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	railroad. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1917 the federal government took over the railroads for the duration of World War I. Although the Transportation Act of 1920 returned the railroads to their private owners, it also granted the ICC general control over the lines, including the right to mediate labor disputes, which had become an important factor.
		Railroads of historical importance include the Baghdad Railway, the Trans-Caspian Railroad, the Chinese Eastern Railway, the Transandine Railway, and the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
		Although the railroad played a significant role in the transportation of both passengers and freight during the 19th and early 20th cent., in the latter part of the 20th cent., the automobile and the aircraft eroded the railroad’s importance for passenger travel until the introduction of high-speed rail.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ra/railroad.html (2229 words)

	Rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1806 a horse-drawn railway was built between Swansea and Mumbles.
		Railways soon spread throughout Britain and through the world, and became the dominant means of land transport for nearly a century, until the invention of aircraft and automobiles, which prompted a gradual decline in railways.
		The Leiper Railroad in Pennsylvania was the first permanent railroad, opened in 1810, and the Granite Railroad in 1826 may have been the first to evolve through continuous operations into a common carrier.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Railroad (1939 words)

	CalendarHome.com - Rail transport - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The first railways in Great Britain (also known as wagonways) were built in the early 17th century, mainly for transporting coal from the mine to the water side where it could be loaded on to a boat.
		The Stockton and Darlington Railway opened in northern England in 1825 to be followed five years later by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, considered to be the world's first "Inter City" line, which proved the viability of rail transport, with Stephenson's famous Rocket steam locomotive.
		Railways soon spread throughout the United Kingdom and through the world, and became the dominant means of land transport for nearly a century, until the invention of aircraft and automobiles, which prompted a gradual decline in railways.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Railway (3090 words)

	Rail terminology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The difference between the mainly American term "railroad" and the mainly British term "railway" is the most obvious trans-Atlantic difference in rail terminology (see usage of the terms railroad and railway for more information).
		Many early railroads were broad gauge, for example the Great Western Railway in the UK which adopted 7 ft 1/4 in (2141 mm) gauge until it was converted to standard gauge in the 1860s - 1890s.
		Firebox: in steam railroading, a firebox was a chamber in which a fire would produce sufficient heat to create steam once the hot gases from the firebox were carried into the adjacent boiler via tubes or flues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Railway_terminology (5668 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Recreation : Trains and Railroads
		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.
		Railways soon spread throughout Britain and through the world, and became the dominant means of land transport for nearly a century, until the invention of aircraft and automobiles, which prompted a gradual decline in railways.
		The Leiper Railroad in Pennsylvania was the first permanent railroad, opened in 1810, and the Granite Railroad in 1826 may have been the first to evolve through continuous operations into a common carrier.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Recreation-Trains_Railroads.shtml (3913 words)

	Encyclopedia: Usage of the terms railroad and railway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The terms railroad and railway generally describe the same thing, a guided means of land transport, designed to be used by trains, for transporting both passengers and freight.
		The term railroad is almost exclusively used in the U.S. to describe conventional rail transport systems that are part of the national rail network, what until the mid-20th century were often described as steam railroads.
		Earlier railroads that were British influenced in management, engineering and/or construction also had a greater tendency to use the term railway as in Southern Railway and Chicago and North Western Railway, the latter also using the British practice of left-hand running.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Usage-of-the-terms-railroad-and-railway (608 words)

	Glossary of Railway Terms
		Generic term for a train brake which provides for control of the brake on every vehicle and is automatic to emergency stop in the case of loss of control.
		Railway slang for the occurrence of the draught being so strong that hot coals are sucked from the fire bed, drawn through the tubes and thrown out of the chimney.
		The term originated from the reversing lever quadrant which had notches cut into it to allow the lever to be latched in a particular position.
	www.trackbed.com /pages/glossary_terms.htm (14451 words)

	Rails-with-Trails: Lessons Learned, Literature Review, Current Practices, Conclusions, greenway planning, railtrail ...
		Railroads have borne the burden of litigation for many incidents on their property, even for crashes with atfault trespassers or automobile drivers who ignored obvious warning systems.
		Privately-owned Class I railroads (see Appendix A: Definitions) tend to be reluctant to grant non-rail usage of their rights-of-way because loss of right-of-way width at any given location could reduce the ability of the railroad to add main track and sidings necessary to provide increased capacity and serve customer needs.
		Railroads may be concerned that trail users might sue them regardless of whether the injuries were related to railroad operations or the proximity of the trail.
	www.americantrails.org /resources/railtrails/FHWArwt.html (2539 words)

