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There are... <br />Main tracks <br />Westbound, Ebound,S,bound and N,bound... which at the location you see them may physically be going in the opposite direction. <br />There can be Second and Third main tracks. <br />There are Yard tracks. Yards are designated by purpose... Freight, loco, intermodal... <br />A "House Track" would have a freight house either at the end or astride it. <br />There are various loops... a loop is not the same as a balloon track... it runs (mostly) parralel to a track to which it is joined at both ends... usually by a facing and then a trailing connection in the direction of travel. <br />(A facing connection is a switch that "faces" a train with a choice of which way to go... the route ahead diverges in the direction of travel. A trailing connection converges in <br />the directionof travel... if it is not rigidly linked to the means of moving the blades it can be "trailed" through from either approaching side... the wheels will pu***he blades out of the way... provided the cars are heavy enough and the blades free moving) <br />A Wye track is a combination of tracks forming a triangle which allow a loco or train to be turned round... instead of using a turntable for the loco. <br />A baloon track is just that... baloon shaped... it too allows locos or trains to be turned around... often used for on-the-move loading or unloding of unit coal trains. <br />A spur is a track of varying length from a car to several miles... it may have one or several loading/unloading points along it. <br />A blind spur is a dead end track. <br />A yard lead is the bit between the main and the yard roads including the switches. <br />A yard lead can also be/provide a blind spur (parralel) to the main tracks to allow switching of the yard tracks without going onto the main tracks. <br /> <br />That should get you started :-) <br /> <br />Main tracks usually get names from the Rule book/timetable. <br />Other tracks, especially within a yard, gat names from the job they do... a sand track or diesel rack in a loco yard... or the facility/factory they serve... or (just to confuse everybody) from the factory they used to serve or some other feature that was once there... maybe several generations ago.
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