Portal:Trains/Did you know/September 2022

September 2022 edit

 
The signage on the side of the former Galesburg station in 1985
 
A CR400BF high-speed train in Putian in 2019
 
The Fuyang station building and adjacent railway hotel in September 2020
  • ...that due to the serious shortage of vehicles, boxcars accounted for half of all the departing cars at Fuyang Station in the mid-1990s?
 
The IND Eighth Avenue Line platform at Fulton Street station in November 2021
 
The 8000 series train in January 2018
 
A Class 420 locomotive circa 1905
 
The westbound Southwest Chief in Colorado in July 2011
 
The track and platform at Fridley station in 2017
 
A section of the Fremantle line in May 2012
 
A cover of the 1909 Santa Fe Railway pamphlet describing Fred Harvey hotels, dining rooms and sample menus
  • ...that by 1968, when it was sold to Amfac, Inc., the Fred Harvey Company, well known for its business relationship with the Santa Fe Railway, was the sixth largest food retailer in the United States?