I started on 1 August 2010 to participate actively in the completion of the English and German Wikipedia. At the moment I am mainly interested in adding articles on narrow gauge railways, solid phase welding and welding engineers who focus(ed) on electromagnetic pulse technology (EMPT) and friction stir welding (FSW).
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The Africa Museum is a museum in Berg en Dal in the Netherlands.
The Albion River Railroad was a 25.65 miles (41.28 km) long logging railway from in Albion, California into the forest.
The Aldershot Narrow Gauge Suspension Railway was built in 1872 as an experimental railway at Aldershot Camp.
All for the Beatles is a rock ’n’ roll song from 1964, which was written by Harry Nilsson and John Marascalco.
The Alma-Ata Children's Railway is a narrow gauge children's railway in Almaty in Kazachstan.
The Asfeld-Montcornet railway was a 44 kilometres (30 miles) metre gauge railway in northeastern France, commissioned in 1909 and operated until 1957.
The Euville Light Railway was an approximately 8.8 kilometres long narrow gauge and light railway network with track gauges of 600 mm and 1,000 mm, respectively, near Euville in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region of France.
Russell Allport was an Australian electrical engineer in Hobart, Tasmania.
The American Railroad Company owned and operated a railroad in Puerto Rico.
William Arbegast (1951-2009) was an American mechanical engineer and friction stir welding expert.
The Atami Jinsha Tetsudo (Jap. for Atami man(powered) vehicle railway) was a 7 miles (11 km) long 2 feet (610 mm) manpowerered narrow gauge railway in the province of Izu, Japan which was operated around 1900.
The Aukštaitijos narrow gauge railway is a 68.4 km long tourist train from Panevėžys to Rubikiai in Lithuania with a gauge of 750 mm.
Autonomous Rail Rapid Transit (ART) is a Chinese train that runs on rubber tires instead of steel rails.
Anatoly Balchev (born 1946) is a Ukrainian composer, actor, screenwriter and director.
The Barbados Railway was a 38,6 km long narrow gauge railway on Barbados with a gauge of initially 3 feet 6 inch and later 2 feet 6 inch.
Beagle Gulf is the body of water into which Port Darwin opens.
The Beeches Light Railway is a private narrow gauge railway in Steeple Aston in the garden of Adrian Shooter, the former director of Chiltern Railways.
The Bell's Gap Railroad was a 8½ miles (13.7 km) long standard gauge raiload in Pennsylvania. It was inaugurated in 1873 and consolidated in 1874.
The Beverloo Camp Railway was a 115 km (71 mi) long 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in) gauge railway line in Beverloo Camp near Leopoldsburg in Belgium, which was operated from 1879 to 1940
Bianca Beetson is an Australian contemporary artist.
The Blake Dean Railway was an approximalely 5.5 miles (9 km) long narrow gauge railway with a gauge of 3 feet (914 mm) in the Hardcastle Crags Valley in West Yorkshire.
The Blakesley Miniature Railway was a 804 yards long 15 inch gauge railway from Blakesley railway station to Blakesley Hall in Blakesley in South Northamptonshire, which operated from 1903 to 1946.
Bevan Braithwaite (1939-2008) was chief executive of The Welding Institute and founding director of Granta Park in Cambridge.
Blackmore River flows into Darwin Harbour close to Darwin in the Australian Northern Territory.
Calvin Blignault (1979-2010) was a South African Mechanical Engineer and friction stir welding expert.
William F. Brown (1919- 2010) was a welding engineer, professional engineer and magnetic pulse welding expert.
The Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad was a private single-track standard-gauge steam railroad lying just inside and about midway of the southwestern State line of Nevada.
Rainer Buchmann is a German car designer.
Johann Wilhelm Gottlob Buzengeiger (1778-1836) was a university mechanic, optician and watchmaker in Tübingen.[
Sir Thomas Octavius Callender (born April 1855 in Glasgow; died on 2 December 1938 at Bidborough Court, Kent) was a businessman who promoted the electrical industry.
The Caillet monorail was a monorail invented, patented and developed by Henry Jules Caillet at the end of the 19th century.
The Cairns-Mulgrave Tramway was a private tram line from Cairns to the Mulgrave River. It was built until 1897 to serve the Mulgrave Central Sugar Mill, built in 1895.
The Centennial Monorail was demonstrated at the Centennial International Exhibition of 1876.
The Charming Creek Tramway was a 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) long private logging and mining railway at Ngakawau in Buller District on the West Coast in New Zealand.
The Children's Railway Sakhalin is a narrow gauge miniature railway in the Russian town Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
The Christmas Island Phosphate Co.'s Railway was an 19.7 km long industrial railway between Flying Fish Cove and South Point on Christmas Island.
