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Rail & Transit

44 products, each exploded into a recursive bill of materials. Open one and keep clicking down to the bolts.

Autorack Wagon
Autorack Wagon A multi-deck flatbed rail wagon with stacked loading levels, ramps, side panels, bogies, and load tie-down fittings for transporting automobiles. 217 parts · 8 subsystems
Axle Counter System
Axle Counter System A railway safety system detecting passing axles via wheel sensors and transmitting train presence status to a central evaluation unit. 40 parts · 6 subsystems
Ballast Tamper
Ballast Tamper A self-propelled on-track machine that packs ballast and corrects track geometry. 141 parts · 9 subsystems
Catenary Maintenance Vehicle
Catenary Maintenance Vehicle A self-propelled rail vehicle with an insulated aerial work platform used to inspect, repair, and tension overhead contact-line (catenary) equipment on electrified railways. 314 parts · 9 subsystems
Container Flatcar (Well Car)
Container Flatcar (Well Car) An unpowered intermodal freight wagon with a low central well that carries ISO shipping containers, riding on two bogies and connected into a train by couplers, draft gear, and a continuous air brake. 171 parts · 7 subsystems
Diesel-Electric Locomotive
Diesel-Electric Locomotive A freight road locomotive: a V16 diesel prime mover turns a main alternator that feeds rectified DC to traction inverters and axle-hung traction motors on two bogies. 181,216 parts · 13 subsystems
Double-Deck Coach
Double-Deck Coach A bilevel hauled passenger coach with seating on two decks. 1,193 parts · 13 subsystems
Electric Locomotive
Electric Locomotive A mainline AC electric locomotive: 25 kV roof pickup feeding a transformer, IGBT traction converters, and four traction motors across two bogies. 2,774 parts · 14 subsystems
Fare Gate
Fare Gate An automated passenger access control gate reading tickets and cards and opening a passage barrier upon valid entry. 73 parts · 7 subsystems
Flash-Butt Rail Welding Machine
Flash-Butt Rail Welding Machine A heavy-duty welding machine that flash-welds two abutting rail ends together using electrical heating and mechanical pressure. 80 parts · 7 subsystems
Freight Wagon
Freight Wagon A covered hopper railcar: welded underframe and hopper body on two three-piece bogies, AAR knuckle couplers, and an AAR air brake system for bulk dry-goods transport. 183 parts · 7 subsystems
Friction Buffer Stop
Friction Buffer Stop A fixed track-end safety device absorbing train kinetic energy through friction shoe deformation before a fixed backstop. 35 parts · 7 subsystems
Funicular Car
Funicular Car A passenger car for steep inclined railways, hauled by a steel rope from a stationary winding house, with a stepped body that keeps floors level and spring-applied track brakes that grip the rail if the rope fails. 355 parts · 7 subsystems
Gondola Wagon
Gondola Wagon An open-top freight wagon with high steel sides and ends for carrying bulk and heavy loads such as coal, scrap, aggregate, and steel, riding on two bogies with a continuous air brake. 169 parts · 7 subsystems
High-Speed Trainset
High-Speed Trainset An electric multiple-unit (EMU) high-speed trainset with distributed traction. 1,445,128 parts · 13 subsystems
Hot Box Detector
Hot Box Detector A lineside infrared monitoring system with wheel sensors, processing cabinet, and telemetry detecting bearing failures before catastrophic seizure. 39 parts · 7 subsystems
Level Crossing Barrier
Level Crossing Barrier A motorised boom gate that closes a road across a railway when a train approaches, sequenced with flashing lights and a bell by a fail-safe control cabinet. 108 parts · 7 subsystems
Light Rail Vehicle
Light Rail Vehicle A bidirectional articulated light rail vehicle (LRV) with low-floor center section. 1,002 parts · 15 subsystems
Maglev Trainset
Maglev Trainset A high-speed train that rides a guideway without wheel contact, lifted and steered by electromagnets and propelled by a long-stator linear synchronous motor built into the track. 1,133 parts · 9 subsystems
Metro Car
Metro Car A single EMU subway/metro car: aluminium carbody on two bogies, third-rail/pantograph traction, sliding plug doors, and TCMS train control. 1,156 parts · 12 subsystems
Monorail Car
Monorail Car A straddle-beam rubber-tired monorail car: it sits astride a concrete guideway beam on two bogies whose load tires roll on top of the beam while guide and stabilizing tires grip its sides. AC traction motors, third-rail collection, and TCMS train control. 700 parts · 11 subsystems
Passenger Coach
