Portal:Trains/Did you know/December 2005

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December 2005

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0-4-4 built by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works
  • ...that the 0-4-4 type of steam locomotive is often called a Forney, characterized by the truck under the coal bunker/water tank?
 
The track side of the depot at Mid-Continent Railway Museum
 
A CP Rail train passes under itself in the lower tunnel
 
A pocket watch
  • ...that because of the likelihood of train wrecks and other accidents if all railroad workers did not accurately know the current time, pocket watches became required equipment for all railroad workers?
 
Vesterport Station, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2001
 
Kewdale Freight Terminal
 
A booster engine with its cover removed
 
William Barstow Strong
 
The APT-E at Shildon Locomotion Museum
 
Several signals as seen from the cab of a British steam locomotive
 
A "Crystal Mover" on Singapore's LRT
 
A 1950s vintage Hunslet diesel engine
 
BR 375609, an Electrostar, operated by Connex in London
 
Ffestiniog Railway locomotive "Blanche"
  • ...that the Ffestiniog Railway, chartered on May 23, 1832, is the oldest surviving railway company in the world?
 
A boxcab electric locomotive of the Milwaukee Road
 
A dual gauge diamond crossing
 
Shinkansen 500 Series at Kyoto Station, March 2005
 
The observation car end of the Nebraska Zephyr at IRM
 
Matheran Railway number 740 at Pages Park Station, Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway
 
Peter Cooper
 
A gondola in a train passing through Rochelle Railroad Park
  • ...that because of its low side walls, a gondola can be used to carry either very dense material, such as steel plates or coils, or bulky items such as prefabricated pieces of rail track?
 
Soo 1003 in Madison, Wisconsin
  • ...that one of the delays in the restoration of Soo Line 1003 was due to an order for boiler flues that were three quarters of an inch (19 mm) too short?
 
A handcar from the Roaring Camp and Big Trees Railroad
  • ...that handcar enthusiasts organize races between handcars driven by five person teams (one to push the car from a halt, four to pump the lever)?
 
Aerial view of Boston Lodge