rail bridges
Spans for locomotives
Rail bridges are bridges designed to carry railway tracks, allowing trains to cross rivers, valleys, roads, or other obstacles.
The term distinguishes them from road bridges or pedestrian bridges.
Rail bridges must support heavier loads and withstand different stresses than highway bridges: The old rail bridge still carries freight trains across the gorge.
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- ironElement twenty-six
- tieEqual score, or neckwear
- boltThreaded rod for nuts
- viaductArched span crossing valleys
deck · ballast · weight limit · iron horse · girder · sleepers · masonry · scenic railway · concrete · railway line · overpass · railway · train crossing · level crossing · stone · locomotive · steam engine · timber
- railroadstrains, train, tracks, track, locomotive
- European Railtrains, tracks, platforms, train stations, locomotives
- South Asian Railwaysrailway stations, railway station, train station, passenger trains, passenger train
- railwaystrains, train, locomotives, locomotive, tracks
- rail transitsubway, metro, tram, train, trains
- transportation infrastructurehighways, highway system, highway design, road design, road network
structural relationship to terrain
rail bridgesrail tunnels
Underground corridors for trains
railway tunnels · underpasses · underground railways · subways