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Piedmont (train)

Index Piedmont (train)

The Piedmont or Piedmont Service is a regional passenger train operated by Amtrak and the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), running three times a day between Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina. [1]

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to three Canadian cities.

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Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach

Thruway Motorcoach is Amtrak's system of Amtrak-owned intercity coaches, locally contracted transit buses, through-ticketed local bus routes, and taxi services to connect Amtrak train stations to areas not served by its railroads, or stations which are disconnected temporarily due to service delays or track maintenance issues.

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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830.

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Burlington station (North Carolina)

Burlington is a train station in Burlington, North Carolina.

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Burlington, North Carolina

Burlington is a city in Alamance and Guilford counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Carolinian (train)

The Carolinian is a daily passenger train that runs between Charlotte, North Carolina and New York City.

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Cary station (North Carolina)

Cary is a train station located in Cary, North Carolina.

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Cary, North Carolina

Cary is the seventh-largest municipality in North Carolina.

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Charlotte Area Transit System

The Charlotte Area Transit System, commonly referred to as CATS, is the public transit system in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.

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Charlotte District

The Charlotte District is a line operated by Norfolk Southern Railway.

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Charlotte station (Amtrak)

Charlotte is an Amtrak station located on North Tryon Street, about to the northeast of downtown Charlotte.

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Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Concord Kannapolis Area Transit

The Concord Kannapolis Area Transit, operating under the banner Rider, is the public transit system shared between the cities of Concord and Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States.

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Control car

A control car, control trailer or driving trailer is a generic term for a non-powered railroad (US) or railway (UIC) vehicle that can control operation of a train from the end opposite to the position of the locomotive.

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Crescent (train)

The Crescent is a passenger train operated by Amtrak in the eastern United States.

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.

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Durham station (North Carolina)

Durham is an Amtrak station located in Durham, North Carolina.

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Durham, North Carolina

Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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EMD 645

The EMD 645 family of diesel engines was designed and manufactured by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors.

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EMD F59PH

The EMD F59PH is a four-axle B-B diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in two variants from 1988 to 2001.

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EMD GP40

The GP40 is a 4-axle diesel-electric road-switcher locomotive built by General Motors, Electro-Motive Division between November 1965 and December 1971.

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Fiscal year

A fiscal year (or financial year, or sometimes budget year) is the period used by governments for accounting and budget purposes, which vary between countries.

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Flag of North Carolina

The flag of the state of North Carolina is defined by law as follows: It bears the dates of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (May 20, 1775) and of the Halifax Resolves (April 12, 1776), documents that place North Carolina at the forefront of the American independence movement.

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GO Transit

GO Transit is a regional public transit system serving the Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada.

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GoCary

GoCary is the public transportation provider in Cary, a community in the Research Triangle urbanized area in North Carolina.

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GoDurham

GoDurham, formerly Durham Area Transit Authority (DATA), is the public transit system serving Durham, North Carolina.

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GoRaleigh

GoRaleigh (formerly Capital Area Transit) is the transit system responsible for operating most of the public transportation services in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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GoTriangle

The Research Triangle Regional Public Transportation Authority, known as GoTriangle (previously Triangle Transit and Triangle Transit Authority or TTA), provides regional bus service to the Research Triangle region of North Carolina in Wake, Durham, and Orange counties.

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Greensboro Transit Authority

Greensboro Transit Authority is the operator of public transportation in the Greensboro, North Carolina area.

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Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro (formerly Greensborough) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Greyhound Lines

Greyhound Lines, Inc., usually shortened to Greyhound, is an intercity bus common carrier serving over 3,800 destinations across North America.

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Hi tran

Hi tran is the operator of public transportation in the High Point, North Carolina area.

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High Point station

High Point is an Amtrak train station located in High Point, North Carolina.

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High Point, North Carolina

High Point is a city located in the Piedmont Triad region of the state of North Carolina.

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Inter-city rail

Inter-city rail services are express passenger train services that cover longer distances than commuter or regional trains.

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J. Douglas Galyon Depot

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Kannapolis station

Kannapolis is an Amtrak train station in Kannapolis, North Carolina.

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Kannapolis, North Carolina

Kannapolis (Kŭh-nă-pŭh-lŭs) is a city in Cabarrus and Rowan counties, in the U.S. state of North Carolina, northwest of Concord and northeast of Charlotte and is a suburb in the Charlotte metropolitan area.

