Funny Railroad words that people should know to understand what I am Talking about, Feel Free to add in any terms I missed:
- Gauge-the Width of the Track, specifically the distance between the two rails, trains can only run on Gauges they were designed for
- ROW-Right of Way, The place a track runs
- RTs-Round Trips-times a train goes both to and from a destination in one day
- Rolling Stock-the physical cars that are used for trains
- Livery-the exterior pattern on a Train
- HSR-High Speed Rail, any section of rail that goes over 155 mph
- Higher Speed rail- any section of rail that goes between 90 and 154 mph
- Class 1 railroad- any railroad that makes more than 500 million annually, they are a set of 6 monopolies that control US Freight
- Freight-Cargo and goods that are moved by Rail
- Passenger Rail-Rail that moves solely Passengers
- Conrail-A public freight company run by the government in the 70s that was bought out by CSX
- CSX- one of the 2 large Freight Railroads in the Eastern US
- Norfolk Southern-The other Freight Railroad in the Eastern US
- BNSF-Burlington Northern Santa Fe-One of the 2 Big Freight Railroads in the Western US
- UP-Union Pacific-The other Western Freight Railroad
