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Barlow rail, a Common card
Barlow rail was a rolled rail section used on early railways.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 50
- DEF
- 37
- Power
- 87
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,400
Power 87 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Barlow rail quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Barlow rail card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It has wide flaring feet and was designed to be laid direct on the ______, without requiring sleepers.
Answer
ballast. It has wide flaring feet and was designed to be laid direct on the ballast, without requiring sleepers. From the Barlow rail article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kangaroo Hoppet. Kangaroo Hoppet 60 · Matthew Otten 56 · Kirkersville, Ohio 53 · Barlow rail 50 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It has wide flaring feet and was designed to be laid direct on the ballast, without requiring sleepers.
- It was widely adopted on lightly trafficked railways, but was ultimately unsuccessful because of maintenance difficulties.
- It resembles the bridge rail used for Brunel's baulk road, but was of tapering form, rather than with the flat base of the heavier bridge rail intended for laying onto timber.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Barlow rail article was read about 1,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 50 and blocks with 37: each hit it takes is cut by 15 %.
How to get Barlow rail
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More Society cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Barlow rail in the power ranking, all domains together.
- SibatéCommon · Society · ATK 52 DEF 35
- Yair RosenblumCommon · Arts · ATK 51 DEF 36
- Matthew OttenCommon · Society · ATK 56 DEF 31
- Chuk Yuen EstateCommon · Science · ATK 49 DEF 38
- Domenico CirilloCommon · History · ATK 56 DEF 31
- GRB 160625BCommon · Science · ATK 48 DEF 39
Card lists
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- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Barlow rail (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Commissioner Geoff, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
