63 relations: ABB Group, Allentown, Pennsylvania, Bow collector, Budd Company, Bullet (interurban), Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad, Current collector, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Double-track railway, Electric City Trolley Museum, Electroliner, Erie Railroad, George Jay Gould I, Grade (slope), Illinois Railway Museum, Interstate Commerce Commission, J. G. Brill Company, Jay Gould, Lehigh Valley Transit Company, Level crossing, Liberty Bell Trail, Masonry, Merion Golf Club, Metre-gauge railway, Millbourne Mills (Pennsylvania), Missouri Pacific Railroad, Mountain railway, Norristown High Speed Line, Norristown, Pennsylvania, Overhead line, Parkesburg, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Radnor Trail, Rail profile, Rail trail, Railway signalling, Red Devil (interurban), Rock (geology), Rockhill Trolley Museum, Sacramento Northern Railway, SEPTA, SEPTA Route 101 and 102, Shared use path, Single-track railway, Soil, St. Louis Car Company, Standard-gauge railway, ..., Steel, Strafford station, Strafford, Pennsylvania, Swedeland, Pennsylvania, Third rail, Track ballast, Track gauge in the United States, Trolley pole, Villanova station (NHSL), Western Maryland Railway, Western Pacific Railroad, York, Pennsylvania, 69th Street Transportation Center. Expand index (13 more) »
ABB Group
ABB (ASEA Brown Boveri) is a Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, operating mainly in robotics, power, heavy electrical equipments, and automation technology areas.
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Allentown, Pennsylvania
Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel) is a city located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Bow collector
A bow collector is one of the three main devices used on tramcars to transfer electric current from the wires above to the tram below.
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Budd Company
The Budd Company was a 20th-century metal fabricator, a major supplier of body components to the automobile industry and a manufacturer of stainless steel passenger rail cars, airframes, missile and space vehicles, and various defense products.
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Bullet (interurban)
The Bullet was a high-speed electric multiple-unit passenger car produced by the J. G. Brill Company in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia and Western Railroad (P&W) in 1931, and then similar, somewhat smaller single-unit, single-end versions were built for the Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad in 1932. Few were sold because of the Great Depression and the public transport decline in the 1930s. However, some of the P&W cars ran for almost 60 years.
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Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad
The Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, also known as the North Shore Line, was an interurban railroad that served the northern Chicago metropolitan area, and southeastern Wisconsin.
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Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad
The Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad (C&LE) was a short-lived electric interurban railway that operated in 1930–1939 Depression-era Ohio and ran between the major cities of Cincinnati, Dayton, Springfield, Columbus, and Toledo.
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Current collector
Electric current collectors are used by trolleybuses, trams, electric locomotives or EMUs to carry electrical power from overhead lines or electrical third rails to the electrical equipment of the vehicles.
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Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, often shortened to Rio Grande, D&RG or D&RGW, formerly the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, was an American Class I railroad company.
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Double-track railway
A double-track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single-track railway where trains in both directions share the same track.
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Electric City Trolley Museum
The Electric City Trolley Museum is located in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, next to the Steamtown National Historic Site.
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Electroliner
The Electroliners were a pair of streamlined four-coach electric multiple unit interurban passenger train sets operated by the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad between Chicago, Illinois, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Erie Railroad
The Erie Railroad was a railroad that operated in the northeastern United States, originally connecting New York City — more specifically Jersey City, New Jersey, where Erie's former terminal, long demolished, used to stand — with Lake Erie.
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George Jay Gould I
George Jay Gould I (February 6, 1864 – May 16, 1923) was a financier and the son of Jay Gould.
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Grade (slope)
The grade (also called slope, incline, gradient, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.
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Illinois Railway Museum
The Illinois Railway Museum (IRM, reporting mark IRMX) is the largest railroad museum in the United States.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.
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J. G. Brill Company
The J.G. Brill Company manufactured trams/streetcars (also, US: trolleys, trolley cars)Young, Andrew D. (1997).
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Jay Gould
Jason "Jay" Gould (May 27, 1836 – December 2, 1892) was a leading American railroad developer and speculator.
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Lehigh Valley Transit Company
The Lehigh Valley Transit Company (LVT) was a regional transport company, headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania that began operations in 1901 as an urban trolley and interurban rail transport company.
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Level crossing
A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road or path at the same level, as opposed to the railway line crossing over or under using a bridge or tunnel.
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Liberty Bell Trail
The Liberty Bell Trail is a suburban rail trail under construction in southeastern Pennsylvania.