Passenger Coach A non-powered (hauled) main-line passenger coach: steel carbody shell on two trailer bogies, plug doors, full interior with toilet module, roof HVAC, and onboard low-voltage electrical, water, and brake systems. 769 parts · 12 subsystems
Platform Screen Doors
Platform Screen Doors Automatic sliding glass safety barriers sealing the metro platform edge during train boarding and departure. 114 parts · 7 subsystems
Rail Drilling Machine
Rail Drilling Machine A portable rail-clamping drilling unit with spindle, feed mechanism, coolant system, and automatic depth stop for precise fishplate bolt holes. 44 parts · 8 subsystems
Rail Grinding Machine
Rail Grinding Machine A self-propelled on-track maintenance vehicle that restores rail head profile by grinding away surface defects with rotating abrasive stones while travelling at working speed. 570 parts · 11 subsystems
Rail Saw
Rail Saw A portable abrasive-disc cutting saw driven by a gasoline engine, equipped with a rail clamp and guide frame for straight field cuts. 52 parts · 8 subsystems
Railcar Mover
Railcar Mover A road-rail mobile railcar mover that shunts wagons on rail and drives on roads. 181 parts · 10 subsystems
Railroad Derailer
Railroad Derailer A fixed or portable safety device forcing derailing blades into the wheel path to safely stop unauthorized or runaway trains. 23 parts · 6 subsystems
Railway Color-Light Signal
Railway Color-Light Signal A trackside aspect signal that shows trains red, yellow, or green light indications from LED heads on a mast, driven and proved by interlocking-controlled electronics. 134 parts · 7 subsystems
Railway Lifting Jack Set
Railway Lifting Jack Set A set of synchronized screw-driven jacks with manual or motor control and leveling governors, lifting entire locomotive or car for wheel removal and maintenance. 74 parts · 6 subsystems
Railway Point Machine
Railway Point Machine An electrically actuated switch machine that moves railway points to change the direction of trains between track branches. 51 parts · 7 subsystems
Railway Tank Wagon
Railway Tank Wagon A freight wagon built around a welded pressure-tight steel barrel for carrying liquids, gases, or powders, with bottom and top valve gear, two bogies, and a UIC air brake. 114 parts · 7 subsystems
Railway Turntable
Railway Turntable A rotating bridge platform supporting a railway locomotive or coach on a circular rail, driven by electric motors for directional positioning. 130 parts · 7 subsystems
Refrigerated Railcar
Refrigerated Railcar A thermally insulated rail freight car with a refrigeration unit, genset, fuel tank, and air circulation for perishable cargo. 149 parts · 8 subsystems
Shunting Locomotive
Shunting Locomotive A diesel-electric shunting (switcher) locomotive for yard and depot work. 380 parts · 14 subsystems
Snow Clearing Train (Rotary Plow)
Snow Clearing Train (Rotary Plow) A self-propelled rotary snow plough that cuts into deep drifted snow with a powered auger and impeller, then throws the snow clear of the track through a discharge chute. 243 parts · 9 subsystems
Switch Point Heater
Switch Point Heater A rail-mounted heating system with electric or gas elements, control cabinet, and snow-load sensors preventing ice accumulation on switch points. 53 parts · 7 subsystems
Track Geometry Car
Track Geometry Car A measurement-equipped railway vehicle carrying laser, camera and sensor systems to monitor track alignment, profile and ride quality. 122 parts · 7 subsystems
Track Laying Machine
Track Laying Machine A self-propelled rail-mounted factory that lays new track ahead of itself, feeding sleepers from material wagons by gantry crane, placing them at gauge spacing, and threading the rails onto them in one continuous pass. 371 parts · 8 subsystems
Train Wash Plant
Train Wash Plant A stationary drive-through facility with brush gantries, detergent and water systems, recycling circuit, and automated controls for locomotive and car cleaning. 60 parts · 8 subsystems
Tram
Tram A low-floor articulated light-rail tram. 705 parts · 14 subsystems
Ultrasonic Rail Test Trolley
Ultrasonic Rail Test Trolley A mobile inspection system with ultrasonic probe wheels, couplant delivery, instrumentation cabinet, and recording unit detecting internal rail defects. 50 parts · 8 subsystems
Underfloor Wheel Lathe
Underfloor Wheel Lathe A pit-mounted turning machine with cutting spindle, friction rollers, measuring system, and lifting carriage restoring wheel roundness in situ. 62 parts · 8 subsystems
Wayside Rail Lubricator
Wayside Rail Lubricator A trackside dispenser applying lubricating grease to the rail head when passing train wheels trigger the applicator. 56 parts · 6 subsystems