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June 2005

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Great Western Railway "Olton Hall" painted for the Hogwarts Express
 
The only 4-14-4 ever built
  • ...that only one example of a 4-14-4 steam locomotive was ever built, and that the Russian railways that tested it found it unsuitable for continued use?
 
Santa Fe Railroad locomotives
 
Standard and narrow gauge tracks converge to become a dual gauge track
 
The station platform at Brisbane Central
 
The convergence of tracks at Clapham Junction
 
Track diagram of a wye
  • ...that a wye is a track configuration that allows entire trains to be turned around easily?
 
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
 
Chicago and North Western
 
Henry Kirke Porter
 
A GE locomotive painted in the SPSF merger scheme.
 
Maersk containers
 
A FRED on an eastbound UP train at Rochelle Railroad Park
 
Railfans in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
 
Orient Express advertising poster
 
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
 
Maglev train in Shanhai
 
Deutsche Reichsbahn logo
 
An ALCO automobile
 
Nagoya Station and the adjoining JR Central Towers
 
The blue unit monorail train passing the lagoon