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	Third rail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The metro systems of Amsterdam in The Netherlands, Warsaw in Poland, and Moscow and St.
		The third rail system of electrification is unrelated to the third rail used in dual-gauge railways.
		The London Underground uses a 4-rail system where both the conductor rails are live relative to the running rails (the rails used by the train's wheels) though the positive rail has twice the voltage of the negative rail.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Third_rail_electric_system (3241 words)

	Third rail - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Well-known examples of rail transit systems utilizing a third rail include the New York City subway system, the Los Angeles and Washington, DC Metro systems, the San Francisco BART system, the Chicago 'L', most of the Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road in New York, the Toronto subway, and the MBTA in Boston.
		The London Underground uses a 4-rail system where the electrical return is isolated from the the running rails (the rails used by the train's wheels).
		These inherent limitations of third-rail systems have largely restricted their use to relatively low-speed, lightweight, trains of the type used in mass transit systems, although 750 V DC third rail is used on many hundreds of suburban railway route miles across south and southeast England.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Third_rail (2210 words)

	Train - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tilting is a system where the passenger cars automatically lean into curves, reducing the centrifugal forces acting on passengers and permitting higher speeds on curves in the track with greater passenger comfort.
		The term light rail is sometimes used for a modern tram, but it may also mean an intermediate form between a tram and a train, similar to metro except that it may have level crossings.
		In the USA the rail system is used mostly for transporting cargo (or freight).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Train (2082 words)

	Electric Traction
		The first experimental electric railway in the world is attributed to Thomas Davenport, a flsmith of Vermont, U.S.A., who exhibited a small railway operated by a miniature electric motor in 1835.
		At first electric traction was confined mainly to tramway work, but in 1883 the first electric locomotive for use on standard gauge railways made its appearance on the Mount Macgregor and Lake George Railroad in the State of New York.
		The regenerative system of braking makes use of the power developed by an electric train on a falling gradient to produce electric current (the driving motors serving as generators), which is returned to the power station.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r066.html (2793 words)

	Railroad
		Though the rail system was extremely slow at first and prohibitively expensive to build and run, the British were not to be dissuaded in their pursuit of non-animal driven transportation.
		Some rails were still made of wood, others iron and the first trains traveled at the pace of 3.5 miles per hour, significantly slower than the horse drawn coach which traveled at a speed of 9-10 miles per hour.
		However, the introduction of the system signaled the coming of the industrial age and many people were intimidated by the thought that the course of their lives was changing forever.
	www.gober.net /victorian/reports/railroad.html (1783 words)

	Electric Third Rail System on the New Haven Railroad
		Electric Third Rail System on the New Haven Railroad
		Heft does not believe that it is good policy to put in a costly duplicate system of piping, and he is of the opinion that satisfactory results may be obtained by exercising care and good judgment in the design and erection of a single system.
		The closed cars are each provided with sixteen electrical heaters, which are placed beneath the seats as shown in the sketch.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/3rail1.Html (1306 words)

	Technical Page - Maglev 2000 Propulsion
		AC power is fed to a separate set of loops in the guideway to propel the vehicle, which moves along the guideway at a speed determined by the frequency of the applied electric current.
		In the LSM motor system, the spacing between individual vehicles is automatically maintained at a constant value, regardless of the variations in external forces on them.
		Electrical power is fed from commercially available sources into the system at several places along the route.
	www.monorails.org /tMspages/TPM2000pro.html (289 words)

	1935 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		August 18 - In a meeting aboard a chartered train on the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway, officials of the Lancaster Railway and Locomotive Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Interstate Trolley Club of Trenton, New Jersey, frame the basis of the National Railway Historical Society as a merger of the two constituent organizations.
		The Glasgow Subway is converted from a cable car system to a third-rail electric system.
		February 21 - Jean Pelletier, Chairman of VIA Rail 2001-2004, is born.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1935_in_rail_transport (714 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Recreation : Trains and Railroads
		A light one- or two-car rail vehicle running through the streets is not called a train but a tram, trolley, light rail vehicle or streetcar, but the distinction is not strict.
		Most rail systems, including urban metro/subway systems, are highly subsidised and have never or rarely been profitable; however, their indirect benefits are often great.
		Rail lines that carry little traffic are often built with a single track used by trains in both directions; on rail lines like these, "crossovers", "passing loops" or "passing sidings", which consist of short stretches of double track, are provided along the line to allow trains to pass each other, and travel in opposite directions.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Recreation-Trains_Railroads.shtml (3913 words)

