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Rail transport is also known as train transport. This is a means of transferring passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are located on tracks. Rail vehicles (rolling stock) are directionally guided by the tracks on which they run. Tracks usually consist of steel rails, installed on ties (sleepers) set in ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually certainly fitted with metal wheels, moves. Other variations are also possible - like slab track (this is where the rails are fastened to a concrete foundation resting on a prepared subsurface).

What is an Electrical Ballast? An electrical ballast is a device placed in series with a load to limit the amount of current in an electrical circuit. A widely used example is the inductive ballast used in fluorescent lamps to limit the current through the tube, which would otherwise rise to a destructive level due to the negative differential resistance of the tube's certain voltage-current characteristic.

Ballasts come in different complexities. They may be as simple as a resistor, inductor, or capacitor (or a combination of these) wired in series with the lamp. They may also be as complex as the electronic ballasts used in compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and high-intensity discharge lamps (HID lamps).

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An example of early rail transport would be a 16th-century minecart.

Rolling stock in a rail transport system generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tired road vehicles, so passenger and freight cars (carriages and wagons) can be coupled into really longer trains.