; and after the Tay was passed and Perth, the older capital of Scotland, none joined.
		Train and water rush on together past old Dunkeld with that wonderful cathedral whose unknown architect Ruskin so much admires, as a man unequalled in our art degenerated times.
	theshipslist.com /accounts/ScotchColonists.html (3533 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Recreation : Trains and Railroads
		In rail transport, a train consists of a single or several connected rail vehicles that are capable of being moved together along a guideway to transport freight or passengers from one place to another along a planned route.
		In the United Kingdom, a train hauled by two locomotives is said to be "double-headed", and in Canada and the United States it is quite common for a long freight train to be headed by three, four, or even five locomotives.
		Long-distance trains, sometimes crossing several countries, may have a dining or restaurant car; they may also have sleeping cars, but not in the case of high-speed rail, these arrive at their destination before the night falls and are in competition with airplanes in speed.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Recreation-Trains_Railroads.shtml (3913 words)

	GC&SF Timetables
		Train 115 ran from Sealy to Matagorda and Train 116 from Matagorda to Sealy.
		Train 117 replaced 115 on Sunday only, and there was no return trip to Sealy from Matagorda between the Saturday morning departure until 116 left on Monday morning.
		The train numbers remained the same as the previous schedule, but the departure times were earlier for all trains.
	www.eaglelakedepot.com /ETTMatagordaDistrict.htm (1394 words)

	1942 Quiz Book on Railroads and Railroading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Passenger cars range in length from about 60 feet to 88 feet, the average length being approximately 72 feet, outside over-all measurements.
		One hundred seventy-two streamline passenger trains were in scheduled service on the railroads of the United States in 1941.
		The first passenger train to be equipped with fluorescent lighting throughout was the Streamliner "General Pershing" of the Burlington Railroad, placed in scheduled service between St. Louis and Kansas City on April 30, 1939.
	www.railwaystation.com /1942/ - !http://www.railwaystation.com/1942/04.html (1242 words)

	Discount Trains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Training professionals spend at least half their time away from the classroom tending to paperwork and performing support functions such as scheduling, registering and confirming attendance at events, preparing training rooms for instruction, evaluating the success of training efforts, and marketing training internally.
		Train the Trainer Training - Train the Trainer Training Training the Trainer In today`s workplace, performance-based training is complete, measurable, train the trainer training and active for your learners.
		Training professionals spend at least half their time away from the classroom tending to paperwork train the trainer training and performing support functions such as scheduling, registering train the trainer training and confirming attendance at events, preparing training rooms for instruction, evaluating the success of training efforts, train the trainer training and marketing training internally.
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	The Complete List of Old West Outlaws - Last Name Beginning with "B"
		Naming his post Julesburg, the station soon became an important stop on the Overland Stage Route, as well as a Pony Express stop.
		Allegedly, he had been planning a train robbery for some time when Hart approached him, needing money for her ill mother.
		He was identified as one of the outlaws when the Burrow Gang robbed the Mobile and Ohio train on September 26, 1889.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /WE-OutlawList-B.html (4107 words)

	California Zephyr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Names chosen for the vista-domed-buffet-lounge, diner and the vista-domed-observation cars were suggestive as to the type of service provided in each car.
		On September 16, 1953 passengers transferring at Chicago to PRR trains the “General”, “Broadway Limited”, or the “Liberty Limited” destined to such eastern points as New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Baltimore and Washington were offered train to train transfer of hand luggage for a charge of fifty cents per piece.
		Train 18 while traveling eastbound through Ruby Canyon proved to be a memorable trip for crew and passengers when on March 1, 1955 the first birth to take place aboard the California Zephyr occurred in Car CZ-11.
	www.wplives.com /operations/passenger/CZHIST_1/czhist_1.html (5994 words)

	Passenger Pigeons: Interesting Thing of the Day
		The word “passenger” in the name does not mean the pigeon liked to hitch rides on other animals (nor should the passenger pigeon be confused with the carrier pigeon, an entirely different animal).
		Passenger pigeons, a relative of the Mourning Dove, were remarkable in several respects.
		Around the beginning of the 16th century, passenger pigeons may have constituted as much as 40% of the bird population of the United States—up to 5 billion individuals—and, according to some estimates, were in fact the most numerous bird on Earth.
	itotd.com /articles/548/passenger-pigeons (1140 words)

	EPIC Page on Passenger Profiling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The watch lists include 325,000 names of terrorism suspects or people suspected to aid them, more than quadruple the 75,000 names on the lists when they were created in 2003.
		Passengers whose records match names on the lists will be subject to commercial background checks to verify their identities.
		Named as defendants in the FOIA case are the Department of Homeland Security, the Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Defense.
	www.epic.org /privacy/airtravel/profiling.html (5474 words)

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		Around the walls are panels listing every unit of the AIF, down to battalion and regiment, along with the colours of their shoulder patch.
		List of Supplemental Drafts: In 2003, MLS held a Supplemental draft to distribute players who were signed by the league after the SuperDraft.
		This station was named Albuquerque Lins, in memory to the SÃ£o Paulo politician Manoel Joaquim de Albuquerque Lins, which became the president of the province of SÃ£o Paulo from 1908 to 1912.
	www.ibiblio.org /hhalpin/homepage/notes/output.txt (18843 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Rail transport
		Like other forms of public transport, many railways are having to make considerable investment in order to meet new requirements for security in the face of recent terrorism incidents, for instance the Madrid train bombings of 11 March 2004.
		Possibilities for accidents include jumping the track, derailment, head-on collision with another train coming the opposite way and collision with an automobile at a level crossing.
		Train whistles are used to warn an oncoming train.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Railway (1778 words)