	Union Pacific Railroad. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		It was reincorporated (1897) as the Union Pacific Railroad Company in Utah, and under the management of Edward H. Harriman the railroad was expanded, vastly improved, and stabilized.
		By 1997 the much-expanded railroad was plagued by accidents, late arrivals, and congested rail lines; federal regulators intervened, allowing two competing railroads to share Union Pacific’s tracks, to keep shipments moving (the track-sharing order was lifted in 1998).
		Today the railroad, with around 33,000 mi (53,000 km) of track in the West, Midwest, and Gulf Coast regions, is a subsidiary of the highly diversified Union Pacific Corporation; in 1999 the corporation split the railroad operation into three semiautonomous units (for the northern, southern, and western sections of the system).
	www.bartleby.com /65/un/UnionPac.html (575 words)

	Rail transport explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Twin diesel locomotives of the Union Pacific refueling at Dunsmuir, California In 1806 a horse-drawn railway was built between Swansea and Mumbles.
		This was soon followed by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which proved the viability of rail transport.
		However, railroad has been used historically in Britain and a number of American companies have railway in their names instead of railroad (the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway being the most pre-eminent modern example).
	www.wordspider.net /ra/rail-transport.html (1794 words)

	Glossary of Electric Power Industry Terms
		The term pH is a measure of acidity or alkalinity and ranges from 0 to 14.
		Railroad and Railway Services: Railroad and railway services include electricity supplied and services rendered to railroads and interurban and street railways, for general railroad use, including the propulsion of cars or locomotives, where such electricity is supplied under separate and distinct rate schedules.
		In terms of sulfur content by weight, coal is generally classified as low (less than or equal to 1 percent), medium (greater than 1 percent and less than or equal to 3 percent), and high (greater than 3 percent).
	www.eia.doe.gov /cneaf/electricity/epav1/glossary.html (8623 words)

	Hobo Terminology
		The glossary is mainly to documente terms from the golden age of the hobo, from the1880's until World War One, and you may find some contemporary hobo, railroad and homeless terms as well.
		The term "hobo" is thought to have derived from "homeward bound" soldiers or from migrant farm workers called "hoe boys." Others say that it is a corruption of a Latin term which means, "good man." A Civil War soldier may take years to work his way homeward bound.
		Railroad spike - Not a term but the actual object carried by many hoboes, to keep the railroad yardman from closing the door on them, which could result in him freezing to death or suffocating, as some freight cars were pushed into the rail yard and out of use for weeks at a time.
	www.hobonickels.org /terms.htm (20553 words)

	FDC Terminology
		The term is normally used for 19th century cancels which were created by local postal officials according to personal whim.
		Fillers, also termed stuffers, occasionally are imprinted with an advertising message or information pertaining to the stamp or cachet on the cover.
		Usages— Ways in which stamps are used, such as first class, printed matter, drop rate, surface rate to foreign destinations, air mail, post card, etc. Usages also include the use of stamps to pay for auxiliary services such as certified, insured, registered or express mail.
	www.afdcs.org /html/fdc_terms.html (3883 words)

	Railway - About Railway - KnowledgeIsFun.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A railroad or railway is a guided means of land transport, designed to be used by trains, for transporting both passengers and freight.
		The first successful steam operated railway was the Stockton and Darlington Railway in northern England in the 1820s.
		In Britain the term railway is often used to refer to the complete organisation of tracks, trains, stations, signaling, timetables and the organising companies which collectively make up a coordinated railway system, while permanent way or p/way refers to the tracks alone.
	www.knowledgeisfun.com /R/Ra/Railway.php (1171 words)

	MODRATEC MUD North American Railroad Signals
		North American railroad signals are generally governed by one of three guidelines: the Association of American Railroads' Recommended Standards and Practices, the Uniform Code of Operating Rules, and the Canadian Code of Operating Rules.
		Used on many railroads, individual color lights are presented on a signal head in a vertical formation, usually with the red light being the lowermost one.
		Railroads desiring to avoid stopping may amend rules accordingly, generally used on uphill grades where stopping is not desired.
	modratec.com /mud_sig02.php (2330 words)

	World Wide Words: Between the Lines
		At first railway and railroad were used pretty much equally, but by the 1830s the former had prevailed in British English, though the latter was taken to North America and became the dominant term there.
		Railway contractors gave vouchers instead of wages that were redeemable for food and other necessities only at the company store at inflated prices; this abuse was stamped out at the end of the century after much legislative effort, most of it ineffective.
		Most of these terms, in either country, are fairly obvious, but the term gondola puzzles me. My most detailed reference for US railway terms is The Railroad Dictionary of Car and Locomotive Terms, which I found in a museum in California.
	www.worldwidewords.org /articles/trains.htm (1863 words)

	Roads and Highways :: Recreation : Gourt
		In urban areas roads may pass along and be named as streets, serving a dual function as urban space and route.
		See also Usage of the terms railroad and railway; Ship transport.
		In original usage, a "road" was simply any pathway fit for riding ("road" is cognate with "ride", e.g.: ships ride at anchor in roads).
	recreation.gourt.com /Roads-and-Highways.html (245 words)

