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Encyclopedia > Gravity railroad

A gravity railroad is a railroad on a steep slope, usually serving a mine at the top. Cars full of minerals go down the slope via gravity. Either the cars are then hauled back up the slope using power, or the weight of the descending loaded truck pulls the connected empty truck back up to the top. Sometimes the tracks going down and up are separate, and are known as the heavy track and light track, respectively. This is the top-level page of WikiProject trains Rail tracks Rail transport refers to the land transport of passengers and goods along railways or railroads. ... In mathematics, the slope (or gradient, especially where three or more dimensions are discussed) of a straight line (within a Cartesian coordinate system) is a measure for the steepness of said line. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ... This article covers the physics of gravitation. ...


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