Technology, Industry, and Agriculture

Railroads

Permanent roads having a line of rails fixed to ties and laid to gage, usually on a leveled or graded ballasted roadbed and providing a track for freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock. Cars are designed to be drawn by locomotives or sometimes propelled by self-contained motors. (From Webster's 3d) The concept includes the organizational and administrative aspects of railroads as well.

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Permanent roads having a line of rails fixed to ties and laid to gage, usually on a leveled or graded ballasted roadbed and providing a track for freight cars, passenger cars, and other rolling stock. Cars are designed to be drawn by locomotives or sometimes propelled by self-contained motors. (From Webster's 3d) The concept includes the organizational and administrative aspects of railroads as well.

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3 entry terms
  • Railroad
  • Subways
  • Subway

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9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, standards, statistics & numerical data.

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  1. J01.937w.690w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Railroads. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011890. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011890
  2. Railroads. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad
  3. Railroads. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22667