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Weekly special trains from Secunderabad to Visakhapatnam, Bhubaneswar
• Dec. 10, 2024, 8:06 AM ET (The Hindu)
Investors Worry About Railroad Exposure to Tariffs
• Nov. 27, 2024, 6:31 AM ET (Wall Street Journal)
railroad, mode of land transportation in which flange-wheeled vehicles move over two parallel steel rails, or tracks, either by self-propulsion or by the propulsion of a locomotive. After the first crude beginnings, railroad-car design took divergent courses in North America and Europe, because of differing economic conditions and technological developments. Early cars on both continents were largely of two-axle design, but passenger-car builders soon began constructing cars with three and then four axles, the latter arranged in two four-wheel swivel trucks, or bogies. The trucks resulted in smoother riding qualities and also spread the weight of heavy vehicles over more ...(100 of 20134 words)