Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. There are currently no functioning railways in Haiti and no rail connections with the neighbouring Dominican Republic. However, since 1876 there were various tramways and railways that previously existed. In 1876, a franchise for the construction of a street railway in Port-au-Prince was awarded to a group of New York City financiers. They founded the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de Port-au-Prince (CCFPP). Six open cars were ordered from J. G. Brill and Company of Philadelphia in 1877 and a tramway service connecting Croix des Bossales with Champ de Mars began in 1878. The venture was initially successful but...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Although Guatemala still has a network of narrow gauge 3 ft (914 mm) railroads, no passenger or freight trains currently run, except for charter tourist trains. Construction of the first railway in Guatemala commenced in 1877 and the first section began operation in 1880, connecting Puerto San Jose and Escuintla, being extended to Guatemala City in 1884. The line to Puerto Barrios, which still exists, was completed in 1908. The network was soon acquired by United Fruit, and in 1912 renamed IRCA - International Railways of Central America. The railroad prospered until 1957. In 1954, United Fruit had to divest following an antitrust suit and in 1959, a parallel highway caused a serious...
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The United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and previously consisted of Great Britain and the whole of Ireland. Rail transport systems developed independently on the two islands of Great Britain and Ireland, and most of the railway construction in the Republic of Ireland was undertaken before independence in 1922. Thus, the logical division to discuss the history and present-day state of railways in these areas is by geographical division, rather than the political division of nation states. * Rail transport in Great Britain discusses rail transport on Great Britain, comprising England, Scotland and Wales. Here, the vast majority of the railway system standardised on the standard gauge of 4 ft 8+1/2 in (1,435 mm)....
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Rail transport modelling utilises a variety of scales (ratio between the real world and the model) to ensure scale models look correct when placed next to each other. Model railway scales are standardized worldwide by many organizations and hobbyist groups. Some of the scales are recognized globally, while others are less widespread and, in many cases, virtually unknown outside their circle of origin. Scales may be expressed as a numeric ratio (eg: 1/87 or 1:87) or as a letter defined in rail transport modelling standards (eg: HO, OO, N, O, G, TT and Z.) The majority of commercial model railway equipment manufacturers base their offerings on NEM or NMRA standards in most popular scales. Данное издание не является...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Polish railways network consists of around 19,599 kilometres (12,178 mi) of track as of 2008, of which the vast majority is electrified using a 3 kV DC overhead line system. Although the network is generally electrified and well maintained, the vast majority of the track was laid by the Communist authorities from 1946 onwards or was, in a significant number of cases, laid before World War II by an assortment of different rail companies, when territory was part of different countries including, among others, the Deutsche Reichsbahn and Russian Imperial State Railways. The average age of Poland's railway network is now so high that many sections of track are limited to speeds of 100 km/h (62...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hong Kong's rail network comprises public transport trains operated by MTR Corporation Limited (MTRC). The MTRC operates the metro network of Hong Kong and connects the northeastern and northwestern New Territories with the rest of Hong Kong. Approval has been granted for the merger of the MTRC and the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC), following discussions to merge the two corporations for economies of scale and cost effectiveness. The first mode of rail transport is the Peak Tram, serving The Peak, the Mid-levels and the city centre since 1888. Tram started service along the northern coast of the Hong Kong Island in 1904. The British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway (now the KCR...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail Corporation New South Wales (RailCorp) is a statutory authority of the New South Wales government. RailCorp owns, operates and maintains the Sydney suburban and interurban rail network which is marketed under the CityRail brand; in addition to operating rural passenger services under the CountryLink brand.It also leases NSW interstate and Hunter Valley trackage to Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC), who also have an agreement with RailCorp to manage various country branch lines.It also provides freight operators with access to the rails of the Sydney metropolitan area.Rail Corporation New South Wales was formed on 1 January 2004 by the merger of the functions of the former State Rail...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail transport in Lebanon began in the 1890s and continued for most of the twentieth century, but has ceased as a result of the country's political difficulties. The first railway in Lebanon was built while Lebanon was part of the Ottoman Empire, with the French-established Societe des Chemins de fer Ottomans economiques de Beyrouth-Damas-Hauran being granted a concession in 1891. This railway was intended to link Beirut (now the capital of independent Lebanon) and the Damascus (now the capital of neighbouring Syria), providing Damascus with port access. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail transport in Northern Cyprus refers to rail transport in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Since the Turkish operation in 1974, rail transport in Northern Cyprus is inactive. A national railway company has never been founded, and old rail stations of Cyprus Government Railway are abandoned. Rail transport is the means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks. In contrast to road transport, where vehicles merely run on a prepared surface, rail vehicles are also directionally guided by the tracks they run on. Track usually consists of steel rails installed on sleepers/ties and ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail transport in Equatorial Guinea is nonexistent. There are no railroad operating companies, and no commercial or transport railways of any gauge laid within the country. There are 2,880 km (1,790 mi) of highways in Equatorial Guinea, none of which were paved in 2002. Equatorial Guinea's roads and highways are underdeveloped, but improving. During the rainy season, roads are frequently impassable without four-wheel drive vehicles. The chief ports are Bata and Mbini in Rio Muni and Malabo and Luba on Bioko. Bata, modernized in the 1970s, can accommodate up to four vessels of 20,000 tons each. There is regular service between Malabo and Bata. Данное издание не является...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail transport in Madagascar is primarily operated by Madarail, a subsidiary of Comazar. The government of Madagascar has granted Madarail a 25 year concession to operate the national rail line. The company is investing heavily in Madagascar's rail system. Operations began in 2003 with one locomotive; 7 more locomotives have been purchased from a Portuguese company. Further projects include a partnership with Logistique Petroliere to enable the transportation of petroleum products between 24 Madagascar depots. And according to the company's website at Comazar, new mining projects are being planned by American, Australian and Canadian companies due to the refurbishment of the country's rail...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mali has only one railway, the Dakar-Niger Railway, which includes 729 kilometers in Mali and runs from the port of Koulikoro via Bamako to the border with Senegal and continues on to Dakar. The track gauge is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3/8 in). The Dakar-Niger Railway connects Dakar, (Senegal) to Koulikoro, (Mali). It serves many cities in Senegal (including Thies) and Mali (including Kayes, Kita, Kati, Bamako). The line covers a course of 1,287 km of which 641 km lies in Mali. Construction work on the Dakar-Niger Railway began at the end of the 19th century under the French general Gallieni, commander of French Sudan. The railroad connected the Niger River with the port of Dakar, allowing the transport...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail Interface System (RIS, sometimes also referred to as Rail Accessory Systems) are the primary method of attaching accessories to small firearms such as assault rifles and light machine guns. This is done primarily in militaries and by firearm enthusiasts to improve the usability of the weapon being accessorized quickly and efficiently without requiring the weapon operator to field-strip the weapon. Most quality RIS systems are built to the M1913 Picatinny standard, which was the first standard developed. There are different styles of RIS, depending on how much the operator will be accessorizing the weapon. Basic systems that can be installed on weapons such as the previously mentioned...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The vast majority of North American railroads are standard gauge. Exceptions include some streetcar, subway and rapid transit systems and some narrow gauge lines particularly in the West, e.g. the isolated White Pass and Yukon Route system, and the former Newfoundland Railway. As well as the usual reasons for having one gauge i.e. being able to operate through trains without transfer arrangements, the North American continent-wide system of freight car interchange with rolling stock having the same standard gauge, couplings, and air brakes meant that individual companies could minimise their rolling stock requirements by borrowing from other companies. Peak demand periods varied over the...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Rail Spring Karkhana, located in Gwalior in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, is a major railway workshop serving the Indian Railways. Indian Railwaysis the state-owned railway company of India, which owns and operates most of the country's rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India.Indian Railways has one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world, transporting 20 million passengers and more than 2 million tonnes of freight daily.[It is one of the world's largest commercial or utility employers, with more than 1.6 million employees.The railways traverse the length and breadth of the country, covering 6,909 stations over a total route...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail Fence Cipher (also called a zigzag cipher) generally refers to a form of transposition cipher. It derives its name from the way in which it is encoded.In the rail fence cipher, the plaintext is written downwards and diagonally on successive "rails" of an imaginary fence, then moving up when we reach the bottom rail. When we reach the top rail, the message is written downwards again until the whole plaintext is written out. The message is then read off in rows. For example, if we have 3 "rails" and a message of 'WE ARE DISCOVERED. FLEE AT ONCE', the cipherer writes out:The rail fence cipher is not very strong; the number of practical keys is small enough that a cryptanalyst can try them all...