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    A slope car (スロープカー, surōpukā) is a small automated monorail, or a fusion between monorail, people mover, inclined elevator and rack railway. It is a...
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  • guideway transit. Slope cars are small automated monorails found in the various parts of Japan. Unlike the monorails above, slope cars are not legally considered...
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    Formerly an aeromovel, currently the people mover is diesel-powered. Slope car, a small automated monorail found in various parts of Japan, can be considered...
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    The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers...
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    Park Slope is a neighborhood in western Brooklyn, New York City, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. Park Slope is roughly bounded by Prospect...
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    A self-driving car, also known as an autonomous car (AC), driverless car, robotaxi, robotic car or robo-car, is a car that is capable of operating with...
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  • Book the Tenth: The Slippery Slope is the tenth novel in the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. It was illustrated...
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    Liftback (redirect from Liftback car)
    A liftback is a variation of a hatchback car body style, with a more gently sloping roofline, roughly between 45 and 10 degrees, whereas traditional or...
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    Sarakurayama Cable Car and Sarakurayama Slope Car allow visitors to travel to the top from Yahata. A short walk from the slope car station are several...
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    Angeles River, California Rail transport in Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Slope car / Monorackbahn Suspension railway The term "track" is used here for simplicity...
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    Fastback (category Car body styles)
    the car having a single slope from the roof to the tail. The kammback is not a fastback design with a roofline that tapers downward toward the car's rear...
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    railway that hauls rail cars up a steep gradient. An inclined elevator consists of one or two inclined tracks on a slope with a single car on each carrying payload...
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    for skimming concrete. Terrain-independence - crossing beachfronts and slopes up to 40 degrees All-season capability - frozen or flowing rivers no object...
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  • Switzerland, Germany and Italy, with an edge size of 6 centimeters (2.4 in) Slope car railways by Kaho Manufacturing [ja], used mainly in Japan and South Korea...
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  • service was replaced in 1990 by catamarans, which were also able to carry cars. At the peak of the year, in summer, there was a service every half an hour...
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    horses abreast, to horsecars or trollies, which used two horses to pull a car that was used in cities before electric trams were developed. A two-wheeled...
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    multiplying the car capacity, the train length, and the service frequency. Heavy rapid transit trains might have six to twelve cars, while lighter systems...
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  • safety rails for each car, to deter guests from climbing out. In 1985, these safety rails were modified to completely wrap around each car, making it even more...
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    trains are run in four-car configurations on the Expo Line, and two-car configurations on the Millennium Line. Each pair of cars is semi-permanently joined...
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    Funicular (redirect from Funicular car)
    a railway track laid on a steep slope. The system is characterized by two counterbalanced carriages (also called cars or trains) permanently attached...
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    light rail manufacturer Personal transporter Shweeb (Human-powered PRT) Slope car Microtransit Robotaxi Gilbert, Richard; Perl, Anthony (2007). "Grid-connected...
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  • Snail on the Slope (Russian - "Улитка на склоне") is a science fiction novel by Soviet authors Boris and Arkady Strugatsky. The first version of the novel...
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    where most of the monkeys gather. There is also an option to take a short slope car ride for 110 yen round-trip. "営業時間と料金". Takasakiyama Natural Zoological...
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    Kitakyūshū. It opened in 1957. The company also operates Sarakurayama Slope Car (皿倉山スロープカー, Sarakurayama Surōpukā). It links the funicular terminus and...
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    VAL 206 and VAL 208 cars Paris Orlyval, since 1991, VAL 206 cars Toulouse Metro (two lines), since 1993, VAL 206 and VAL 208 cars Taipei Metro Wenhu (Brown)...
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  • classified as either tetsudō or kidō, such as airport people movers, slope cars (automated small rack monorails), or amusement park rides. Those lines...
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    steepest gradients on adhesion railways Ruling gradient Slippery rail Slope car Jehan, David (2003). Rack Railways of Australia (2nd ed.). Illawarra Light...
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    changed its decision to build nine-car-long stations for new lines and opted for shorter stations which can accommodate six-car trains. On 19 October 2008, a...
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    system, Dofasco for the bogies, Alcan and Canadair for the design of the car bodies and a set of prototypes, and Canadair as the overall prime contractor...
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    line. Initial testing used a car previously used on Magnetbahn GmbH's test track near Brunswick, and the first two cars specifically built for Berlin...
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