The Coffs Harbour Timber Company operated a sawmill and a logging railway with a gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) in Coffs Harbour in the Australian state New South Wales, which operated from 1907 to 1914.
John J. Coit (1875–1910) was an experienced railroad engineer, who built and operated four miniature railways in California.
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The Colossus of Ostermunzel is an glacial erratic, which was found in 2013 east of Ostermunzel in Lower Saxony, Germany.
The Columbia and Nehalem Valley Railroad was a normal gauge forest railway near Columbia City, Oregon, which was owned by the Portland based Peninsular Lumber Company.
The Compagnie du Chemin de Fer du Congo was a narrow gauge railway company in the Congo, which built and operated the Matadi–Kinshasa Railway initially with a gauge of 750 mm.
The Drei-Ähren Railway consisted of the 1,000 mm track gauge Electric Tramway from Türkheim to Drei-Ähren and the 600 mm track gauge Military Light Railway from Drei-Ähren to Uhlhorst at Drei-Ähren near Colmar in Alsace.
George William Coventry, 11th Earl of Coventry (1934-2002) was a British peer and politician of the Conservative Party.
Crib bridges were made from horizontally placed logs.
The Dampf-Bahn-Club Sprockhövel operates since 2004 passenger transport with their ridable miniature railway with 127 mm (5 inches) and 184 mm (7¼ inches) gauge in Sprockhövel-Haßlinghausen in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany.
Darwin Harbour is the body of water close to Darwin in the Australian Northern Territory.
The Decauville factory in Moulins was used from 1918 to 1959 by the French railway supplier Decauville at Moulins, Allier.
The Decauville railway at Láchar was an 8.3 km long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm from Íllora-Láchar railway station via the Eiffel Bridge to the sugar mill in Láchar.
The Decauville railway Narès–Inglis–Topçin–Vatiluk was around 1916 a 30–35 km (19–22 mi) long narrow-gauge military railway near Thessaloniki in Greece with a gauge of 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in)
The Decauville Railway of the Bancalari Mill was a 12 km long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm in Manzanares in der Argentine Buenos Aires Province.
The Decauville Railway of the Cobazet Estate was a 12 km long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm near Mosset in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
The Decauville Tramway at Exposition Universelle in Gent, 1913 (French Tramway de Decauville Ainé) was a temporary narrow gauge raiload with a gauge of 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in), which was operated during the World Fair held in Ghent from 26 April to 3 November 1913
The Diégo Suarez Decauville railway was a 24 km (15 mi) long 600 mm gauge military railway from Antsirane to Sakaramy in Madagascar.
The Dry Creek explosives depot was a secure storage facility near Port Adelaide from 1906 to 1995, serving the construction, mining and quarrying industries of South Australia, as well as the mines of Broken Hill in New South Wales.
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Das Dunedin History Museum ist ein Heimatmuseum in der Innenstadt von Dunedin im US-Bundesstaat Florida.
A dutchman (rail) is colloquially a short piece of rail (approximately 4-6 inches, i.e. 100-150mm, long) that is cut specially and carried by the railroad section men in their hy-rail truck along with the tools and oxy-acetylene torch.
The Earl of Dudley’s Railway or Pensnett Railway, was a 40 miles (64 km) long network around the Earl’s Iron Works at Round Oak near Brierley Hill.
The Eastlake Park Scenic Railway was a 984 m (3229 feet) long miniature railway in the 1:3 scale with a gauge of 457 mm (18 inch), which operated from 19 May 1904 to 11 May 1905 in the Eastlake Park (now Lincoln Park) in Los Angeles in California
The Efferenn’s Trust was founded in 1881 by the Last Will of the independent gentleman Carl August Efferenn.
Gotthart A Eichhorn (* 1941) is a German photographer, photodesigner and author.
Eimer's organs are sensory organs of moles.
The Electric Tramway in Mandalay was owned and operated by the Mandalay Electric Company, which was incorporated in London in October 1902 with a capital of GBP 200,000.
The electric railway of the White Knob Copper Co. was operated near Mackay, Idaho, having 7.1 miles (11.4 km) of railroad, two electric locomotives and 40 ore cars.
The Electron Hydroelectric Project by Puget Sound Energy on the Puyallup River in Pierce County, Washington generates 22 MW of electricity.
Elizabeth, Princess of Urach and Countess of Württemberg (1894-1962) was the wife of Karl Aloys of Liechtenstein.
Elizabeth River flows into Darwin Harbour close to Darwin in the Australian Northern Territory.
The line of the Elmira & Seneca Lake Railway Co., which was opened for operation on June 19, 1900, extended from Horseheads, New York, to Seneca Lake.
