Portal:Trains/Did you know/May 2018

May 2018

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LRC locomotive number 38 at Boston South Station in 1980
  • ...that before VIA Rail came to depend on the LRC for the majority of its intercity service in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor, Amtrak used two of them on the Beacon Hill (New Haven-Boston) and Shoreliner (New York-Boston) services?
 
Brisbane Hedley-Doyle Stepless tram, No. 301 circa 1920
  • ...that experimental low-floor trams were placed in service as early as 1912?
 
A ballast cleaning train at work in Germany in 2005
 
Car 001 (ex-Portland 512) being delivered in February 2017
  • ...that the two replica Brill streetcars built in the 1990s and purchased for the Loop Trolley in St. Louis, feature steel frames under their wooden bodies and more-modern propulsion equipment including rebuilt 1940s trucks?
 
One of Pacific Electric's "Big Red Car"s in 1955
 
A train on the London Bridge – Greenwich Railway Viaduct above Landmann Way in 2010
 
An LSWR "boat train" between Southampton and Waterloo stations in 1911
 
A London and Blackwall Railway train at Minories station circa 1840
  • ...that although the 5 ft 12 in (1,537 mm) track gauge for the London and Blackwall Railway was specified in the railway's authorization act, chief engineer Robert Stephenson, free to choose the method of propulsion, opted for cable haulage from stationary steam engines?
 
Postcard of the Cornish Riviera Express published by Locomotive Publishing Company circa 1910
 
LNWR Bloomer Class No. 895 Torch in photographic grey livery c.1880
 
B17/6 No. 61642 "Kilverstone Hall" pulling a passenger train in 1958
  • ...that in 2008 the North British Locomotive Preservation Group launched a project to build two new LNER Class B17 4-6-0 locomotives?
 
The preserved LNER A4 No. 60007 "Sir Nigel Gresley" in 2009
 
LMS 6229 preserved at the National Railway Museum in 2009
 
A class 319 electric train at Liverpool Lime Street station in 2015
 
Four Amtrak trains on display at Los Angeles Union Station for National Train Day 2010
  • ...that from 2008 to 2015 Amtrak sponsored National Train Day on the Saturday closest to May 10 to spread information to the general public about the advantages of railway travel and the history of trains in the United States?
 
A lithograph of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway crossing the Bridgewater Canal at Patricroft
 
Linimo train approaching Banpaku Kinen Koen in 2005
 
The rebuilt track and restored platform at North Thoresby in 2009
 
A locomotive on the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway in 1978
 
Front view of the preserved NKP 779 in 2010