This weeks theme is
"Railroad Tracks"
When I was growing up I lived very near a train station and there were numerous tracks crisscrossing where the trains would change directions.
I always had a fear of them because I thought the tracks were electric and would shock me !
I had to cross these tracks on the way to school and I would NOT step on them but step between them. To this day I have problems walking across the train tracks.
For information on trains here is what Wikipedi has to say.
A
locomotive or
engine is a
rail transport vehicle that provides the
motive power for a
train. The word originates from the
Latin loco – "from a place",
ablative of
locus, "place" + Medieval Latin
motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term
locomotive engine,
[1] first used in the early 19th century to distinguish between mobile and
stationary steam engines.
A locomotive has no
payload capacity of its own, and its sole purpose is to move the train along the tracks.
[2] In contrast, some trains have self-propelled payload-carrying vehicles. These are not normally considered locomotives, and may be referred to as
multiple units,
motor coaches or
railcars. The use of these self-propelled vehicles is increasingly common for
passenger trains, but rare for
freight (see
CargoSprinter). Vehicles which provide motive power to haul an unpowered train, but are not generally considered locomotives because they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as
power cars.
Traditionally, locomotives pull trains from the front. Increasingly common outside North America is
push-pull operation, where one locomotive pulls the train from the front and another locomotive pushes it from behind. In this arrangement the locomotive at the rear of the train is controlled from a control cab at the front of the train. Push-pull operation is generally infeasible in North America as, even if mid-train or tail-end "helpers" are provided, the front-end might have over 26,000 horsepower (19,000 kW), net for traction, whereas the mid-train and/or tail-end "helpers" might have only 9,000
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