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Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / railroads/railways | | English term or phrase: cut-in helper | | This is a type of locomotive but that's all I know. |
|  Jean-Luc HerinKudoZ activityQuestions: 7 ( 1 open) ( 1 without valid answers) Answers: 0
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| | machine de renfort intercalée | Explanation:
helper: an extra locomotive attached to a train at the front, middle</B>, or rear, esp. to provide extra power for climbing a steep grade. Compare doubleheader, pusher (def. 5).
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/helper
dans l'extrait suivant, un voyageur observe le train devant lui (il est dans la rame): 8 wagons devant, on voit le "cut-in helper", et 26 wagons plus loin, la loco de tête.
"Cut-in" veut dire intercalée entre les wagons
"Braving cinders in the eye, we look forward from what's probably a Northern Pacific wooden coupla caboose as train 858 claws upgrade out of Culdesac on the 3% to Reubens. Ahead of us eight cars is the cut-in helper, Northern Pacific "W" class mike, 1575. Twenty-six ahead of that is UP MacArthur 2-8-2 2211. The date is September 18, 1953, and GP9s which will put an end to this steam show are a year away."
http://www.wwvrailway.com/vintage.htm
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Note added at 1 hr (2010-01-20 10:05:17 GMT)
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dans l'extrait proposé par Aliastrad, je lis d'ailleurs:
"B. After the manned helper is cut-in the train or coupled at the rear of the train</B>, the engineer of the leading locomotive must:"
ici on a la "leading locomotive"
a manned helper
qui peut être "cut-in" ou "at the rear of the train".
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FX Fraipont
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Local time: 05:40
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1 hr confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 machine de renfort intercalée
Explanation:
helper: an extra locomotive attached to a train at the front, middle</B>, or rear, esp. to provide extra power for climbing a steep grade. Compare doubleheader, pusher (def. 5).
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/helper
dans l'extrait suivant, un voyageur observe le train devant lui (il est dans la rame): 8 wagons devant, on voit le "cut-in helper", et 26 wagons plus loin, la loco de tête.
"Cut-in" veut dire intercalée entre les wagons
"Braving cinders in the eye, we look forward from what's probably a Northern Pacific wooden coupla caboose as train 858 claws upgrade out of Culdesac on the 3% to Reubens. Ahead of us eight cars is the cut-in helper, Northern Pacific "W" class mike, 1575. Twenty-six ahead of that is UP MacArthur 2-8-2 2211. The date is September 18, 1953, and GP9s which will put an end to this steam show are a year away."
http://www.wwvrailway.com/vintage.htm
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Note added at 1 hr (2010-01-20 10:05:17 GMT)
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dans l'extrait proposé par Aliastrad, je lis d'ailleurs:
"B. After the manned helper is cut-in the train or coupled at the rear of the train</B>, the engineer of the leading locomotive must:"
ici on a la "leading locomotive"
a manned helper
qui peut être "cut-in" ou "at the rear of the train".
| FX Fraipont
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1 day5 hrs confidence: rame dromadaire
Explanation:
Salut Jean-Luc !
Une autre idée, pour décrire une locomotive insérée en milieu de rame (il me semble que c'est ça, ce "cut-in helper" ?) :
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rame_réversible
une voiture-pilote à chaque bout et une locomotive intercalée dans la rame (rame dromadaire).
http://sncf.ratp.free.fr/locoelec.htm
Ici la 16630 à Tergnier avec des voitures deux niveaux (V2N) et la 16550 en livrée verte Picardie dans une rame "dromadaire" (la locomotive est située au milieu de la rame).
Il y a même des vidéos sur Dailymotion, vive les trainspotters !
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Asker: Salut Thierry, comment ça va? Merci de ta réponse mais le travail était déjà parti. Dommage, dromadaire c'était sympa.
Ciao JL
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