Category
page 1Rolling stock
railroad car
vehicle used for carrying cargo or passengers on rail transport system
rolling stock
vehicles, both powered & unpowered, on a rolling stock
switcher
small railroad locomotive intended for assembling trains
norry
thumb|right|250px|A norry being disassembled
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A norry or nori (, , from the French word for lorry) was an improvised rail vehicle service from Cambodia. Lonely Planet describes it as "Cambodia's bamboo train". The trains ran at speeds of up to on the metre gauge tracks around Battambang and Poipet. A scheduled service run by the Government also operates, but is slower at . The rest of the network, originally built by the French colonial government, is largely abandoned, after the Khmer Rouge regime effectively shut it down. In 2006 the BBC reported that there was only one scheduled servic
axle load
total weight bearing on the roadway for all wheels connected to a given axle
variable gauge
system to allow railway vehicles to travel across a break of gauge
firefighting train
train used to fight fires
power car
Type of rail vehicle
tractive effort
the force a locomotive can pull without losing traction with the rails (wheel slip)