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Hi TaOT! Thanks for reverting my addition to the Track article. I was surprised at the word's omission, but now realise it must be an Australian term. Follow this search [1] to see how common it is in this country. Plenty of examples (4,000) but I'll see if I can find a proper reference. Doug butler (talk) 02:54, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
While I have your undivided attention, would you mind casting an eye over the article Salt Clay Creek railway disaster, of which I am, so far, the only contributor. In particular, the sentence
Mention of air brake came from a contemporary newspaper cutting, and "reversed the engine" from a railways historical magazine. Would these not be mutually exclusive, or are the air-brakes only applied to the carriages and brake van and not the driving wheels? Also the article Reversing gear does not mention throwing the driving wheels into reverse for greater braking effort, only for normal shunting practice. Regards, Doug butler (talk) 21:56, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
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I've been thinking on names for the KD Subdivision and I'm open to suggestions. There's no real tradition on the English Wikipedia of using constructed or descriptive names for railway lines in the United States, though this is quite common elsewhere. This is probably because we tend to have official names for extant lines (Subdivision, District, Line, Branch, etc). Anyway, the KD Subdivision name goes back to the L&N. It was part of the Corbin Division then: [2]. This doesn't change under the Seaboard System: [3]. Historically, it's part of the L&N's Cincinnati–Atlanta line, which is finished around 1902 and was a mix of new and existing build. Kincaid Herr discusses the line in some depth. It doesn't have an official name that I've run across. If I were throwing out official names I suppose I'd write Cincinnati–Atlanta railway line (German: Bahnstrecke Cincinnati–Atlanta), with appropriate sections or anchors for the modern subdivisions. Mackensen (talk) 12:50, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
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I would like to know why you selected this section to tag as undue in June 2022, but left facility list and train car model numbers and their invetory quantity intact even though those per WP:NOTPRICE, equipment inventory listing is something to be avoided, whereas the section you tagged is backed with WP:RS. Graywalls (talk) 23:24, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
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What was the issue?
Are customers not allowed to be posted on Wiki? I might have to go over 1000 small railroads others put and remove them if theyre not allowed.
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Not long ago, I created some discussions on the talk pages of the Grand Trunk Western Class K-4a, the Grand Trunk Western Class K-4b, and the Atlantic Coast Line class P-5-A, citing that, in my opinion, they should be merged with their companion articles, namely No. 5629, No. 5632, and No. 1504, since the classes themselves aren’t noteworthy enough to have their own pages. Would you recommend just redirecting them, or is there anything else that has to be done with these proposed mergers? Someone who likes train writing (talk) 19:02, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
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