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Kansas City Southern Railway

The Kansas City Southern Railway Company, owned by Kansas City Southern, is the smallest and third-oldest Class I railroad in North America (just behind Union Pacific Railroad and Canadian Pacific Railway) still in operation.

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Linwood, North Carolina

Linwood is a small unincorporated community (ZIP Code 27299) just south of Lexington in Davidson County, North Carolina, United States.

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List of Amtrak rolling stock

The rolling stock of Amtrak comprises 396 locomotives, 25 trainsets, and 1,553 rail cars as of the end of 2011.

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Livery

A livery is a uniform, insignia or symbol adorning, in a non-military context, a person, an object or a vehicle that denotes a relationship between the wearer of the livery and an individual or corporate body.

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Locomotive

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.

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Louisville and Nashville Railroad

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States.

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Lowboy (trailer)

A lowboy (low-loader in British English, low-bed in western Canada and South Africa or float in Australia and eastern Canada) is a semi-trailer with two drops in deck height: one right after the gooseneck and one right before the wheels.

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Mebane, North Carolina

Mebane is a city located mostly in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States, and partly in Orange County, North Carolina.

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Megabus (North America)

Megabus, branded as megabus.com, is an intercity bus service of Coach USA/Coach Canada and DATTCO (a non Stagecoach company, under contract) providing discount travel services since 2006, operating throughout the eastern, southern, midwestern, and western United States and in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

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Norfolk Southern Railway

The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I railroad in the United States.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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North Carolina Department of Transportation

The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) is responsible for building, repairing, and operating highways, bridges, and other modes of transportation, including ferries in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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North Carolina Railroad

The North Carolina Railroad Company owns and manages the 317-mile rail corridor that stretches from Charlotte to the Port Terminal in Morehead City.

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Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation

Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART) provides inter-city and regional public transportation for the Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, NC combined statistical area, known as the Piedmont Triad area.

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Piedmont Limited

The Piedmont Limited was a named passenger train operated by the Southern Railway in the southern United States.

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Pineville, North Carolina

Pineville (locally) is a suburban town in the southernmost portion of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina situated in the Waxhaws district between Charlotte, North Carolina and Fort Mill, South Carolina.

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Pullman Company

The Pullman Car Company, founded by George Pullman, manufactured railroad cars in the mid-to-late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century, during the boom of railroads in the United States.

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R-Line (Capital Area Transit)

The R-Line is a zero-fare circulator bus service that takes riders on a three-mile, counter-clockwise loop of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Raleigh station (Amtrak)

Raleigh station is an Amtrak train station in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Raleigh Union Station

Raleigh Union Station is a future intermodal transit station in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the capital of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States.

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Regional rail

Regional rail, also known as local trains and stopping trains, are passenger rail services that operate between towns and cities.

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Rolling stock

The term rolling stock in rail transport industry originally referred to any vehicles that move on a railway.

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Salisbury station (North Carolina)

Salisbury is an Amtrak station located in Salisbury, North Carolina.

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Salisbury, North Carolina

Salisbury is a city in North Carolina and the county seat of Rowan County, North Carolina, United States.

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Silver Star (Amtrak train)

The Silver Star is a passenger train route in the Silver Service brand operated by Amtrak, running from New York City south to Miami, Florida via the Northeast Corridor to Washington, D.C., then via Richmond, Virginia; Raleigh, North Carolina; Columbia, South Carolina; Savannah, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida; Orlando, Florida; and Tampa, Florida.

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St. Louis Car Company

The St.

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Star-News

Star-News is the daily newspaper for Wilmington, North Carolina, and its surrounding area (known as the Lower Cape Fear).

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Times-News (Hendersonville, North Carolina)

The Times-News is the daily newspaper for Hendersonville, North Carolina, and its surrounding area.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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Virginia Railway Express

The Virginia Railway Express (VRE) is a commuter rail service that connects the Northern Virginia suburbs to Union Station in Washington, D.C., via two lines: the Fredericksburg Line from Fredericksburg, Virginia, and the Manassas Line from Broad Run/Airport station in Bristow, Virginia.

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WRAL-TV

WRAL-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 48), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Raleigh, North Carolina, United States and serving the Triangle region (Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill–Fayetteville).

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Wye (rail)

In railroad structures, and rail terminology, a wye (like the 'Y' glyph) or triangular junction is a triangular joining arrangement of three rail lines with a railroad switch (set of points) at each corner connecting to each incoming line.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont_(train)

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