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Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / railways | | Spanish term or phrase: calces descarriladores | Por último nos detenemos en un importante elemento de seguridad: los calces descarriladores.
Se utilizan para evitar que material móvil invada la vía general por error, a la entrada de talleres donde se está trabajando o en zonas de obras. |
| | | wedge derails | Explanation:
calce is wedge here (and elsewhere).
Train derails come in different forms. The most common and therefore the most widely used forms are (1) the wedge-shaped piece of steel type, (2) the “spilt rail” type and (3) the portable derail type.
For more info see
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7735783.html
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Note added at 23 mins (2011-04-29 17:27:06 GMT)
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or perhaps better
wedge-type derails |
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21 mins confidence:  wedge derails
Explanation:
calce is wedge here (and elsewhere).
Train derails come in different forms. The most common and therefore the most widely used forms are (1) the wedge-shaped piece of steel type, (2) the “spilt rail” type and (3) the portable derail type.
For more info see
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7735783.html
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Note added at 23 mins (2011-04-29 17:27:06 GMT)
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or perhaps better
wedge-type derails
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