	Live from the Third Rail
		The specific issue in question in relation to the Dulles Metro Rail Project is whether or not trains traveling on a new line between Dulles Airport and the District of Columbia ought to speed underground when they reach the Tyson's Corner area, or whether they ought to fly above on elevated tracks.
		Following the incident, the system was refurbished, and trams were equipped with blankets, food, water, and toilets in case of emergency.
		Union Pacific Railroad has declared that you cannot take photos of their trains from METRA stations, claiming the ubiquitous and ridiculous "security reasons." How they are going to enforce stopping people from taking pictures of their property from someone else's property is really just the tip of the iceberg.
	thirdrail.smorgasblog.com (1342 words)

	Train - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.
		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.
		A system like this is used on the Channel Tunnel between England and France.
	www.voyager.in /Train (1759 words)

	The Third Rail - NCL in Philadelphia - page 1
		Some hold to the argument popularly advanced during the long years of automotive expansion and transit contraction that railways fell of their own weight—done in by social change and historical forces as neutral and inevitable as the rising of the sun and the movement of the tides.
		Others see a "conspiracy" where a handful of powerful corporations set their sights on competing business interests and executed a master plan which foresaw not merely the end of electric traction, but of all transit, to be replaced by private automobiles on public roads.
		It was not simply the conversion of individual street railway systems that contributed to the industry's precipitous decline, but the rapidity with which conversions took place.
	thethirdrail.net /0005/phil1.htm (524 words)

	Electric Boat
		Throughout these years, Electric Boat has maintained a reputation for leadership in a demanding industry that is defined by innovation, high technology, and the rigorous application of unrelenting quality standards.
		On 7 February 1899, Electric Boat Co. was formed, absorbing Holland's submarine company and the Electric Launch Co. of Bayonne, N.J. Rice served as the first president.
		Numerous advanced technologies and systems are included in the baseline Virginia-class boat, and the modular baseline design is so flexible that future technology insertion will be easier and more efficient than ever before.
	www.navyleague.org /seapower/electric_boat.htm (7486 words)

	The Third Rail Online Magazine of Rapid Transit Index
		Though Unification in 1940 added the big systems of the BMT and IRT to the municipally owned NYC subway system, not all the rapid transit operators in New York City came under the City umbrella.
		Not included in the expanded system was New York's "forgotten" borough and the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company and its 22 route miles of electric lines, which stayed with its parent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for another 31 years.
		By the 1930s electric railways were everywhere in the U.S. -- and disappeared in a dramatically short time.
	thethirdrail.net (662 words)

	Northwest Arkansas Light Rail - UrbanPlanet.org
		If this system is to become a reality, the people of Arkansas will have to be prepared to pay higher taxes to cover the local portion.
		Light Rail trains are not allowed to use the same rails as existing freight lines.
		I'm wondering whether it will be cheaper to have a light rail and having to buy the land and lay all new track or to go another route and have something that runs on existing Arkansas-Missouri rail.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=18238 (2460 words)

	SEG Other Third Rail EMUs and Locos
		The displaced 2EPB units were transferred to the Southern Region of British Rail and one unit survives.
		Subsequently electric traction returned to parts of the network by a further conversion of heavy rail routes to the Tyne and Wear Metro.
		This and a similar machine were equipped by BTH for both third rail and overhead 600/630V dc operation.
	www.southernelectric.org.uk /segpreservationother.html (596 words)

	Port of LA Waterfront Red Car Line
		For sixty years, the Los Angeles area was served by a vast network of electric railway lines operated by the Pacific Electric Railway.
		A third car, restored in the 1960’s from an actual 1907-vintage Pacific Electric car, is available for special operations including charters.
		The line uses parts of an old Pacific Electric right-of-way that continued to be used for freight operation long after the original Red Cars were gone.
	www.railwaypreservation.com /page8.html (341 words)

