Railway General Knowledge.

[341o2]

Would no1 be a railway enthusiast, 5 Double crossover, and for 6 Turm is tower and Bahnhof railway station
I am getting the feeling that the answers are are not literal translations.
And on the subject of German, I believe the longest word translates as "The wife of the director of the steamship company"

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Would no1 be a railway enthusiast, 5 Double crossover, and for 6 Turm is tower and Bahnhof railway station
I am getting the feeling that the answers are are not literal translations.
And on the subject of German, I believe the longest word translates as "The wife of the director of the steamship company"

1 is right, buffer kisser: railway enthusiast. 2 is double-slip (diamond crossing with curves left and right). 2 points.

6 Turm-bahnhof is a type of interchange station, does not have to have a tower.

Railway German as used now, may be different from normal German, or from the translations in my 1988 dictionary.

 

[Neo9320]

6-turn table?

Edit: just posted too late

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

6-turn table?

Edit: just posted too late

No, turntable = Drehscheibe, rotating disc, perhaps a better description than turn-table. My table is oblong.

 

[341o2]

ah, a Turmbahnhof would have high and low platforms where two railways crossed each other on different levels, such as Lichfield or Tamworth in this country
2 Ueberwurfbauwerk. When you throw something it flies, therefore flyover

 

[Calthrop]

Seems that nobody has tried 3 or 4 yet. 4 -- a pure guess -- "Dach" means roof: so -- a tunnel of relatively narrow and restricted bore, of just sufficient height to take closed-in rail vehicles with roofs of the standard height. 3 -- I'll be totally frivolous and fatuous: "Tragen" = carry, "Schnabel" = most common meaning, beak or bill: "Trag-schnabel-wagen" thus, a van specifically designed for the carriage of birds: one takes it, live poultry ...

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

ah, a Turmbahnhof would have high and low platforms where two railways crossed each other on different levels, such as Lichfield or Tamworth in this country
2 Ueberwurfbauwerk. When you throw something it flies, therefore flyover

Both correct

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Seems that nobody has tried 3 or 4 yet. 4 -- a pure guess -- "Dach" means roof: so -- a tunnel of relatively narrow and restricted bore, of just sufficient height to take closed-in rail vehicles with roofs of the standard height. 3 -- I'll be totally frivolous and fatuous: "Tragen" = carry, "Schnabel" = most common meaning, beak or bill: "Trag-schnabel-wagen" thus, a van specifically designed for the carriage of birds: one takes it, live poultry ...

Two virtual points for entertaining but wrong answers.

Dach-profil-tunnels are used on the newest high-speed lines, something to do with disaster planning.

Were you thinking of homing-pigeon specials with thousands of beaks/Schnabel?
A Trag-schnabel-wagen set (two vehicles) has two Schnabel, it could alternatively be likened to a centipede.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Vielen Dank

More lovely long German railway words. I have inserted dashes to make them easier to guess, but each is normally a single word. What do they mean in English?

1 Puffer-kuesser
2 Ueberwurf-bauwerk
3 Trag-schnabel-wagen
4 Dach-profil-tunnel
5 Doppel-kreuz-weiche
6 Turm-bahnhof

3 + 4 have not been solved yet, clues above.

 

[341o2]

I was thinking that Tragshnabelwagen might be a match truck for a breakdown crane, but many axles suggest heavy load between two trucks

 

[Snow1964]

I think 3 Trag-schnabel-wagen is a carrying cradle with curved arms (that look like a beak from the side) between two multi wheel bogies. The sort of thing where a transformer or similar large heavy load would be put (or in Nazi time, a huge gun), but not sure if term includes the bogies.

4 Dach-profil-tunnel could be a roofed covered way, the sort of thing built to protect lines from mountain avalanches, just a guess.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

3 Trag-schnabel-wagen is a carrying cradle with curved arms (that look like a beak from the side) between two multi wheel bogies. The sort of thing where a transformer or similar large heavy load would be put (or in Nazi time, a huge gun), but not sure if term includes the bogies.

4 Dach-profil-tunnel could be a roofed covered way, the sort of thing built to protect lines from mountain avalanches, just a guess.

Yes, a Trag-schnabel-wagen (or pair) is used to transport transformers and other very heavy loads.

Dach-profil-tunnel: you are thinking of the avalanche shelter at Friog? No, but it does have something in common with the stretch between Llwyngwril and Fairbourne. A very flat Dach/roof.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Only number 4 is unsolved, Dach-profil-tunnel. It is to do with emergency planning on new high-speed lines. It would really look like a flat roof on a drawing unless one looked very closely.

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Dach-profil-tunnel is to do with gradientS (plural) in the tunnel.

 

[xotGD]

Dach-profil-tunnel is to do with gradientS (plural) in the tunnel.

