Portal:Trains/Did you know/April 2009

April 2009

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Crystal Palace pneumatic railway
 
Rc4 in old SJ colors, owned by Green Cargo
 
Sir Thomas Bent
  • ...that Sir Thomas Bent KCMG, regarded as one of the most colourful as well as one of the most corrupt politicians in the history of Victoria, Australia, used his position as Commissioner for Works and Railways during 1881-83 to extend railway lines through his own property developments, thus enormously increasing their value?
 
Electric loco SS8-0191 at Hunghom Station
 
George Hudson
  • ...that in an eventful life, English railway financier George Hudson, who fled his home village in disgrace at age 15, went on to build a successful career and eventually became a Member of Parliament and a railway director known as the "Railway King" in control over 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of railway, before being ruined after charges of fraud and bribery were made against him?
 
Preserved SNCF locomotive 241P-17
 
IC2000 Zurich - Lucerne with the control car leading the train
 
A CRH1 high speed train before departure from Shenzhen station in 2006
 
Eschede train disaster
 
Electric locomotive CC 7107 owned by SNCF in 2006 at Deutsche Bahn's workshop in Munich-Freimann, Germany.
 
Santa Fe steam and diesel power at the Great Plains Transportation Museum
 
Newspaper illustration of the Staplehurst rail crash
 
Ōu Main Line section with both narrow and standard gauge tracks
 
Passenger train showing the red/black livery introduced in 1972
 
A track in Denmark in 2003 that uses concrete sleepers
 
A Canadian National locomotive in 2000 featuring a Canadian comfort cab
 
A grain train led by a CLP class locomotive in 2007
 
Willamette locomotive, No 7; on static display at the Fort Missoula Museum in 2008.
 
PZB inductor ("trackside magnet")
 
001 Class locomotive no. 011
 
3295 waits in the sidings at Kiama with its Sydney bound train in 1962
 
Preserved N&W 611 in 1993
 
Baker valve gear
 
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5616 stands at Junee ready to depart with a train of wheat hopper wagons.
 
Budd RDC-1 Cape May Seashore Lines #407
The Hamburg section of Miniatur Wunderland
The Hamburg section of Miniatur Wunderland