a retarder is a device installed in a classification yard used to reduce the speed of freight cars as they are sorted into trains. Each retarder consists...

Retarder may refer to: Retarder (album), an album by The Unband Retarder (chemistry), a chemical agent that slows down a chemical reaction Retarder (mechanical...

mix of oil and magnetic retardation. Magnetic retarders are similar to the electric retarder discussed below. A simple retarder uses vanes attached to...

Rotol Messier-Dowty Retarder (railroad) Sir George Dowty at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Concorde auction "Railway / Railroad Products: Freight...

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yards—with or without mechanisation by retarders. In the old non-retarder yards braking was usually done in Europe by railroaders who laid skates onto the tracks...

Illinois, is the largest switching terminal railroad in the United States. It is co-owned by six Class I railroads — BNSF, Canadian National, CPKC (the BRC's...

that the derailed wheel runs up the rerailer and back on to the track. Retarder A device installed in a classification yard used to reduce the speed of...

A rail yard, railway yard, railroad yard (US) or simply yard, is a series of tracks in a rail network for storing, sorting, or loading and unloading rail...

Delaware and Hudson Canal Company Gravity Railroad ('D&H Gravity Railroad') was a historic gravity railroad incorporated and chartered in 1826 with land...

received a new transmission with a retarder for dynamic braking and was repowered with new diesel engines. The railroad also placed an order for three trainsets...

braking. In this case, the torque converter or fluid coupling acts as a retarder in the same way as a water brake. Braking energy heats the hydraulic fluid...

manufacturers perfected a method of strengthening plaster by adding a retarder, which controlled the setting time, thus creating a viable competitor to...

"Considering the price of new lumber these days, it is quite possible a new retarder would be cheaper." On June 12, 1973, another trestle in the yard was destroyed...

railway station and classification yard and headquarters of Southern Pacific Railroad operations in Southern California. The site has been gradually redeveloped...

Jerome Hill (September 16, 1838 – May 29, 1916) was a Canadian-American railroad director. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed...

the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads, held during the construction of the first transcontinental railroad. The competition was to determine who...

which was Y-shaped, and Devon Hall, which was H-shaped. The Pennsylvania Railroad created a Pennhurst Station on its Schuylkill Division. Coal and other...

transit buses, do not already have an electric motor but use a secondary "retarder" brake that is effectively a generator with an internal short circuit....

patented a steel with exceptional mechanical resistance, primarily for use in railroad hopper cars, for the handling of heavy bulk loads including coal, metal...

was a railroad executive, having served as president of the Penn Central Transportation Company and its predecessor, the New York Central Railroad, and...

Royal Society of Edinburgh and Moses Taylor, who was one of the greatest railroad, iron, and coal company financiers and was president of National City Bank...

telephone line, but it too had failed. About 20 minutes later the Tokyo railroad telegraph center realized that the main line telegraph had stopped working...

by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and opened in 1888. The yard was used to interchange with the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad (WJ&S) during 1896 to...

recessive genetic disorder that is characterized by mild to severe prenatal retardation or disruption of cell division, leading to malformation of the bones...

tire will have higher rolling resistance on a paved road than a steel railroad wheel on a steel rail. Also, sand on the ground will give more rolling...

Hazard and White showed the way. The developments of the canal and then railroad system made transporting the anthracite exponentially easier, and by the...

installation and technical support of GRS railroad signalling systems in Argentina. Some local railroad lines that were provided with GRSA products...

Summit Hill Railroad, the first coal railroad and just the second railroad company in the country to be constructed after the Granite Railroad in Quincy...

decades, the Kansas City metropolitan area was considered the largest railroad hub in the U.S. in terms of freight volume, with over 300 freight trains...