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Car-Brake.

open access: yes, 1875
Patent for "a means for the automatic application of brakes to the cars of a railway-train; and it consists in a loosely-moving draw-bar attached to the car by means of bolts passing through a central longitudinal slot, and having its sides wrought into ...
Kirtley, Fielding L.
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To the Clouds by Rail, Mt. Pilatus, Switzerland

open access: yes, 1905
The Mt. Pilatus Railway in Switzerland is the steepest rack railway in the world. First usable in 1889, it climbs the Esel, one of the easternmost of Mt. Pilatus\u27 10 peaks.
Keystone View Company
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Winter scenes at Ainsofar [railway station, carriages, tracks and several buildings next to or spanning the tracks] [picture] : [Syria, World War II] /

open access: yes, 1910
Part of the Hurley negative collection.; Condition: silvering.; "This is the summit crossing of the Lebanons between Beyrouth to Damascus. There are peeps showing the road being cleared & also the rack railroad.
Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962.
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Thermal imaging of railways to identify rack sections prone to buckling

open access: yes, 2006
A technique is described to measure the spatial variation of rail temperatures with a view to highlighting sections of railway track prone to buckling in extreme temperatures. Thermal maps of a section of test track were produced by equipping a personnel
Thornes, John, Chapman, Lee, White, SP
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Augustana Group at Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway

open access: yes, 2011
Augustana Group at Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway. The Pike's Peak Cog Road is acknowledged by all to be a marvel of engineering, and the trip over it is one that is taken by almost every pleasure-seeker visiting Colorado and having a desire to see ...
J. G. Hiestand
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Safety Study of High-Speed Collisions between Trains and Live Intruder. [PDF]

open access: yesSensors (Basel), 2022
Zhang H   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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