Is there a summit in the middle of the tunnel so that if a train loses power it can coast out of the tunnel?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Is there a summit in the middle of the tunnel so that if a train loses power it can coast out of the tunnel?

Yes, it goes up a little to a summit in the middle, then downhill to the exit, so trains can roll out by gravity, tunnels are built thus on the new high-speed line north from Muenchen.

@341o2 got three right with a bit of help, so may set the next question/s.

 

[341o2]

Here are some American railroad terms, mostly from about 100 years ago. What do they mean?

1. Shoo-fly
2. Gandy Dancers
3. Wipe the clock
4. In the hole
5 Mudhen
6.Muzzle Loader.
7. Riptrack
8. Varnish
9. Cornfield Meet
10. Goat Feeder

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

4. In the hole: switched in to a passing loop?
9. Cornfield meet: head-on confrontation on a single line?

American is harder than German!

 

[Calthrop]

1. Shoo-fly -- something to do with diverging tracks, I'm sure: terminal siding -- rather than an actual loop -- which could be used at a pinch for crossing trains??

2. Gandy Dancers -- four-wheel p.w. trolleys, human-powered by guys pumping on a central lever arrangement linked by gears to the wheels.

5. Mudhen -- I gather that in the latter years of the Denver & Rio Grande's 3ft gauge lines, "Mudhen" was a term given there, to an elderly class of 2-8-2: thus, an old and not-well-regarded steam loco or type thereof?

6. Muzzle Loader -- latish in the steam era, loco which was hand-fired, rather than equipped with a mechanical stoker??

8. Varnish -- prestigious express passenger train.

10. Goat Feeder -- a "yard goat" was a shunting loco: fireman of same?

 

[341o2]

4. Nearly correct, in that the hole refers to a siding rather than a passing loop. typically at a Meet involving two freight trains, one would back into the siding
9. Spot on, a cornfield meet is a head on collision between two trains on a single line

 

[341o2]

1. Shoo-fly -- something to do with diverging tracks, I'm sure: terminal siding -- rather than an actual loop -- which could be used at a pinch for crossing trains??

2. Gandy Dancers -- four-wheel p.w. trolleys, human-powered by guys pumping on a central lever arrangement linked by gears to the wheels.

5. Mudhen -- I gather that in the latter years of the Denver & Rio Grande's 3ft gauge lines, "Mudhen" was a term given there, to an elderly class of 2-8-2: thus, an old and not-well-regarded steam loco or type thereof?

6. Muzzle Loader -- latish in the steam era, loco which was hand-fired, rather than equipped with a mechanical stoker??

8. Varnish -- prestigious express passenger train.

10. Goat Feeder -- a "yard goat" was a shunting loco: fireman of same?

1, 2 no,
5 no, a generic term for a certain type of locomotive
6 8 and 10, yes

 

[Calthrop]

Gandy Dancers (2) -- the chaps pumping, rather than the vehicle? -- or am I altogether barking up wrong tree?

 

[341o2]

4. In the hole: switched in to a passing loop?
9. Cornfield meet: head-on confrontation on a single line?

American is harder than German!

4. Nearly correct, in that the hole refers to a siding rather than a passing loop. typically at a Meet involving two freight trains, one would back into the siding
9. Spot on, a cornfield meet is a head on collision between two trains on a single line

 

[341o2]

Gandy Dancers (2) -- the chaps pumping, rather than the vehicle? -- or am I altogether barking up wrong tree?

you are right in that it refers to the actions of certain railroad workers on foot

 

[Calthrop]

you are right in that it refers to the actions of certain railroad workers on foot

Those who, in new construction, actually laid the rails down?

 

[341o2]

Those who, in new construction, actually laid the rails down?

You are so close, I'll give it to you. Gandy dancers refers to trackside labouring, the nickname could have originated in the motion of tamping the tracks (maintinence as well as new) likened to a gander, or the Old Gandy Manufacturing Co. which supplied the tools of the trade

 

[Calthrop]

You are so close, I'll give it to you. Gandy dancers refers to trackside labouring, the nickname could have originated in the motion of tamping the tracks (maintinence as well as new) likened to a gander, or the Old Gandy Manufacturing Co. which supplied the tools of the trade

Most sporting of you -- thanks. I'm sure that I've heard / read the term, applied to the pump-trolley scene; but it looks as though those users of it, were doing so inaccurately !

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

3. Wipe the clock: reach 100 mph? Or something to do with alcohol?

 

[341o2]

3. Wipe the clock: reach 100 mph? Or something to do with alcohol?

No totally the opposite, you would do this when faced with a cornfield meet

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

No totally the opposite, you would do this when you saw a cornfield meet impending as an engineer

Emergency braking, put the wheels into reverse?