Sentence examples for pair of rails from inspiring English sources

It includes a plurality of spaced-apart cross-ties, two side ties, intermediate ties and a pair of rails road track rails.

To this end, a multi-body model of the rail vehicle is defined including track flexibility effects on three levels of detail: a perfectly rigid pair of rails, a sectional track model and a three-dimensional finite element track model.

The five-axis detector manipulation subsystem (module 1) and the four-axis press subsystem (module 2) are aligned on a same pair of rails.

Each pair of rails converged on a turntable at the forward end of the rails and a transverse spur connected the two turntables.

Stephenson built the line using four equally spaced rails; he envisaged that this would allow the line to operate as a double tracked railway line under normal circumstances, but that in the event of a locomotive needing to haul a particularly wide load or of one of the outside rails breaking, a locomotive could run along the central pair of rails.

A pair of rails was placed under two opposing holes to hold the hidden escape box.

On Friday, the Transportation Department flatly rejected the state's arguments for refusing to repay $271 million that was spent on a project, canceled last year, to build a pair of rail tunnels under the Hudson River.

On Friday, Gov. Chris Christie and Ray LaHood, the federal transportation secretary, announced that New Jersey would pay back $95 million that the federal government had provided for a pair of rail tunnels under the Hudson River that were projected to cost $8.7 billion.

In between, it serves mostly residential areas running parallel to a pair of rail lines; the highway carries between 5,000 and 43,000 vehicles per day on average.

It crosses two different rivers and a pair of rail lines as it approaches Detroit's inner suburbs, where it terminates at an interchange between I-96 and I-275.

The role of the third (or conductor) rail is to ensure that the electricity is always directly available, so it's installed alongside, or in between, the pair of running rails (Keep an eye out for it when you're next on an underground train).