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Switch cars onto house tracks at every station you pass on your run
Tracks running off the main line or lead, forming a letter Y; used for turning cars and engines where no urntable is available
Stop signal, waved violently by using both arms and swinging them in downward arc by day, or swinging lamp in wide low semicircle across tracks at night
depart ‘Ok, I’ll make tracks now’
row of needle marks on a person
To hit cars going into adjacent tracks. (See cornered) Also refers to the officially frowned-upon practice of slowing up for a stop signal at a crossing with another railroad instead of stopping. The engineer would look up and down to make sure everything is safe, then start up again, having saved several minutes by not stopping entirely. Wabash may also mean a heavy fire in the locomotive firebox
Artificial knoll at end of classification yard over which cars are pushed so that they can roll on their own momentum to separate tracks. (See drop.) Also the summit of a hill division or the top of a prominent grade. Boomers generally referred to the Continental Divide as the Hump
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Tracks is slang for needle marks or injecting scars on the limbs of a drug addict.
Cars on end of tracks with brakes applied
Main track of yard from which individual tracks lead off. Also called a lead. (See yard)
Verb. To begin a journey. E.g."OK, it's 8.30 and we've got to get to London by midday, let's make tracks."
For an engine to run on the tracks without any cars
Pecker tracks is American slang for semen stains.
Row of needle marks on a person
System of tracks for making up trains or storing cars. (Boomer's version: "System of rust surrounded y fence and inhabited by a dumb bunch of natives who will not let a train in or out.") Also called garden and ield. Yard geese are yard switchmen. Y.M. is yardmaster. Yard goat is switching engine
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A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a center makes two concentric tracks.
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To form or work, as by inlaying, with irregular lines or impressions resembling the tracks of worms, or appearing as if formed by the motion of worms.
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An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs, known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones.
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A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound.
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A road prepared for easy transit of trams or wagons, by forming the wheel tracks of smooth beams of wood, blocks of stone, or plates of iron.
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One of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails.
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Fossil tracks of annelids.
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To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
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A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.
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A portion of track consisting of two diverging tracks connected by a cross track.
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Aggregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc.
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One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
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To follow the tracks or traces of; to pursue by following the marks of the feet; to trace; to trail; as, to track a deer in the snow.
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Wormlike in shape; covered with wormlike elevations; marked with irregular fine lines of color, or with irregular wavy impressed lines like worm tracks; as, a vermiculate nut.
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See Trackschuyt.
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An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large "bird tracks," so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix.
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