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Railcar mover
A railcar mover is a self-propelled, usually bi-modal road-rail vehicle that travels on tires and rails to move railroad cars short distances without a locomotive, in industrial yards and docks.
Railfan
A railfan, also called a trainspotter or railroad buff, is a person with a recreational interest in trains and rail transport, expressed through photography, radio scanning, modeling, and preserving rolling stock.
Railgun
A railgun, also known as an electromagnetic railgun, is an electromagnetic launcher that accelerates a conductive projectile along two parallel rails, reaching speeds of 2 to 3 km/s.
Railmotor
A railmotor, also written rail motor, is a self-propelled railway passenger coach with its steam engine built into the body, pioneered in Britain from the 1840s.
Railroad
"Railroad" (Russian: «Железная дорога», "The Railway") is a poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, written in 1864, on the human cost of building the Nikolaevskaya railway between Saint Petersburg and Moscow.
Railroad car
A railroad car, also called a railway carriage, wagon, or railcar, is a non-self-propelled railway vehicle designed to carry freight, passengers, or specialized equipment, hauled by one or more locomotives.
Railroad switch
A railroad switch, also called a turnout or, in British usage, points, is a mechanical installation that moves tapered rails to direct a train from one track onto another.
Railroad tie
A railroad tie, also called a railway sleeper, is a transverse support laid on ballast beneath two rails, holding them at gauge and spreading wheel loads into the roadbed.
Railroad Tigers (铁道飞虎)
Railroad Tigers (铁道飞虎, Rail Road Tigers) is a 2016 Chinese action-comedy war film directed by Ding Sheng, starring Jackie Chan as railroad-worker guerrilla leader Ma Yuan; released December 23, 2016, grossing about 7亿 yuan.
Railtrack
Railtrack was the British company that owned and managed most of Britain's railway infrastructure, including track, signaling, and stations, from 1994 until it entered administration in 2001.
Railway (deployment platform)
Railway is a platform-as-a-service company founded in 2020 by Jake Cooper that deploys applications from GitHub, a local directory, or a Docker image without server configuration, billed by the second.
Railway accident
A railway accident, also called a train wreck or railroad accident, is an unintended rail operation event causing injuries or damage to trains, track, and signals, most often from human error.
Railway air brake
The railway air brake, also called the Westinghouse brake, is a train braking system using compressed air, patented in its fail-safe automatic form by George Westinghouse in 1872.
Railway brake
A railway brake, also called a train brake, is the system that slows and stops a train, most often the fail-safe automatic air brake George Westinghouse patented in 1873.
Railway bridge failures
A railway bridge failure is the loss of structural function of a bridge carrying rail traffic, caused by flood scour, fatigue cracks, collisions, and material degradation.
Railway bridges and viaducts by country
Railway bridges and viaducts by country is a country-by-country survey of notable rail bridges, from the record 1,408 m Yavuz Sultan Selim span to the world's highest bridges in China.
Railway bridges of North American Class I railroads
The railway bridges of North American Class I railroads are privately owned bridges inspected at least annually under federal rules; CSX reports more than 13,800 and CN 7,250.
Railway Claims Tribunal
The Railway Claims Tribunal is a quasi-judicial body in India that decides claims for lost goods, injuries, and deaths in railway accidents. It operates 23 benches across the country.
Railway coupling
Railway coupling, also called railroad coupling, is the mechanism connecting rail vehicles and transmitting tractive and braking forces, ranging from manual buffer-and-screw couplings to the knuckle coupler and automatic couplers.
Railway crossing sign
A railway crossing sign is a traffic control device at highway-rail grade crossings warning road traffic to yield to trains; in the United States it is the X-shaped Crossbuck.
Railway electrification
Railway electrification supplies trains with power through overhead lines or conductor rails, so trains need not carry fuel, and 35% of the world's network was electrified in 2022.
Railway ferry
A railway ferry, also called a train ferry, is a ship with tracks on its deck that carries railway vehicles across water where bridges or tunnels are impractical.
Railway Guerrilla
Railway Guerrilla (铁道游击队) is a 1956 Shanghai Film Studio war film directed by Zhao Ming, adapted from Liu Zhixia's 1954 novel about the real Lunan Railway Brigade raiding Japanese trains in Shandong; famous for its song 'Playing My Beloved Tu Pipa'.
Railway gun
A railway gun is heavy artillery mounted on a railway carriage, first used in the American Civil War and most widely in World War I.
Railway Nationalization Act
The Railway Nationalization Act (鉄道国有法, Tetsudō Kokuyū-hō) was enacted in Japan in 1906, acquiring 17 private companies and about 4,800 km of track by 1907, giving the state roughly nine tenths of the rail network.
Railway platform
A railway platform, or train platform, is a raised paved area alongside a track at a station from which passengers board and alight trains, mainly in island and side forms.
Railway Protection Force (रेलवे सुरक्षा बल)
The Railway Protection Force (रेलवे सुरक्षा बल) is an armed force of the Union of India under the Ministry of Railways, created by the Railway Protection Force Act, 1957.
Railway roundhouse
A railway roundhouse, also called a railroad roundhouse, is a circular engine shed whose stabling and repair roads radiate from a central turntable, letting locomotives be turned and spotted with a single movement.
Railway Safety Regulator
The Railway Safety Regulator is the South African public entity that oversees and enforces railway safety, established in 2002 and continued under the Railway Safety Act of 2024.
Railway semaphore signal
A railway semaphore signal is a fixed signal whose pivoted arm shows stop when horizontal and clear when inclined, introduced in Britain in 1841 and dominant through the steam era.