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Definition of Derails
1. derail [v] - See also: derail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Derails
Literary usage of Derails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Railway Signaling by Everett Edgar King (1921)
"When a derail on one track of a crossing is reversed, it locks the derails of
the conflicting tracks at normal. When the derails are reversed the home ..."
2. Railway Maintenance Engineering: With Notes on Construction by William Hamilton Sellew (1915)
"derails.—derails are used at interlocking plants, as will be explained in Chap.
... The earlier forms of derails consisted of an ordinary switch point or ..."
3. Maintenance of Way and Structures by William Clyde Willard (1915)
"Derailing Switches and derails.—A derailing switch or derail is used on sidings
to prevent cars or trains from fouling the main track; and on main track at ..."
4. Notes on Track: Construction and Maintenance by Walter Mason Camp (1903)
"derails are usually located 300 to 500 ft. from the crossing, the distance in
some states being regulated by law. With the increasing speed of trains 500 ..."
5. Railway Signaling in Theory and Practice by James Brandt Latimer (1909)
"derails may be grouped under three general heads: (1) Split point derails. ...
(3) Solid derails. Fig. 59 shows i and 3, and Fig. 6o shows 2. ..."
6. Practical Helps for the Electric Railway Shop, Track, Power, Line and (1919)
"Apparatus for Operation of derails at Crossings. A situation somewhat analogous
to the traffic conditions at congested points is found at busy surface ..."
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