of their first engagement at Falling Waters after Old Jack's First Brigade had destroyed all the rolling stock of the B & O Railroad.

The SNCB is permanently updating its rolling stock.

The mid-1950s saw the rapid introduction of diesel and electric rolling stock but the expected transfer back from road to rail did not occur and losses began to mount.

With the acquisition of Adtranz from DaimlerChrysler, Bombardier Transportation emerged as one of the largest manufacturers of railway rolling stock in the world.

It was based on a patent of 1883 by James Cleminson, and was once popular on narrow-gauge rolling stock, e. g. on the Isle of Man and Manx Northern Railways.

The increasingly elderly high-speed rolling stock has had its speed limited to 120 km / h for safety reasons.

However, the classification as a metro or rapid rail can be difficult as both may typically cover a metropolitan area exclusively, run on separate tracks in the centre, and often feature purpose-built rolling stock.

" ( This seating design can also be found on older New Jersey Transit and Long Island Rail Road rolling stock.

Rehabilitation of the remainder and of the rolling stock has occurred in recent years.

After the canal was opened, Motala Verkstad focused on producing equipment, locomotives and rolling stock for the newly constructed railways, beginning a tradition of railway engineering that continues to this day in the form of AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstädernas Aeroplanavdelning ( ASJA ) that was bought by the aeroplane manufacturer SAAB in Linköping.

They purchased and maintained the rolling stock — 6, 000 locomotives were in operation in 1880, which averaged 51, 600 passengers a year or 21, 200 tons of freight.

The S Stock, the newest rolling stock on the Underground, is designed to be more accessible, having dedicated wheel chair areas and lower platforms.

Much of the railroad infrastructure is still in a poor state, all of the rolling stock being inherited from the former Soviet Union.

Years of neglect of both the rolling stock and the right-of-way have seriously reduced the capacity and utility of the system.

Some train operating companies continue to use the former British Rail Rail Alphabet lettering to varying degrees in station signage, although its use is no longer universal ; however it remains compulsory ( under Railway Group Standards ) for safety signage in trackside areas and is still common ( although not universal ) on rolling stock.

Even when placing isolated rails not connected to any other lines, track layers usually choose a standard rail gauge so they can use off-the-shelf rolling stock.

Although a few manufacturers make rolling stock that can adjust to different rail gauges, most manufacturers make rolling stock that only works with one of the standard rail gauges.

Trains on the CMK achieve speed up to 160 km / h ( some sections allow up to 200 km / h, but the rolling stock has not yet been adapted to handle higher speed ).

Limiting car access to the city center, building new tram lines ( including Poznański Szybki Tramwaj ) and investing in new rolling stock ( such as modern Combino trams by Siemens and Solaris low-floor buses ) actually increased the level of ridership.

Track usually consists of steel rails installed on sleepers / ties and ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels, moves.

* 2008-proposed joint rolling stock factory with Turkey at Aleppo

It is a region of rolling hills and a broad plateau surface that extends into Syria.

South of these highlands, occupying a narrow strip on each side of the Tennessee River, is a country of gentle rolling lowlands varying in elevation from.

This is crossed by foot-hills and rolling prairies in the central part of the state, where it has a mean elevation of about, becomes lower and more level toward the southwest, and in the extreme south is flat and but slightly elevated above the sea.

The remaining strand is replicated either independent of conjugative action ( vegetative replication beginning at the oriV ) or in concert with conjugation ( conjugative replication similar to the rolling circle replication of lambda phage ).

The internal chamber is filled with a viscous ink that is dispensed at its tip during use by the rolling action of a small sphere.

BBC News ( also referred to as the BBC News Channel ) is the BBC's 24-hour rolling news television network in the United Kingdom.

These sheets are rolled at specific and discrete (" chiral ") angles, and the combination of the rolling angle and radius decides the nanotube properties ; for example, whether the individual nanotube shell is a metal or semiconductor.

Cape Breton Island is composed mainly of rocky shores, rolling farmland, glacial valleys, barren headlands, mountains, woods and plateaus.

Players take turns rolling two dice and whoever is throwing the dice is called the " shooter ".

A recent innovation is the French instigation of a rolling census programme with different regions enumerated each year such that the whole country is completely enumerated every 5 years.

Another roulette, formed by rolling a line on a catenary, is another line.

The northernmost part of the state is part of the Appalachian Piedmont with hills and rolling surfaces.

The local terrain is generally flat with a few gently rolling plains.

This shot is used often to get up and down on a short shot where there is danger of a shot rolling away or going out of bounds if thrown too far.

There is a kill screen in the game after round 99, rolling it over to round 0.

Progress cards granting victory points are an exception, being played immediately ( without regards to whose turn it is ), while the Alchemist progress card, which allows a player to select the roll of the white and red dice, necessitates the card being played instead of rolling the numerical dice.

Egg rolling is also a traditional Easter egg game played with eggs at Easter.

Terrain here is rolling, with occasional escarpments, lava fields, and geysers.

Assume a fair 16-sided die, where a win is defined as rolling a 1.

Metacentric height also has implication on the natural period of rolling of a hull, with very large metacentric heights being associated with shorter periods of roll which are uncomfortable for passengers.

Pill millipedes are much shorter, and are capable of rolling up into a ball, like pillbugs.

The shorter of the two lengths – the ' branch line ' – has a wayside halt station named Didcot Halt at one end while at the other end is the transshipment shed dating from broad gauge days, when it was used for transferring goods from broad to " narrow " ( i. e. standard ) gauge rolling stock and vice-versa.

This arrangement is a form of rolling highway, but operates over a much shorter distance than most rolling highways.

Alternatives for the future of transport in Leeds are now being discussed, in particular a Bus Rapid Transport ( BRT ) system, which the government claim can deliver some of the benefits of Supertram with lower capital costs due to unsegregated routes and greater flexibility but an on long term higher price ( due to shorter life expectancy of rolling stock ).