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Masonry
Masonry is the building of structures from individual units, which are often laid in and bound together by mortar; the term masonry can also refer to the units themselves.
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Merion Golf Club
Merion Golf Club is a private golf club located in Haverford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, a township bordering Philadelphia to the northwest along the historic Main Line.
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Metre-gauge railway
Metre-gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre.
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Millbourne Mills (Pennsylvania)
Millbourne Mills was a flour mill owned by the Sellers family in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania, U.S., as well as the name of a former railroad station located there.
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Missouri Pacific Railroad
The Missouri Pacific Railroad, commonly abbreviated MoPac, with nickname of The Mop, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River.
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Mountain railway
A mountain railway is a railway that operates in a mountainous region.
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Norristown High Speed Line
The Norristown High Speed Line (NHSL) is a interurban rapid transit line operated by SEPTA, running between the 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby and the Norristown Transportation Center in Norristown, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Norristown, Pennsylvania
Norristown is a borough (with home rule status) in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Overhead line
An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.
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Parkesburg, Pennsylvania
Parkesburg is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad (or Pennsylvania Railroad Company and also known as the "Pennsy") was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.
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Radnor Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Radnor Township is a township with home rule status in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Radnor Trail
The Radnor Trail is a rail trail that travels through Radnor Township in south-eastern Pennsylvania.
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Rail profile
The rail profile is the cross sectional shape of a railway rail, perpendicular to its length.
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Rail trail
A rail trail is the conversion of a disused railway track into a multi-use path, typically for walking, cycling and sometimes horse riding and snowmobiling.
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Railway signalling
Railway signalling is a system used to direct railway traffic and keep trains clear of each other at all times.
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Red Devil (interurban)
The Red Devil was a high-speed interurban streetcar built by the Cincinnati Car Company for the Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad (C&LE) in 1929–1930.
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Rock (geology)
Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.
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Rockhill Trolley Museum
The Rockhill Trolley Museum is located at 430 Meadow Street, Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania, north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and south of US 22, the William Penn Highway.
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Sacramento Northern Railway
The Sacramento Northern Railway (reporting mark SN) was an electric interurban railway that connectected Chico in northern California with Oakland via the California capital, Sacramento.
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SEPTA
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is a regional public transportation authority that operates bus, subway / elevated rail line, commuter and light rail line, and electric trolleybus services to nearly 4 million people in five counties in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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SEPTA Route 101 and 102
SEPTA Trolley Routes 101 and 102The official name of the lines are simply "Routes 101 and 102", as indicated by SEPTA's official map and official schedule, also known as the Media–Sharon Hill Line, are light rail lines operated by the Suburban Transit Division of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.
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Shared use path
A shared-use path or mixed-use path is a form of infrastructure that supports multiple recreation and transportation opportunities, such as walking, bicycling, inline skating and people in wheelchairs.
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Single-track railway
A single-track railway is a railway where trains traveling in both directions share the same track.
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Soil
Soil is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support life.
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St. Louis Car Company
The St.
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Standard-gauge railway
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.
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Strafford station
Strafford station is a commuter rail station located in the western suburbs of Philadelphia at Old Eagle School Road and Crestline Road.
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Strafford, Pennsylvania
Strafford is an unincorporated community in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, located partly in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, and partly in Radnor Township, Delaware County.
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Swedeland, Pennsylvania
Swedeland is a small unincorporated community in Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States, in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
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Third rail
A third rail is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through a semi-continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a railway track.
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Track ballast
Track ballast forms the trackbed upon which railroad ties (sleepers) are laid.
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Track gauge in the United States
Originally, various gauges were used in the United States.
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Trolley pole
A trolley pole is a tapered cylindrical pole of wood or metal, used to transfer electricity from a "live" overhead wire to the control and the electric traction motors of a tram or trolley bus.
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Villanova station (NHSL)
Villanova station is a SEPTA rapid transit station near the campus of Villanova University in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania.
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Western Maryland Railway
The Western Maryland Railway was an American Class I railroad (1852–1983) which operated in Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
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Western Pacific Railroad
The Western Pacific Railroad was a Class I railroad in the United States.
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York, Pennsylvania
York (Pennsylvania German: Yarrick), known as the White Rose City (after the symbol of the House of York), is the county seat of York County, Pennsylvania, United States, located in the south-central region of the state.
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69th Street Transportation Center
The 69th Street Transportation Center, also known as the 69th Street Terminal or 69th Street Station, is a SEPTA terminal in the Terminal Square section of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, just outside the Philadelphia border.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_and_Western_Railroad