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The means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks.
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curve runoff
Railways; Railroad
The profile through which the super elevation of a curve is brought to the level of the tangent, or through which different elevations on a compound curve are connected.
steam heating
Railways; Railroad
A method of heating a train using the steam from a steam locomotive.
steam locomotive
Railways; Railroad
A locomotive powered by a steam engine. This has been the most common form of propulsion for most of the time that railways have existed.
stock guard
Railways; Railroad
A rail-high panel of material difficult for hoofed animals to traverse, used to continue a stock fence across a railroad.
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