Archive for March, 2008

30
Mar

do you have to manually fold the top of the convertible???
just wonderin' kekeke~
Answer: The pontiac Solstice is a Maunal top only. there is no Automatic version to the Convertable and the people who are saying so are probably thinking of the Pontiac G-6, which has a fully automatic hard top convertable option.
Answer: All solstices have […]

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30
Mar

I did not know that IM had a diffierant pay structure to the rest of us!!!
The nomal bands are 1-8 (1 being the top level - director and 8 being the bottom - there are not so many band 8 & I have not met one) I was a band 6 and earnt around £1200 […]

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30
Mar

eastcost (around 10 am)
godavari (around 8 pm)
janmabhoomi (around 7 am)
Answer: Train No Train Name
0510 NZB VSKP SPECIAL
1019 KONARK EXPRESS
1405 KAKINADA EXPRESS
2513 SC GHY EXP
2704 FALAKNUMA EXP
2728 GODAVARI EXP
2806 JANMABHOOMI EXP
7016 VISAKHA EXP
8510 NZB VSKP EXPRESS
8646 EAST […]

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30
Mar

This must come up a lot.
Answer: There's quite a bit of it, actually.
Railroads began diversifying decades ago, including the Southern Pacific who owned half of Greyhound Bus Lines, developed PMT (Pacific Motor Trucking), SP Pipelines, coal slurry pipelines,forrest lands and communications. You've heard of Sprint? SP launched the sattelite. Killed the railroad, […]

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30
Mar

I dont understand why school buses and transportation vehicles have to stop at train tracks when there is no flashing lights or the gate isnt lowered. How many times has a train ever passed through a railroad crossing without indicating that it is going to do so? I just dont really understand why […]

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30
Mar

Because local authorities decided to build one. There was a need for mass transportation within the city, so the government appropriated the money, and the transportation committee hired a bunch of people with construction machinery, laid track, built stations, and started running trains. It is to fulfill a transportation need.

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30
Mar

I am taking a train from NY penn station, driving in from DE. My options are to either park my car in Queens, NY or take NJ transit from metropark station. I am a little hesitant to take the NJ transit, because I am not sure of its on time rate, because the gap between […]

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30
Mar

how do black boxes work??
Answer: Rango is right, as usual.
Like most everything, event recorders evolved into their present state, which us quite sophisticated, showing a number of parameters.
After the speed recorder tape phase, the second generation devices recorded eight parameters; speed, brake pipe pressure, independent (engine brake) application, amperes to traction motors, direction of travel, […]

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30
Mar

does anyone know how the token signal boxes work? and about the special TPWS braking system?
Answer: TPWS involves an arming loop and a trigger loop. When the train passes over the arming loop, a timer is started. If the trigger loop is passed within the time limit, then the train is going too fast and […]

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30
Mar

i need to know the in depth physics and detail of how level crossings work, like how the light knows to turn red when the train is coming??
thanks 4 any help
Answer: There are sensors built in to the rail, when an approaching train activates these sensors they calculate the speed of the approaching equipment and […]

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