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monorail
monorail railway system that uses cars that run on a single rail. Typically the rail is run overhead and the cars are either suspended from it or run above it. Driving power is transmitted from the cars to the track by means of wheels that rotate horizontally, making contact with the rail between... Read more |
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streetcar
streetcar small, self-propelled railroad car, similar to the type used in rapid-transit systems, that operates on tracks running through city streets and is used to carry passengers. Most often cars of this type are powered by electricity supplied through an underground third rail or an overhead... Read more |
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Qiqihar
Qiqihar or Tsitsihar , city (1994 est. pop. 1,104,100), S central Heilongjiang prov., China, a port on the Nen River near the Da Hinggan Mts. It is connected by rail with Harbin, Shenyang (Mukden), and Dalian (Dairen) and is a processing center for soybeans, grain, and sugar beets. Manufactures... Read more |
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Xuzhou
Xuzhou or Suchow , city (1994 est. pop. 879,800), N Jiangsu prov., E central China. It is a rail center at the junction of railroads serving Jiangsu, Shandong, Anhui, and Hunan provs. It also has an airport. Iron and coal mines are nearby, and the city has a small integrated steel complex. Other... Read more |
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Kettering
Kettering town (1991 pop. 44,758), Northamptonshire, central England. It is a road and rail center that manufactures footwear, leather products, and textiles. Industries include iron mining and smelting, cardboard and brush making, and engineering.... Read more |
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fatigue
fatigue in engineering, microscopic cracking of materials, especially metals, after repeated applications of stress. Fissures may be formed within pieces of metal during their manufacture when, while cooling from the molten state, they shrink and tensile stresses arise. Once a crack has started it... Read more |
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Light rail vehicles
STREETCARS Streetcars, also called trolleys, are power-driven vehicles that run on tracks through city streets. Prior to their invention, public or for-hire vehicles ran through urban areas: drawn by teams of horses or mules, the "horse railway" was of limited use, however, allowing only a few... Read more |
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Channel Tunnel
Channel Tunnel popularly called the "Chunnel," a three-tunnel railroad connection running under the English Channel, connecting Folkestone, England, and Calais, France. The tunnels are 31 mi (50 km) long. There are two rail tunnels, each 25 ft (7.6 m) in diameter, and a central tunnel, 16 ft... Read more |
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fence
fence [short for defense], humanly erected barrier between two divisions of land, used to mark a legal or other boundary, to keep animals or people in or out, and sometimes as an ornament. In newly settled lands fences are usually made of materials at hand, e.g., stone, earth, or wood. A fence... Read more |
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Trans-Siberian Railroad
Trans-Siberian Railroad rail line, linking European Russia with the Pacific coast. Its construction began in 1891, on the initiative of Count S. Y. Witte , and was completed in 1905. The completion of the railroad greatly affected the history of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and modern... Read more |
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Disasters should not strike twice in the same place
...scattered over rail lines in to Paddington. The search for culprits can sometimes seem equally...that the new rail companies have...railroad has made off with the dosh...services they run as do publicly...crash? There is sometimes, in the rush...down the one engines of ... |
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Save on car rentals in Europe with these 11 tips.(Going Places)(The Intrepid...
...around - a search engine such as Kayak...rental agent run the numbers...scenarios. Sometimes picking up or dropping off a day early...up/drop-off cities. Trade...up and drop off from a downtown...Look into the rail-and-drive... |
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CRAFT-BREW INVESTORS SEE FLAT RETURNS.(Business)(Column)
...an Internet search engine and a microbrewery...use dusting off that one...can take. Sometimes investors are...entire market. Sometimes they're overexuberantly...put ties and rails on the ground and run a few trains...will be long-run winners (ethanol... |
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ebay W.Va.: While the state's no longer up for bid, it seems everything else...
...and pulled it off. All you have...the site's search engine and you'll...who helps run MasterImage...makes money off West Virginians...and History search for West Virginia...Martinsburg rail strike in an...History. "Sometimes someone will... |
 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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On the Slow track
...approaching red engines of the Acadian...viability of rail travel in the...Amtrak sold off its American...went out in search of another rail...was that it run through spectacular...and laws --sometimes conflicting...made its debut run right on time...their first ... |
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Samurai meets spaghetti western in Takashi's mad amalgam
...unblushing rip-off of the Japanese...with useful, sometimes essential...who set off on a long-distance rail journey in India in search of enlightenment...consisting of engine and 10 coaches...interiors, was run up and down...more strictly, rail films do not...Julie ... |
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A home for old trains!
...be in serious search of our bones...Room (cordoned off except for the...events at the Rail Museum, and...up and become engine drivers, can...mammoth steam engine blocking our...much coal to run it that the...s fun and sometimes hair raising...an oncoming engine, then ... |
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The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind., Jennifer L. Boen column: Uneasy eye on...
...listened -- sometimes. With the...eyes began to search for a station...conditioning off and rolled...turned the engine off. Looking...along a porch rail at Christmas...gas cans to run a fleet of...which he sometimes drives as... |
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Tin Lizzie is born; In a secret room at the Piquette Avenue plant, Henry Ford...
...by walling it off from the assembly...6 a.m. and sometimes until midnight...auto production. Search for efficiency...loaded onto a rail car behind the...small enough to run and care for...and its simple engine and transmission...four-cylinder engine paired with a... |
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AT RUSSELL, RESTORATION IS HIGH-END OLD SCHOOL
...handle. During off hours they can...Spyder roll off the tongues...A worldwide search for a craftsman...total, frame- off projects that...on colors. "Sometimes his choices...eight-cylinder engine ("The F1 McLaren...the rear frame rails. Chrome is...bill alone can run ... |
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