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train

1. 

a. a line of coaches or wagons coupled together and drawn by a railway locomotive

b. (as modifier): a train ferry

2. a series of interacting parts through which motion is transmitted

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train [trān]

(astronomy)

The bright tail of a comet or meteor.

(engineering)

To aim or direct a radar antenna in azimuth.

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Train 

railroad cars arranged in an order and linked together with one or more locomotives or motorized railcars equipped with lights and other identification signals.

In the USSR the order, movement, arrival and departure, and maintenance of trains are carried on according to the current rules for the technical operation of railroads. On the railroads of the Ministry of Railroads of the USSR the trains are classified by what is called train superiority. The first category is special trains, including emergency, fire-fighting, and snow-removal trains. Second are regular trains, such as passenger trains with long-distance, local, and surburban service. Third-class trains include mail-baggage, freight-passenger, freight, and maintenance trains. There are also locomotives with no cars, individual motorized railcars and motorized railcar sections, rail diesel cars, and motorized trolleys of the nonremovable type that are dispatched on spans between stations.

Trains are operated by locomotive crews of no less than two persons. Passenger trains have, in addition, conductors for the cars and, in some cases, other workers. The movement of a train within each section (averaging in length about 130–140 km) is directed by only one official— the train dispatcher on duty, who is responsible for keeping the trains on schedule and for assuring traffic safety.

Trains are marshaled for the most part at major stations intended for the purpose in compliance with a traffic chart and a marshaling plan for the train. In every category a limit has been established for the weight and length of the train in accord with the tractive power of the locomotive used and the length of the arrival-departure tracks. The weight of a passenger train in the USSR may reach 1,000–1,200 metric tons. Freight trains range from 6,000 to 10,000 metric tons.

The maximum permissible speed in the USSR for passenger trains is 160 km/hour (in some sections 200 km/hr or more); for express freight trains, 100-120 km/hr; and for ordinary freight trains, 80-100 km/hr.

A number is assigned to each train. Trains going in one direction have an even number, and those going in the opposite direction have an odd number.

K. M. DOBROSEL’SKII