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
Fuck I forgot some terms
- Tram- also called a streetcar, this is a slower purely street running tracked form of transit
- Light rail-a cheaper form of train that is used for inner city public transit that often will do street running
- Heavy Rail-a more expensive faster grade separated inner city railroad public transit, ie: New York Subway
- Commuter Rail- a railroad that goes out into Outer Suburbs to bring them to a Downtown, ie:Metra
- Interurban-a railroad that connects 2 cities in the same urban region, ie:South Shore Line
- Trolley-A historical Streetcar, uses overhead wiring over 3rd rail
- BRT- Bus that goes fast, has a dedicated lane and high frequency, has a large amount of space between stops
Have a few more definitions:
- Grade-the level a transit system runs at, also used to mean ground level
- At Grade-runs on ground level
- Grade separated-Doesn't run on Ground Level
- Street running-runs in the street
- Below Grade-below Ground
- Mainline-the main line of a system, made to move large volumes of goods and passengers, ie:Northeast Corridor
- Spur: where a line splits off from the line it is on
- Double tracked- 2 tracks next to each other going in opposite directions
- Third Rail-a optional 3rd rail which provides electricity to power the engines of an electrified train