	EPA : Global Warming : Other Documents : Glossary of Climate Change Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The term "climate change" is sometimes used to refer to all forms of climatic inconsistency, but because the Earth's climate is never static, the term is more properly used to imply a significant change from one climatic condition to another.
		A term used to denote efforts to enhance plant growth by increased application of nitrogen-based fertilizer or increased deposition of nitrates in precipitation.
		A general term for buried combustible geologic deposits of organic materials, formed from decayed plants and animals that have been converted to crude oil, coal, natural gas, or heavy oils by exposure to heat and pressure in the earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years.
	yosemite.epa.gov /oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/Glossary.html (7965 words)

	UIUC Railroad Engineering Program
		Railroads, as well as other industries, emit air pollutants that are regulated by the federal and state governments.
		According to statistics released by the Federal Railroad Administration and the DOT Center for Climate Change and Environmental Forecasting, the transportation sector is currently responsible for approximately 27% of GHG emissions in the US and is expected to be one of the fastest growing sources in the foreseeable future.
		Railroads are now aware of their need to comply with the Stormwater Regulations and are beginning to be proactive.
	cee.uiuc.edu /railroad/RREC/Summaries03.asp (9019 words)

	Home Page of the Arizona Railway Museum
		The Arizona Railway Museum was founded and incorporated in 1983 as a non-profit, educational and historical organization.
		The interest and fascination of railways and trains has no boundaries and so railways of all kinds are included in the scope of the Museum.
		The Arizona Railway Museum is a community effort towards the acquisition, restoration, preservation and display of railway equipment, artifacts and mementos related to railways of the past and present.
	www.azrymuseum.org (231 words)

	American English
		British usage is "meter" for a measuring device and "metre" for the unit of length.
		In British usage a "stub" is a shortened end of something, often implying that the rest of the object has been broken off, the usage "stub one's foot" means to bring the foot into sudden, often accidental, contact with some obstacle.
		In British usage "yard" means an area of ground adjacent to a building with a hard surface adapted for use by vehicles and horses, a "garden" is a place where plants are grown.
	www.scit.wlv.ac.uk /~jphb/american.html (12175 words)

	Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Association
		The majority's concern with the railroad safety problems caused by drug and alcohol abuse is laudable; its cavalier disregard for the text of the Constitution is not.
		It is no answer to suggest, as does the majority, that railroad workers have relinquished the protection afforded them by this Fourth Amendment requirement, either by "participat[ing] in an industry that is regulated pervasively to ensure safety" or by undergoing periodic fitness tests pursuant to state law or to collective bargaining agreements.
		More fundamentally, railroad employees are not routinely required to submit to blood or urine tests to gain or to maintain employment, and railroad employers do not ordinarily have access to employees' blood or urine, and certainly not for the purpose of ascertaining drug or alcohol usage.
	www.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0489_0602_ZD.html (6001 words)

	Railway Terminology
		This page is a collection of terms used in railway construction and operation.
		He is responsible for handling the train to minimize slack action in the train (the banging back and forth in the train due to cushioning devices and slop in the couplers) and to minimize fuel usage.
		The trainmaster is in charge of railway operations on his territory, management.
	home.cogeco.ca /~trains/rrterms.htm (2438 words)

	usage - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about usage
		The way a word, phrase, or language is actually used in daily life or a period in history, which may not necessarily be grammatically correct.
		Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair.
		We heard afterward that he had given his evidence so clearly, and the horses were in such an exhausted state, bearing marks of such brutal usage, that the carter was committed to take his trial, and might possibly be sentenced to two or three months in prison.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /usage (201 words)

	Trains.com - What's the difference between railroad and railway?
		The stock exchange used the term "railway," but the companies themselves mostly called themselves "railroad." For example, the New York Central was called a railroad on its schedules, depots, etc., but was called the New York Central Railway on its stock certificates.
		There are dozens of large US railroads that use or used the term "railway" in their name.
		There is a difference between a railway and a railroad which I believe begins in the incorporation, it is a legal and a contractual difference.
	www.trains.com /community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=38283 (1153 words)

	Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum -- The Railroad
		The railroad is constantly being improved and enlarged.
		We also have a restored railroad "high-ball" signal located near the Sutchville Station, and an operating semaphore signal located near the water tower along Zoo Drive.
		The railroad has over 395 feet of steel and concrete bridges.
	www.lals.org /railroad.html (776 words)

	Railroad Slang
		The slang term is given first, with a translation to the right of it.
		Although the original meaning of this term is not in common usage, the explanation is not fit for polite consumption.
		Usage originally confined to south eastern states, it has since spread to the whole of Australia and parts of New Zealand.
	www.vnerr.com /news/slang.htm (3874 words)

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