Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mauritius was prospering in the late 1800.To progress further, it needed to modernize its transportation system. The introduction of a railway network was the logical answer. The network was quickly built and it soon provided service to most of the island. Due to persistent unprofitability from 1948 to 1953, the network was finally closed in 1964. The railway network was a key factor in the socio-economic development of Mauritius during its period of operation. Mauritius was developing rapidly in the 1860s, as such, introduction of a railway network was essential for the future development of the island. With Port-Louis as hub, the railway network quickly developed and was soon covering most of...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
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...
ISBN: 978-3-6399-6969-6
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
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...
ISBN: 978-6-1304-4464-8
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
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...
ISBN: 978-6-1305-7292-1
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
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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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In 2005, there was no Rail Transport in Niger. However a proposal had surfaced for India to finance and build a rail connection from landlocked Niger and Burkina Faso to join seaports in Togo and Benin. Niger officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east. Niger covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km2, over 80 percent of which is covered by the Sahara desert. The country's predominantly Islamic population of just above 15,000,000 is mostly clustered in the far south and west of the nation. The...
ISBN: 978-6-1320-1294-4
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail transport in Fiji exists to move cut sugar cane to crushing mills. There used to be two horse-drawn street tramway systems, some other passenger systems, an underground mine system and some tramways on construction projects. Tramways have been used to transport sugar cane from the fields to the mill since 1876 when a 2.4-kilometre (1.5 mi) horse tramway was constructed on the Selia Levu estate on the island of Taveuni. The Holmhurst Mill on Tavenui had tramways from 1882 of 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge. A tramway was also built on Mago Island Most cane tramways were of 610 mm (2 ft) gauge, on the main islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. Steam engines were used, later replaced with diesel...
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail Locomotive No. 220 is an exhibition building at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont.In 1915 the American Locomotive Company of Schenectady, New York built the Rail Locomotive No. 220, the last coal-burning, ten-wheeler steam engine used on the Central Vermont Railway. Because it possessed a medium-sized 4-6-0 engine (4 leading wheels, 6 driving wheels, and 0 trailing small wheels), the No. 220 served double duty pulling both freight and passenger trains. No. 220 became known as the “Locomotive of the Presidents” because of its use on special trains carrying Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower.The steam engine persisted as the only type of...
ISBN: 978-3-6399-7037-1
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail transport in Spain operates on four rail gauges and services are operated by a variety of private and public operators. The total route length in 2004 was 14,781 km (8,791 km electrified): Most railways are operated by RENFE; metre and narrow-gauge lines are operated by FEVE and other carriers in individual autonomous communities. It is proposed to build or convert more lines to standard gauge, including some dual gauging of broad-gauge lines, especially where these lines link to France, including platforms to be heightened. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail Wheel Factory (RWF) at Yelahanka, Bangalore is a premier manufacturing unit of Indian Railways, which is engaged in the production of wheels, axles and wheel sets of railroad wagons, coaches and locomotives for the use of the Indian Railways and select overseas customers. It was commissioned in 1984 to manufacture wheels and axles for the Indian Railways. The plant has many unique and modern features incorporating state of art development in technology and designs. For example, the civil engineering structures are planned on with modern architectural concepts; the cast steel technology used in the manufacture of wheels uses the scrap steel collected from Railways own workshops as raw...
ISBN: 978-3-6399-6790-6
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In Hong Kong, the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC), which currently running East Rail, West Rail and Light Rail uses 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1?2 in). The Mass Transit Railway uses 1,432 mm (4 ft 8+3?8 in) gauge, 3 mm (?in) narrower than standard gauge. A new railway line across the Tsing Ma Bridge, an extension to the 1,432 mm gauge Tung Chung Line. This 3 mm difference should cause no more problems than the 4 mm (5?32in) difference causes between Russia and Finland or the former 8 mm (5?16in) difference between Spain and Portugal. Hong Kong Tramways, which has been operating tram service on Hong Kong Island since 1904, uses 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge. The Kowloon-Canton Railway (now East...
