A transportation arrangement in which truck trailers with their loads are moved by train to a destination. Also known as Rail Pigs.

Persons and property carried by transport lines.

Is a process taking place under constant temperature. To compress the gas from state 1 to state 2, heat must be removed to keep the temperature constant. The pressure change is reciprocal to the change in specific volume.

Resistance to flow. Defined as the difference in pressure upstream and downstream.

A pneumatic device with a rotary output. Typically of a vane or rack-and-pinion construction.

Shipper's communication(s) to its agent and/or directly to the international water-carrier. Instructions may be varied, e.g., specific details/clauses to be printed on the B/L, directions for cargo pickup and delivery.

SOnar Navigation and Ranging - A device which emits pulses of high frequency sound which are reflected by any solid object they encounter. The time from the emission of the pulse and the arrival of its returning echo is measured, giving a range to the obj ...

Small horizontal spars extending athwartships from one or more places along the mast. The shrouds cross the end of these "spreaders", enabling the shrouds to better support the mast.

The compartment at the bow of the vessel

Joining the ends of two lines without increasing the thickness over the length of the splice, so that the splice will pass freely through a block.

Very small wooden pail having one stave prolonged to form a handle. Used as a bailer in a boat.

A rail fastened along the inside of the bulwarks of a vessel and pierced to hold belaying pins

An abbreviation for "Cubic." A unit of volume measurement.

Is any gas or gas mixture that contains no water vapor and/or in which all of the constituents are substantially above their respective saturated vapor pressures at the existing temperature.

A name usually given to a State body having control or regulation of public utilities.

Division of the circumference of the magnetic compass card into thirty-two points, each of 11

The pressure containing stationary element that encloses the rotor and associated internal components of a compressor, including integral inlet and discharge connections.

The horsepower calculated from compressor-indicator diagrams. Applied only to displacement type compressors.

On a square-rigged ship, a light weather sail set next above the topgallant-sail in fair weather.

A ship builder, or one who works about a ship. Does wood carpentry on the ship and keeps ships faired. Builds launching ways and launches ship.