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| Trains and Railroad Vocabulary Word List (246) |
| A) | Abandon, Accident, Adequate, Aid, All aboard!, All-clear, Amtrak, Appeal, Automation, Automation, Axle |
| B) | Ballast, Bankrupt, Baron, Billow, Blocks, Blue-collar, Boiler, Bolt, Brake, Brakeman, Branch line, Buff |
| C) | Cab, Caboose, Call, Cargo, Carry, Carry, Cars, Circuit, Cities, Class, Clerk, Coaches, Colored-light, Comfort, Communication, Commute, Commuter, Competition, Conductor, Conglomerate, Connect, Container, Controls, Controls, Coolies, Corporation, Costs, Coupler, Crew, Cross-tie, Crossing, Curve |
| D) | Denim, Derail, Detection, Device, Diesel, Dining car, Dining car, Direction, Discontinue, Disputes, Distance, Double-deck, Downhill |
| E) | Efficient, Electric, Elevated, Engine, Engineer, Equipment, Express, Extend, Extent |
| F) | Fast, Fast-track, Federal, Finances, Fireman, Fishplate, Flange, Flatcar, Freight, Frontier, Future |
| G) | Gangs, Gas-turbine, Gauge, Government, Grade, Grant |
| H) | Hauling, Heavy, High-speed, Historical, History, Hobby, Hopper car, Hotbox, Hydraulics |
| I) | Immigrants, Industry, Inefficient, Inspection, Interchange, Intercity |
| J) | Jam, Job, Joint bar, Journal box, Journey, Junction |
| L) | Label, Labor, Linking, Locomotive, Long-distance, Luxurious |
| M) | Machinery, Mail, Main-line, Maintenance, Major, Mediate, Merge, Metroliner, Model, Money, Monorail, Multiple track |
| O) | Oil-burning, Operation, Order, Overall, Overheat, Overuse |
| P) | Passenger, Passion, Piggyback service, Popular, Power, Precaution, Private car, Provide, Public, Puff, Pull, Pullman |
| Q) | Quality, Quantity, Query, Quest |
| R) | Railcar, Railroad, Rails, Rapido, Rate, Redirect, Refrigeration, Registration, Regulate, Repair, Retarder, Rights, Roadbed, Rolling stock, Route, Run, Running |
| S) | Safety, Scanner, Seats, Security, Semaphore, Serve, Service, Settlers, Shape, Shipping, Shop, Sidings, Sight see, Signal, Size, Sleek, Sleeping car, Smoke, Speed, Spike, Stable, Standard, Standard, Station, Steam, Steam-power, Steel, Stop, Strength, Strike, Subway, Switch, System |
| T) | Technology, Terminal, TGV, Ticket, Toil, Tough, Town, Track, Traffic, Transcontinental, Transportation, Traveler, Tunnel |
| U) | Uncouple, Unions, Unprofitable, Uphill |
| V) | Vibration, Vision, Vital |
| W) | Weather, Weight, Weld, Westward, Wheel, Whistle, Whistle stop, Work rules, Worker, Worldwide, Worn, Wreck |
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Do you know these train and railroad facts?
Kinds of cars on passenger trains: baggage, bar, chair, club, dining, dome, lounge, parlor, sleeping, tavern
Trains cross, valleys, mountain ranges, plains, rivers, bodies of water, hills, steep grades
Train and Railroad Initials mean:
TRAIN= Telerail Automated Information Network
ACI = Automatic Car Identification
CTC =Centralizes Traffic Control
ICC = Interstate Commerce Commission
Large line-haul companies: Burlington Northern, Inc., ConRail, the Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway; the Southern Pacific Company and the Missouri Pacific System
Unions: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, etc.
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1. How did railroads change the frontier?
2. Explain the Tom Thumb race
3. Discuss the significance of Promontory, UT in 1869
4. How did ConRail come into being?
5. Discuss three types of transportation
6. Railroads provide passenger and freight service Discuss and expand upon the differences
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