ISBN: 978-3-6399-7148-4
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* September - a 128-km line with 12 stations is planned to start from the junction of the north-south railway at Di An Station and link to Loc Ninh township of Binh Phuoc, which borders Cambodia. Several maps already show this line. * Vietnam Railways has awarded a VN$150 billion ($US9.5 million) five-year contract to Japan Transportation Consultants, the Pacific Consultants International Group, and the Japan Railway Technical Service (Jarts) to provide consultancy services for a VN$2.47 trillion project to improve bridge and railway safety on the Ha Noi-Ho Chi Minh City main line. Under the project, 44 bridges and 37.6 km of railway will be refurbished, two railway bridges and a station at Ninh Binh will be built, and 23 track machines...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The TAZARA Railway (also called the Uhuru Railway, from the Swahili word for Freedom, and the Tanzam Railway) was built between 1970 and 1975 by the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (abbreviated to 'TAZARA') to serve landlocked Zambia as an alternative to rail lines via Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), South Africa, and Mozambique. The railroad was a turnkey project financed and executed by the People's Republic of China. Total costs were about US $500 million, making it the largest foreign-aid project ever undertaken by China. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A rail car mover is a road-rail vehicle (capable of travelling on both roads and rail tracks) fitted with couplers for moving small numbers of railroad cars around in a rail siding or small yard. They are extensively used by railroad customers because they are cheaper than owning a switcher locomotive, more convenient and cheaper than paying the railroad operator to do the switching, easier and more productive than manual moving of cars, and in addition they are more versatile since they can travel on road wheels to the cars they need to move, instead of needing clear track. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
ISBN: 978-3-6399-7272-6
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail transport in South Africa is arguably the most important piece of the country's transportation infrastructure. All major cities are connected by rail, and South Africa's railway system is the most highly developed in Africa. The South African rail industry is publicly owned. The first track for steam-powered locomotives was a line of about 2 miles (3.2 km) linking the Town of Durban with harbour point, opened on the 26th June 1860. Cape Town had already started building a 45-mile (72 km) line linking Cape Town to Wellington in 1859 but was hampered by delays and could only open the first section of the line to the Eerste River on the 13th of February 1862. Rail in other provinces started...
ISBN: 978-6-1320-1038-4
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The railway system in Ghana has historically been confined to the plains south of the barrier range of mountains north of the city of Kumasi. However, the 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge railway, totalling 935 kilometres, is presently undergoing major rehabilitation and inroads to the interior are now being made. In Ghana, most of the lines are single tracked, and in 1997 it was estimated that 32 kilometres were double tracked. A narrow gauge railway (or narrow gauge railroad) is a railway that has a track gauge narrower than the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1?2 in) of standard gauge railways. Most existing narrow gauge railways have gauges of between 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) and 3 ft (914 mm). Since narrow...
ISBN: 978-6-1320-1514-3
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail transport in New Zealand consists of a network of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge (Cape gauge) railway lines in both the North and South Islands. Rail services are focused primarily on freight, particularly bulk freight, with limited passenger services on some lines. Only Auckland and Wellington have urban rail systems, both of which are being upgraded and expanded. The railway network was initially constructed by the provincial governments of New Zealand from 1863 onwards. New Zealand's first public railway was opened in that year at Ferrymead by the Canterbury Province. The Canterbury Provincial Railways were built to the broad gauge of 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm). On 5 February 1867, Southland...
ISBN: 978-6-1320-1312-5
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The term adhesion railway or adhesion traction describes the most common type of railway, where power is applied by driving some or all of the wheels of the locomotive and thus it relies on the friction between a steel wheel and a steel rail. The term is particularly used when discussing mountain railways to distinguish from other forms of traction such as funicular or cog railway (rack and pinion). For example, the Bernese Oberland Railway "is a mixed rack and adhesion railway" Traction or friction can be reduced when the rails are greasy, because of rain, oil, or decomposing leaves which compact into a hard slippery lignin coating. On an adhesion railway most locomotives have a sandbox...
