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Landquart-Davos G 3/4, the Glossary

The Landquart-Davos G 3/4, also known as the Rhaetian Railway G 3/4, was a class of lightweight metre gauge steam locomotives operated from 1889 by the Landquart-Davos Narrow Gauge Railway (LD), 1895 renamed to Rhaetian Railway (RhB) in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. The G 3/4 class was so named under the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification system.^[1]

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Appenzell Railways

Appenzell Railways (Appenzeller Bahnen, AB) is a Swiss railway company with headquarters in Herisau.

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Bernese Oberland Railway

The Bernese Oberland Railway (Berner Oberland-Bahn, BOB) is a narrow-gauge mountain railway in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland.

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Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway

The Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway (Chemin de fer-musée Blonay-Chamby, BC) is a short steep but adhesion worked metre gauge heritage railway operated as part of the Blonay–Chamby Railway Museum using vintage steam and electric locomotives and rolling stock.

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Brünig railway line

The Brünig railway line (Brünigbahn) is a Swiss narrow gauge railway line that links Lucerne, in central Switzerland, with Interlaken, in the Bernese Oberland.

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Cantons of Switzerland

The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the member states of the Swiss Confederation.

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Chur

Chur ((locally) or; Coira; Cuera; Cuoira; Cuira; Coira; Cuera or Cuira; Coire)CVRIA, CVRIA RHAETORVM and CVRIA RAETORVM.

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Conservation and restoration of rail vehicles

Conservation and restoration of rail vehicles aims to preserve historic rail vehicles.

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Counter-pressure brake

The counter-pressure brake (German: Gegendruckbremse), also named the Riggenbach counter-pressure brake after its inventor, Niklaus Riggenbach, is a dynamic railway brake on steam locomotives that brakes the locomotive using the driving cylinders.

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Davos

Davos (or; help; Old Tavate) is an Alpine resort town and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.

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Deutsche Reichsbahn

The Deutsche Reichsbahn, also known as the German National Railway, the German State Railway, German Reich Railway, and the German Imperial Railway, was the German national railway system created after the end of World War I from the regional railways of the individual states of the German Empire.

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Domodossola–Locarno railway line

The Domodossola–Locarno railway line, informally called the Centovallina in Switzerland and the Vigezzina in Italy, is a metre-gauge railway negotiating the dramatic mountainous terrain between Domodossola, Italy, and Locarno, Switzerland.

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Engadin

The Engadin or Engadine (help;This is the name in the two Romansh idioms that are spoken in the Engadin, Vallader and Puter, as well as in Sursilvan and Rumantsch Grischun. In Surmiran, the name is Nagiadegna, and in Sutsilvan, it is Gidegna. help; Engadina; Engadine) is a long high Alpine valley region in the eastern Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden in southeasternmost Switzerland with about 25,000 inhabitants.

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Ferrovie della Sardegna

The Ferrovie della Sardegna (Railways of Sardinia), known also as ARST Gestione FdS between 2008 and 2010 and with the abbreviation FdS, was an Italian public company that managed the regional railway network in the island of Sardinia, Italy.

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Flüela Pass

The Flüela Pass (Flüelapass, Pass dal Flüela, elevation) is a high mountain pass of the Swiss Alps in Graubünden.

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Fuel oil

Fuel oil is any of various fractions obtained from the distillation of petroleum (crude oil).

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Grisons

The Grisons or Graubünden,Names include.

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Heidi

Heidi is a work of children's fiction published between 1880 and 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning (Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned (Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat).

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Igis

Igis (Romansh: Eigias) is a former municipality in the district of Landquart in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

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Klosters

Klosters is a Swiss village in the Prättigau, politically part of the municipality of Klosters-Serneus, which belongs to the political district Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Grisons.

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Landquart railway station

Landquart railway station (Bahnhof Landquart) is a major railway station in the municipality of Landquart, in the Swiss canton of Grisons.

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Landquart-Davos G 2x2/2

The Landquart-Davos G 2x2/2, also known as the Rhaetian Railway G 2x2/2, and, from 1910 to 1911, as the Rhaetian Railway G 2/3+2/2, was a two-member class of metre gauge Mallet-type steam locomotives manufactured by J. A. Maffei in Munich, Germany. Landquart-Davos G 3/4 and Landquart-Davos G 2x2/2 are metre gauge steam locomotives, Rhaetian Railway locomotives and steam locomotives of Brazil.

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Luxembourg

Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxemburg; Luxembourg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in Western Europe.

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Mallet

A mallet is a tool used for imparting force on another object, often made of rubber or sometimes wood, that is smaller than a maul or beetle, and usually has a relatively large head.

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Metre-gauge railway

Metre-gauge railways (US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre.

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Prättigau

The Prättigau is a geographical region in the cantons of Grisons, Switzerland.

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Raetia

Raetia or Rhaetia was a province of the Roman Empire named after the Rhaetian people.

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Rhaetian Railway

The Rhaetian Railway (Rhätische Bahn; Ferrovia retica; Viafier retica), abbreviated RhB, is a Swiss transport company that owns the largest network of all private railway operators in Switzerland.

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Rhaetian Railway G 4/5

The Rhaetian Railway G 4/5 was a class of metre gauge 2-8-0 steam locomotives operated by the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), which is the main railway network in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Landquart-Davos G 3/4 and Rhaetian Railway G 4/5 are metre gauge steam locomotives, preserved steam locomotives of Switzerland, Rhaetian Railway locomotives, SLM locomotives, steam locomotives of Brazil and steam locomotives of Spain.

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Sagunto

Sagunto (Sagunt) is a municipality of Spain, located in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community.

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Samedan

Samedan is a town and municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of Grisons.

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Sardinia

Sardinia (Sardegna; Sardigna) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy.

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Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois

The Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (Luxembourg National Railway Company, abbreviated CFL) is the national railway company of Luxembourg.

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Spark (fire)

A spark is an incandescent particle.

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Steam

Steam is a substance containing water in the gas phase, often mixed with air and/or an aerosol of liquid water droplets.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.

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Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works

Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (German Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik; French Société Suisse pour la Construction de Locomotives et de Machines; or for both, SLM) was a railway equipment manufacturer based in Winterthur in Switzerland. Landquart-Davos G 3/4 and Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works are SLM locomotives.

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Swiss locomotive and railcar classification

For more than a century, the Swiss locomotive, multiple unit, motor coach and railcar classification system, in either its original or updated forms, has been used to name and classify the rolling stock operated on the railways of Switzerland.

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Swiss Museum of Transport

The Swiss Museum of Transport or Verkehrshaus der Schweiz (literally "Transportation House of Switzerland") in Lucerne opened in July 1959 and exhibits all forms of transport including trains, automobiles, ships and aircraft as well as communication technology.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landquart-Davos_G_3/4

Also known as Rhaetian Railway G 3/4.

Landquart-Davos G 3/4, the Glossary

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See also

1′C n2t locomotives

2-6-0T locomotives

Preserved steam locomotives of Switzerland

Railway locomotives introduced in 1889

Rhaetian Railway locomotives

Steam locomotives of Brazil

Steam locomotives of Luxembourg

Steam locomotives of Spain

References