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RailsWest.com Museums Preserve Objects for Education
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Helping find the Past. Race for Second Route. Watch Use and Care. Orange Empire Ry Mus. Rail Museums to Visit. Museums Preserve Objects for Education. Basic Functions of a Museum:. Museums are generally considered as engaging in five primary functions for the public's instruction and enjoyment: acquisition, preservation, research, exhibition and interpretation. Interpretation is the instructional process best suited for museums. Museum Objects are tangible, material, three-dimensional items in the collec...
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RailsWest.com Railroad Workers Move Trains Safely and Efficiently
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Helping find the Past. Race for Second Route. Watch Use and Care. Orange Empire Ry Mus. Rail Museums to Visit. Railroad Workers Move Trains Safely and Efficiently. A visit to today's western railroad museums. The Conductor is the railroad employee charged with the management of a freight or passenger train, and is also the direct supervisor of the train's Train Crew. The conductor is required to cary an accurate watch. The Conductor is responsible for signaling. Review any train orders. With air brakes i...
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RailsWest.com Railroad Beginnings in California
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Helping find the Past. Race for Second Route. Watch Use and Care. Orange Empire Ry Mus. Rail Museums to Visit. Railroad Beginnings in California. Having proven successful in the East, the first railroads built in California also provided transportation from inland communities to the rivers and ocean harbors to meet the needs of the growing population of California. The Union Wharf and Plank Company. With the line extended to North Fork on the Mad River in 1882. Construction was completed to Patterson Sta...
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RailsWest.com Standard Time essential for Train Movement
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Helping find the Past. Race for Second Route. Watch Use and Care. Orange Empire Ry Mus. Rail Museums to Visit. Standard Time essential for Safe and Efficient Train Movement. During the early years most trains were operated on a single track, with sidings provided at intervals to allow trains going opposite directions or different speeds to pass each other. Railroads operated using a timetable. Solar Time varies with Distance. Sun time could differ between sides of a large city. In some cities, such a...
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RailsWest.com Railroad Operation
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Helping find the Past. Race for Second Route. Watch Use and Care. Orange Empire Ry Mus. Rail Museums to Visit. It takes one group of skills and tools to build a railroad and a different set of skills and tools to operate one. Train crews, station crews, telegraph operators, yard masters, maintenance crews, watch inspectors, crew dispatchers, train dispatchers and management all have worked together to make trains run safely and efficiently since trains began rolling in North America. Provided the railroa...
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RailsWest.com Second Transcontinental Line and Santa Fe Bring Competition
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Helping find the Past. Race for Second Route. Watch Use and Care. Orange Empire Ry Mus. Rail Museums to Visit. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Brings Competition. The Atchison and Topeka Railroad. Was chartered on February 11, 1859, to join Atchison, Kansas, on the Missouri River, and Topeka, Kansas, with Santa Fe, New Mexico, under the leadership of Cyrus K. Holliday, one of the founders of Topeka, along with Luther Challis of Atchison. The line westward to Emporia was completed in July 1870 giving the co...
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RailsWest.com Museums Preserve Objects for Education
http://www.railswest.com/heritage/museumintro.html
Helping find the Past. Race for Second Route. Watch Use and Care. Orange Empire Ry Mus. Rail Museums to Visit. Museums Preserve Objects for Education. Basic Functions of a Museum:. Museums are generally considered as engaging in five primary functions for the public's instruction and enjoyment: acquisition, preservation, research, exhibition and interpretation. Interpretation is the instructional process best suited for museums. Museum Objects are tangible, material, three-dimensional items in the collec...
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RailsWest.com Railroad Operation
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Helping find the Past. Race for Second Route. Watch Use and Care. Orange Empire Ry Mus. Rail Museums to Visit. It takes one group of skills and tools to build a railroad and a different set of skills and tools to operate one. Train crews, station crews, telegraph operators, yard masters, maintenance crews, watch inspectors, crew dispatchers, train dispatchers and management all have worked together to make trains run safely and efficiently since trains began rolling in North America. Provided the railroa...