ISBN: 978-3-6399-7344-0
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Railroads in Costa Rica are owned by Incofer (Instituto Costarricense de Ferrocarriles), and are of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge. In 2006, Incofer operated suburban commuter trains from San Jose to San Pedro, Universidad Latina (4 km East) and to Pavas (6 km West). It also has trains to Heredia, plus freight trains San Jose - Caldera (Pacific port, 91 km). A private company - AmericaTravel - organizes occasional weekend tourist trains (The Tico Train Tour) from San Jose to Caldera. In 1871, a contract was given for construction of a railroad from Alajuela to Puerto Limon on the Caribbean coast passing through San Jose, under the government of General Tomas Guardia Gutierrez. The...
ISBN: 978-6-1320-1611-9
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The only railways in Somalia, the Mogadishu-Villabruzzi Railway, was built by Italy in the 1910s. The track gauge was 950 mm (3 ft 1+3?8 in), a gauge favoured by the Italians in Africa. The railway was dismantled in the 1940s by the British, and never restored. The Mogadiscio-Villabruzzi Railway was the railway of Italian Somalia, and connected the capital of Somalia with the Shebelle river agricultural areas from 1914 to 1941. It was built initially for the surrounding area of Mogadishu (Mogadiscio in Italian) after World War I. In the 1920s the Italian nobleman Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi had the railway extended to the Shebelle river colonial villages he was then developing....
ISBN: 978-6-1320-1040-7
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Argentina and Chile use 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) "Indian gauge" as well as 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3?8 in). Brazil uses 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in) (known as "Irish gauge", most common for passenger services and a few corridors in the Southeast) and 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3?8 in) (known as "narrow gauge" or "metre gauge", most common for cargo services). Exceptions are the Estrada de Ferro do Amapa North of the River Amazon, which has 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1?2 in) gauge and the new Line 5 of Sao Paulo Metro, which also uses standard gauge. Argentina (partly), Paraguay, Uruguay and Peru use standard gauge. In the past a few lines in Northern Chile also had standard gauge, as the only international railway between Arica...
ISBN: 978-3-6399-7118-7
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
In 2005, the Okinawa Monorail is the only rail line providing rail transportation in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. In the past, Okinawa Island had railroad, trolley, and horse-drawn streetcar service. Also, Minami Daito and other islands had rail lines to transport sugar cane and other commodities. The first rail line laid down in Okinawa was during the Meiji period when in 1902, in Minami Dait?, a line opened with handcars. Okinawa Island's first railroad opened in 1910, for the transportation of sugar cane. After many false starts, rail transportation began in earnest during the Taish? period. The Okinawa Electric Railway (the predecessor of Okinawa Electric Company), having received exclusive rights to this route in 1910, opened the...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rail transport in Latvia is done on 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+5?6 in) Russian gauge. The main railway company is Latvijas dzelzce?s. Historically Latvia had lot of different rail gauges, most notably 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1?2 in) standard gauge and 750 mm (2 ft 5+1?2 in) narrow gauge. In railway terminology, Russian gauge refers to railway track with a gauge between 1519 mm and 1,524 mm (5 ft) . In a narrow sense as defined by Russian Railways it refers to 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+5?6 in) gauge. The primary installed base of Russian gauge is across the states of the former Soviet Union (CIS states and Baltic states), Afghanistan, Mongolia and Finland, representing ca. 225,000 km (140,000 mi) of track. The Russian...
ISBN: 978-6-1320-1442-9
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! As of 2006, there are no trains in Nicaragua. All traffic has been suspended since September 2001, ending several decades of a steady decline. In the past, there were 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge railroads on the Pacific coast, connecting major cities. A private 4 ft 8+1?2 in (1,435 mm) gauge line operated on the Atlantic coast. First projects for the construction of railroads in Nicaragua were considered in 1860s. In 1873, the government signed contracts with J. E. Hollembeck Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1320-1306-4
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Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Liechtenstein's railways are operated by the Austrian Federal Railways. This arrangement is an exception to the more usual co-operation with Switzerland, such as Liechteinstein's use of the Swiss Franc as its currency and a common customs area with its western neighbour. The rail system of Liechtenstein is small, consisting of one line connecting Austria and Switzerland through Liechtenstein of 9.5 km (5.9 mi). This line links Feldkirch, Austria, and Buchs, Switzerland. It is electrified using the standard system in both Austria and Switzerland (15 kV overhead wiring). Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
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