	Policy Study No. 235 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the past two years, passenger revenues, adjusted for inflation, have generally declined, and in fiscal year 1996, the gap between operating deficits and federal operating subsidies began to grow again to levels exceeding those of fiscal year 1994, when the continuation of Amtrak’s nationwide service was threatened.
		It urged a return of long-distance passenger trains to railroads, a shift in responsibility for short-distance trains to states, and transfer of the Boston-Washington line to a new regional agency.
		Private financing is improving passenger trains and underwriting a high-speed link, with a consortium building the $4.6 billion line connecting London and the Channel Tunnel; British airport operator BAA has helped finance the construction of a $396 million rail line to Heathrow Airport, which it will operate in mid-1998.
	www.rppi.org /transportation/ps235.html (9323 words)

	Rail transport explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads.
		Twin diesel locomotives of the Union Pacific refueling at Dunsmuir, California In 1806 a horse-drawn railway was built between Swansea and Mumbles.
		:''Main Article: Rail terminology Retro train "Costerina", [[Gdynia - Koscierzyna]] In Britain and other British Commonwealth countries the term railway is used in preference to railroad, while in the United States the reverse is true.
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	Re: Southern Pacific train numbers - Trains.com Forums
		Train numbers were a BIG deal on the SP, especially the Coast Line, which was ruled by timetable authority well into the 1960's and retained train order offices (Dispatcher changes to the schedule) well beyond that.
		Ryan and Shine's list of named Coast Line trains shows the reversal of the SP "normal" numbering pattern for train pairs began with the Daylight designation as 98/99.
		I notice "your train" the Beaver #11-12, or 23-24, or 13-14 conforms to your "west first, and is the lower number" theory.
	www.trains.com /TRC/CS/forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=858798 (1598 words)

	Sleeping car Summary
		During the peak years of American passenger railroading, several all-Pullman trains existed, including the 20th Century Limited on the New York Central Railroad, the Broadway Limited on the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Panama Limited on the Illinois Central Railroad, and the Super Chief on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
		Sleeping cars are picked up and/or dropped off at intermediate cities along a train's route so that what would otherwise be partial-night journeys can become (in effect) full-night journeys, with passengers allowed to occupy their sleeping accommodations from mid-evening to at least the early morning.
		The train's principal popularity is with older travelers; it has not won the same degree of popularity with younger travelers, who, perhaps not fully appreciating the time-saving advantages of comfortable overnight sleeping car travel, are strongly drawn to budget flights or the daytime TGV.
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	Transportation How To Guides \| eHow.com
		When booking train travel from scenic Guilin to Beijing (the capital of mainland China), you'll be traveling to one of the most picturesque cities in China.
		The train ride from Shenzhen to Guangzhou is about an hour long but gives you the opportunity to move easily from one bustling area to another while viewing the beautiful countryside in between the two locations.
		Traveling from one capital city to another by train is a unique experience as one goes from the heart of Scandinavia, across Sweden, and finally through the gateway to Northern Europe.
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	passenger trains : All About Train Travel Online : TrainTravelWorld.com
		Following is a list of all named passenger trains and some summary information about them.
		Carolinas Association for Passenger Trains Who We Are.
		trains and individual military cars moving in regular passenger trains, 3 in order for both cars to have access to passenger train conveniences.
	www.traintravelworld.com /passenger_trains/2.htm (446 words)

	Opportunities to Improve Passenger Rail Service
		Then its losses were $763 billion on 20.2 million passengers served, compared to FY 2000's loss of $944 million on 22.5 million passengers, and the $1.1 billion lost in FY 2001.
		In addition to their poor performance on a per passenger loss basis, the number of passengers using Amtrak's intercity service has been flat since 1996, but down from 1994 and 1995 levels when Amtrak first began providing separate counts of intercity passenger volumes, as well as for west and east coast corridor travel.
		To achieve the kind of passenger train speeds reached on the best lines in Europe and Japan on the ten or so prospective high speed rail corridors identified by the U.S. Department of Transportation (plus the Northeast Corridor) would require substantially more than the $12 billion proposed in the High Speed Rail Act.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Regulation/Test030702.cfm (2988 words)

	RailroadData.Com Railroad Links: Passenger Trains
		New links are listed first, then the most popular links, followed by the remaining links listed alphabetically by the site title.
		The film paints a vivid portrait of the men whose creativity and determination produced the streamliner, chronicles the tremendous impact the trains had on the U.S. during the 1930s, and explores the reasons why postwar America turned its back on the world's best passenger rail system.
		The train travels from the coastal city of Cairns through tropical rainforest and Savannah to the outback town of Forsayth.
	www.railroaddata.com /rrlinks/Passenger_Trains (1029 words)

	trains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Named after the Hudson River, the Canadian Pacific Hudson-type locomotives were first built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1929.
		The 2816 worked with the top passenger trains of the 1930s between Winnipeg and Calgary.
		Crowley and Broadfoot took the idea of bringing the train back to Canada to the heritage committee of the CPR in May, 1998.
	www.nsnews.com /issues99/w060799/trains.html (1831 words)

	Wikinfo \| Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Possibilities for accidents include jumping the track, derailment, head-on collision with another train coming the opposite way and collision with a vehicle at a grade crossing.
		Of 236 countries and dependencies, 143 have rail transport (including several with very little), of which about 90 have passenger services.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Railroad (1674 words)

	Trains To Toronto From Michigan \| Torontoseeker.com
		The last eastbound train to Toronto operated on April 22, 2004,...
		For a list of named passenger trains that operate or operated in areas other...
		The trains listed here begin with a letter from I through M (inclusive)...
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