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« on: February 23, 2018, 22:37:26 »
The turbocharger as a means of getting more "oomph" out of an internal combustion engine has led to common use of the term "Turbo".

I'm wondering what an equivalent term would be in the age of electric trains ... in DC▸ (Direct Current) technology, field divert seems to be the closest analogy, but would probably baffle most passengers. As for AC▸ (Alternating Current, or can mean Air Conditioning, depending on context. The second meaning is often used in a railway context and more generally), Gate Turn-off is a bit old-hat (although it sounds like a way of diverting into a field  Roll Eyes... and if today's tech is the IGBT▸ (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor), maybe we should stick that on the side of trains.
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