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This is the maximum authorized speed through the diverging movement of a #15 Turnout.
What is 30MPH?
Excessive compressive forces can lead to this.
What is a track buckle?
Richard Nixon grew up dreaming of being a train engineer; in 1970 he signed this nation railroad into existence.
What is Amtrak?
This train route allows you to take your car with you.
What is the Auto Train?
This is the speed restriction for a 25% DWF found on a switch point that cannot be barred.
What is 30 MPH for 10 days, then 10 MPH?
What is a rail anchor?
The engine's working a little harder now because we're going up a 2.8% one of these; you'd call it a slope or an incline; railroaders call it this.
What is a grade?
If you took a train from Chicago to Milwaukee, you would be on this train route.
What is Hiawatha?
This type of frog contains a hold-down assembly.
What is a Spring Frog?
When CWR is cut or broken at a rail temperature below its RNT, this will be produced.
What is a gap?
In 1956 one of these railway systems was built in Houston, Texas; Disney's came 3 years later.
What is a monorail?
This train can take you from Los Angeles, CA to Seattle, WA.
What is the Coast Starlight?
A missing cotter pin is this type of defect.
What is an NCSD?
The speed at which the first train must operate over an area of track that has been surfaced.
What 30/25?
Conceived by Czar Alexander III, it was completed in 1916 & stretches from Moscow to Vladivostok
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
You can find Las Vegas, New Mexico on this train route.
What is the Southwest Chief?