A train is a connected series of rail vehicles propelled along a track (or "permanent way") to transport cargo or passengers.
Motive power is provided by a separate locomotive or individual motors in self-propelled multiple units. Although historically steam propulsion dominated, the most common modern forms are diesel and electric locomotives, the latter supplied by overhead wires or additional rails. Other energy sources include horses, rope or wire, gravity, pneumatics, batteries, and gas turbines.
Train tracks usually consists of two, three or four rails, with limited monorails and maglev guideways in the mix.
The word 'train' comes from the Old French trahiner, from the Latin trahere 'pull, draw'.
Read more about Train: Types of Trains, Bogies, Motive Power, Passenger Trains, Freight Trains, Trains in Popular Culture
Other articles related to "train, trains":
... The train was built by Arrow Dynamics and features 7 cars, seating 4 per car (28 total) ... airbrushed flames were added to the sides as well as a new airbrushed logo on the front of the train ... The train was repainted purple with green stripes for the 2009 season ...
... Distance 57 kilometres from KL Sentral to KLIA Duration 36 minutes Train Frequency Once every half hour Departure Times KL Sentral First train at 0533hrs Last train at 0003hrs KLIA First train at 0552hrs Last train ...
... The Putrajaya/Cyberjaya ERL Station platform at night Inside a KLIA Transit train Train passing the station The interior of a KLIA Transit train Train logo for KLIA Transit ...
... See Rail transport in fiction List of train songs Toy train Train game Rail transport modelling CategoryTrain simulation video games ...
... The line has three steam locomotives for passenger trains and one diesel locomotive ... railway is single track with passing loops at Capel Bangor and Aberffrwd which are operated by the train crew The line is worked by tokens, which authorise the driver to enter a single line section ... Aberffrwd to Devil's Bridge The Duty Officer regulates train running, giving permission for trains to enter the single line sections, recording train ...
Famous quotes containing the word train:
“Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to lay a train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“Children must eventually train their own children, and any impoverishment of their impulse life, for the sake of avoiding friction, must be considered a possible liability affecting more than one lifetime”
—Erik H. Erikson (20th century)
“The train was crammed, the heat stifling. We feel out of sorts, but do not quite know if we are hungry or drowsy. But when we have fed and slept, life will regain its looks, and the American instruments will make music in the merry cafe described by our friend Lange. And then, sometime later, we die.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)