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HI-RAIL VEHICLE [2 records]

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Record 1 2019-02-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Railroad Safety
CONT

[The company], a freight railway operating over its own right of way with one person operations, has installed a proximity detection device(PDD) on its trains and maintenance-of-way and hi-rail machines … During normal operation, the PDD provides an audible and visual alarm to the [locomotive] operator when another equipped vehicle is within eight, five and three miles of track range … For a train, the alarm must be acknowledged by the engineer within a certain amount of time or penalty braking application will occur on the train.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité (Transport par rail)

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Railroad Maintenance
  • Rail Transport Operations
OBS

The abbreviations "hi," "hy" and "high" mean "highway."

OBS

hy-rail vehicle: term officially approved by CP Rail.

Key term(s)
  • highway-rail vehicle
  • hy-rail
  • high-rail

French

Domaine(s)
  • Entretien (Équipement ferroviaire)
  • Exploitation (Transport par rail)
DEF

Véhicule routier muni d'un dispositif escamotable lui permettant de circuler sur la voie ferrée.

OBS

véhicule rail-route : terme uniformisé par CP Rail.

Spanish

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