	THIRD RAIL DESIGN LAB // DYSTOPIA: HOSTILE TAKEOVER FOR CYBERPUNK 2020 RPG // EXPLOSIVES
		A tension of 405 grams applied to one trip wire is enough to create a break in the electrical circuit and cause the mine to detonate.
		Electric fuses set off a smaller explosion, a blasting cap, on the surface of the explosive.
		It weighs 30kg and contains 100 blasting caps (50 electric and 50 non-electric), demolitions tools (wire cutters, pliers, knives, etc), 200 meters of electrical wire, 500 meters of trip wire, an electrical plunger, 5 digital timers, 5 pull-release "trap" detonators for booby traps, and hundreds of meters of various fusing cords.
	www.thirdraildesignlab.com /dyst_explosives.html (2463 words)

	Village of Groveport - Village History
		The Scioto Valley Traction line, a third-rail electric trolley system, was constructed in 1901-1904.
		In 1904, the old coal oil lights gave way to natural gas, which in turn was replaced by electricity not many years afterwards.
		Later this distribution system was acquired by the Scioto Valley Traction Company who continued the service.
	www.groveport.org /sections/about/history.asp (2155 words)

	UrbanPlanet.org > Northwest Arkansas Light Rail
		Light rail, while a trendy, eco-friendly new bandwagon most American cities seem to be jumping onto, requires a huge amount of money to start and maintain.
		Jan 10 2006, 02:56 PM It would be neat to have a trolley system around the University, Dixon St., and the Square.
		There is already a Transit Systems in place in NWA that most people may be unaware of, although the Dial-A-Ride System is a joke due to the fact that the bus may be up to 3 hours earlier than you needed and will leave without you if you're not ready.
	www.urbanplanet.org /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t18238.html (6265 words)

	The Third Rail
		Just as the Romans began to dismantle their old client system (where they would support various small kingdoms on the Empire's edge to keep out invasion), their power began to decline as they had to devote more and more of their military and political assets to protect the new parts of their empire.
		Third Rail - where all the news is several days old.
		It doesn't reflect what the world is really like, and its attempts to force the international system to conform to it is making the entire system dysfunctional.
	thirdrail.blogspot.com (9866 words)

	THIRD RAIL DESIGN LAB // DYSTOPIA: HOSTILE TAKEOVER FOR CYBERPUNK 2020 RPG // SKILL SELECTION
		Characters who are berserk gain half their berserker level on all stun saves, and one third on all death saves.
		The HF jammer is configured against a particular targeting system on a successful difficulty of 25.
		Despite the sophistication of the system; the smart gunner must ensure that their movements do not overtax the system.
	www.thirdraildesignlab.com /dyst_skills.html (12575 words)

	Senator Cathy Cook Press Releases
		OPM Secretary Genuario assured us that these new cars will be equipped to run both on the third-rail electric system used by Metro North to New York as well as on the electrified overhead power line system used by Shore Line East from New Haven to New London.
		We also confirmed that some of the new cars will be reserved for an enhanced schedule of rail service on the Shore Line East runs between New Haven and New London, including weekend schedules to accommodate tourists.
		Also, we requested help to implement the Southeastern Connecticut Council of Government's proposal to develop an intermodal tourist transit system linking buses with trains so that visitors do not have to use their cars.
	www.senaterepublicans.ct.gov /press/cook/052305.htm (599 words)

	RailServe.com: World Railway Historical Societies & Preservation
		Electric Transport in Latin America - History, photos, and maps of past and present electric railways, metros, and trams in Latin America
		Rail Motor Society, The - Dedicated to restoring to operational condition 42ft CPH Rail Motors in NSW, Australia
		Suburban Electric Railway Association, The - Guide to the activities of the UK's largest EMU preservation group and a brief history of UK D.C. suburban railways
	www.railserve.com /Historical/World (5721 words)

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