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! As of 2006, the only functioning railroad in Panama is Panama Canal Railway Company, successor of Panama Railway - the oldest transcontinental railroad in the world. It provides passenger and freight service between Panama City and Colon. Historically, there were also narrow gauge railroads in Chiriqui Province (Ferrocarril de Chiriqui); they have however been abandoned in the late twentieth century. During the first half of the nineteenth century, travel across the Isthmus of Panama was difficult and dangerous. The need for a more reliable interoceanic communication grew stronger after the acquisition of California by the United States. The construction of a transcontinental railroad started...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail transport in Puerto Rico currently consists of a 10.7-mile (17.2 km) passenger metro system in the island's metropolitan area of San Juan and a small short-line freight railroad in the southern city of Ponce. Its history can be traced back to the mid-19th century with the construction of a limited passenger line in Mayaguez. Between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Puerto Rico's rail transport system expanded significantly, becoming one of the largest rail systems in the Caribbean at the time thanks to an economic boom in agriculture industries, especially the sugar cane industry. The rail system was expanded to include passenger travel with a direct line from the island's northern...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Iceland does not have a public railway system and though there have been three small railways none has formed a part of the public transport network. Probably the most well-known Icelandic rail project, the Reykjavik Harbour Railway, of 900 mm gauge, operated from 1913 until 1928 for the construction of the harbour breakwaters. The railway operated from a quarry outside the city, at the site recognised by tourists today as the Perlan hot water storage plant and revolving restaurant, from which it ran a short distance to a junction, passing loop, and sidings. This junction was located just south of a large field which became (and remains) the Reykjavik city airport. Данное издание...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail-mounted gantry cranes (RMG) are specialized yard container handling machines. An RMG travels on rails to lift and stack 20 or 40' containers in the yard area. The container is lifted by a spreader attached to cables. Rail mounted cranes come in a variety of models with different spans and overhangs. These cranes are specifically designed for intensive container stacking due to its automation and less need for human handling. Compared to the Rubber Tyred Gantry crane (RTG), the RMG has the advantages of being driven by electrical power, cleaner, bigger lifting capacity, and higher gantry traveling speed with cargo. Rail-Mounted Gantry cranes are particularly effective for rail/road...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A rail trail is the conversion of a disused railway easement into a multi-use path, typically for walking, cycling and sometimes horse riding. The characteristics of former tracks—flat, long, frequently running through historical areas—are appealing for various development. The term sometimes also covers trails running alongside working railways; these are called "rails with trails". Some shared trails are segregated, with the segregation achieved with or without separation. Many rail trails are long distance trails. A rail to trail may still include rails, such as light rail or streetcar. By virtue of their characteristic shape (long and flat), some shorter rails to trails are known as...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail transport in Singapore exists in three main types, namely an international rail connection operated by Malaysian company Keretapi Tanah Melayu, a rapid transit system collectively known as the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system operated by the two biggest public transport operators SMRT Corporation and SBS Transit, as well as several Light Rail Transit (LRT) lines also operated by both companies. In addition, local specialised light rail lines are in operation in places such as the Singapore Changi Airport, Sentosa, or within the grounds of the Jurong BirdPark. The sole railway line providing direct international connections is operated by Keretapi Tanah Melayu, with services commencing from...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first railway in British North America, the Champlain and St. Lawrence Railroad, was built in the 1830s to 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) gauge (today known as "Indian gauge"), setting the standard for Britain's colonies for several decades. Well-known colonial systems such as the Grand Trunk Railway and Great Western Railway, along with the Intercolonial Railway, European and North American Railway and Nova Scotia Railway later expanded the use of broad gauge. In 1851 the 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge was universally adopted as the standard gauge for the Province of Canada, and government subsidies were unavailable for railways that chose other gauges. The broad gauge was used until the early...
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