Перевести текст! passenger trains are assembled in a car yard with a number of specified cars as bagage, mail and express coaches, dining, parlour and sleeping cars. every car in the train has received careful inspection inside and outside to make certain of its mechanical condition. each car has been washed: not only have inside woodwork and floors been scrubbed, but carpets and seats have been gone over with vacuum cleaners. preparations for dining service constitute a considerable operation. food cupplies have been requisitioned from the store rooms, and stored in the car refrigerators, cupboards and small but complete pantry. clean linen has been stocked. after preparing the cars and cleaning, and tasted to ascertain whether mechanical appliances such as air braces and signal and steam lines are functioning properly. the train is now ready to receive its passengers, baggage and mail. when ready, a swithing engine moves the trains to the assigned deperture track at thestation. the road locomotive has been inspected. the crew takes over takes over the locomotove at the terminal, moves it to the departure track and couples it to the train. here the train receives test of air braces and signal lines again. the train crew has been mobilized, they are called for duty according to schedule. a modern train stands in the tarminal ready to receive its passengers. it departs at the moment called for by its schedule. the program of departure seems so simple that few passengers realize that it has required the services of a small army of railroad emploees to make the movement possible.

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