train

longest passenger train

2,540ft

Longest ore freight train

682 cars

Longest freight

780 cars long

Longest train

8 locos and 682

Union Pacific Railroad

A railroad that started in Omaha, and it connected with the Central Pacific Railroad in Promontory Point, UTAH

whistle

A thing a train blows to make people know a train is coming

railroad crossing

Advance warning signs are placed before a railroad crossing. These signs warn you to look, listen, slow down and be prepared to stop for trains or any vehicles using the rails.

flatbed

Also called flatbed trailer, flatbed truck. a truck or trailer having an open body in the form of a platform without sides or stakes.Compare stake truck.

gondola

Also called gondola car. an open railroad freight car with low sides, for transporting bulk freight and manufactured goods.

subway

Also called, especially British, tube, underground. an underground electric railroad, usually in a large city.

diesel engine

An internal-combustion engine in which the fuel oil is ignited by the heat of air that has been highly compressed in the cylinder, rather than by a spark. Due to the need for the engine to withstand very high pressures, diesel engines are relatively heavy; however, they are relatively fuel-efficient, especially when running at low power.

BNSF

Burlington Northern Santa Fe

Transcontinental Railroad

Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west

pantagraph

Electricity. a device usually consisting of two parallel, hinged, double-diamond frames, for transferring current from an overhead wire to a vehicle, as a trolley car or electric locomotive.

HO

Half O

el (elevated train)

Informal. elevated railroad.

lionel

O gauge

water

Often waters. this liquid in an impure state as obtained from a mineral spring

tender

Railroads. a car attached to a steam locomotive for carrying fuel and water.

tank car

Railroads. a car containing one or more tanks for the transportation of liquids, gases, or granular solids.

boxcar

Railroads. a completely enclosed freight car. boxcars, a pair of sixes on the first throw of the dice in the game of craps.

Train

Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.

grade crossing

The intersection of a railroad and a road at the same elevation.

Rocket

The world's first train engine made

Big Boy

The world's largest steam Locomotive

coal

a black or dark-brown combustible mineral substance consisting of carbonized vegetable matter, used as a fuel. Compare anthracite, bituminous coal, lignite.

model train

a child's toy consisting of small trains and a track

wheel

a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.

G Scale

a garden train

Amtrak

a government-subsidized public corporation created by Congress in 1970 to operate a national intercity passenger railroad system through contracts with existing railroads.

trolley

a grooved metallic wheel or pulley carried on the end of a pole (trolley pole) by an electric car or locomotive, and held in contact with an overhead conductor, usually a suspended wire(trolley wire), from which it collects the current for the propulsion of the car or locomotive.

railroad

a permanent road laid with rails, commonly in one or more pairs of continuous lines forming a track or tracks, on which locomotives and cars are run for the transportation of passengers, freight, and mail.

crossing

a place where two roads, two railroad lines, or a road and a railroad line cross.

crossing over

a place where two things cross over each other.

streetcar

a public vehicle running regularly along certain streets, usually on rails, as a trolley car or trolley bus.

coalcar

a railroad car designed to carry coal. a car for hauling coal in or from a mine.

Santa Fe Railroad

a railroad with the warbonnet paint scheme

underpass

a road (railroad) which crosses under another road (railroad)

locomotive

a self-propelled, vehicular engine, powered by steam, a diesel, or electricity, for pulling or, sometimes, pushing a train or individual railroad cars.

wire

a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.

N scale

a small train

station

a stopping place for trains or other land conveyances, for the transfer of freight or passengers.

track

a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.

Metrolink

a train in many cities

freight train

a train of freight cars.

passenger train

a train that carries passengers.

coal train

a train that takes coal.

car

a vehicle running on rails, as a streetcar or railroad car.

horn

a whistle

yard

an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings, used for storing rolling stock, making up trains, etc

tunnel

an artificial passage beneath the surface of the earth that cars and trains go through the middle of a hill or mountain

electric

an electric locomotive. Informal. a railroad operated by electricity.

electric train

an electric train is a train powered by electricity.

steam engine

an engine worked by steam, typically one in which a sliding piston in a cylinder is moved by the expansive action of the steam generated in a boiler.

ground level

at ground

fuel

combustible matter used to maintain fire, as coal, wood, oil, or gas, in order to create heat or power.

amtrak

fast train travel

freight

goods, cargo, or lading transported for pay, whether by water, land, or air.

diesel

noting a machine or vehicle powered by a diesel engine

rail

one of a pair of steel bars that provide the running surfaces for the wheels of locomotives and railroad cars.

Southern Pacific Daylight

one of the world's prettiest steam train Locomotive

power

operated or driven by a motor or electricity

railroad tie

railroads. any of a number of closely spaced transverse beams, usually of wood, for holding the rails forming a track at the proper distance from each other and for transmitting train loads to the ballast and roadbed.

bell

rings to tell that a train is leaving

Light Rail

smaller rail systems powered by electricity

bridge

structure built over a river, road, etc.

engine

the power to move the train down the tracks

downhill

to go down

grade

to go up

metra

train in chicago

oil

using oil, especially as a fuel:

steam

water changed to this form by boiling, extensively used for the generation of mechanical power, for heating purposes, etc.

street

what cars drive on

2-4-4-2

wheel arrangement

smokestack

where smoke comes out