The Epsom Salts Monorail was a short-lived Lartigue Monorail in San Bernardino County, California, in the United States.
The Evansville and Eastern Electric Railway was put into operation 10 June 1906 was one of the very few electric lines in the United States which did not parallel a steam railroad.
The Fairview Quarry at Fairview, Bergen County, New Jersey was operated around 1910 for several years by the Public Service Railway of New Jersey mainly for the production of track ballast.
The Fairytale Express Graz is a 2 km long narrow gauge grotto railway with a gauge of 600 mm in the tunnel of the Schloßberg (castle hill) in Graz.
The Filovia system was an electric power supply for trackless trolley busses.
Daniel James Hatfield Finch-Hatton, 17th Earl of Winchilsea, 12th Earl of Nottingham (born 7 October 1967) is a British Peer.
The Fishery Railway Hortobágy is a narrow gauge railway with a gauge of 760 mm at the fish ponds near Hortobágy in Hungary.
The Flying Merkel (1911–1915) was a motor cycle of the US-American company Merkel in Milwaukee.
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La Fonderie, Brussels Museum of Industry and Labour is a museum about the Industrial Revolution in Brussels.
The Forest Railway Welschbruch was a narrow gauge forest railway near Barr in the Bas-Rhin department of France.
Frauenthal is a castle in Deutschlandsberg in Styria.
Friction stir welding and its variants are used for many industrial applications in the shipbuilding, aerospace, automotive, railway and fabrication industry sectors.
Roy Geddes (1949-2006) was Dean of Science and Engineering at Auckland Institute of Technology.
Gibbons & Harris were around 1905-1912 manufacturers of narrow gauge geared steam locomotives in Auckland, New Zealand.
The Gravel pits of Incheville and Bouvaincourt are now several communal lakes in the valley of the Bresle in France, which are used for recreation and fishing.
Greig & Beadon's Patent Light Railway was a patented system of narrow gauge locomotives and rolling stock.
Groom & Tattersall was a company of ironfounders and engineers in Towcester, Northamptonshire.
Grubb's Tramway (Mowbray) was a partially completed, private logging tram line in Tasmania from the junction of the Launceston-George Town Road at the Tamar River near Mowbray to a saw mill at Pipers River.
Grubb's Tramway (Zeehan) was a more than two miles long horse-drawn light railway in Western Tasmania.
The Guignicourt–Rethel railway was an 35 kilometres (22 miles) long narrow gauge and metre gauge railway in the north of France, commissioned in 1904/05 and partially closed in 1940-1961 or re-gauged in 1971 and operated as a standard gauge railway until 1987.
Halmstad Bolmen Railway was a 64 km long narrow gauge railway line in the Halland County of Sweden.
Anthony Philip Harbord-Hamond, 11th Baron Suffield, MC (1922-2011) was a British peer, soldier and politician of the Conservative Party.
The Hardivillers-Breteuil narrow gauge railway was an approximately 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) long works railway in the north of France with a track gauge of 600 mm.
The Haute-Soule forest railway was a narrow gauge railway with a track gauge of 600 mm, which led from Tardets-Sorholus uphill to Larrau and Saint-Engrâce.
Hells Kitchen Railway Museum is a private railway museum with a bar in the Main Street of Castlerea, Co. Roscommon in Irland.
The Herceghalom rail crash occurred on 1 December 1916 at 00:24 o'clock in the station of Herceghalom, Hungary, on the Budapest–Hegyeshalom line as side collision of an express train running into a shunting passenger train.
The Hill Top Colliery in Sharneyford between Bacup and Todmorden was, until 2014, the last coal mine still in operation in Lancashire.
A hose bridge can be used by tram operators to avoid delays by not being able to cross over fire hoses.
The Hot Springs Railroad ran from Hot Springs to the race track.
The light railway of the Ryttaren Peat Factory is a 3.5 kilometres (2 mi) long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in), which is still operated as a heritage railway.
The Lordonbahn was a 42 km long narrow-gauge railway network with a gauge of 600 mm from Weiler (Villé) to Chaume de Lusse in the Vosges in France.
Thongchat Hongladarom (born 1937) is Chairman of the Board and Independent Director of Samart Corporation PCL.
William James (1854-1889) was a British engineer, who worked in India.
Karaganda Children's Railway is a narrow gauge children's railway in Karaganda in Kazachstan.
The Košice Children's Heritage Railway is a 4.2 km long metre gauge heritage railway with a track gauge of 1,000 mm.
Kuaotunu is a small coastal township at the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula on the mouth of the Kuaotunu River on the North Island of New Zealand.
The La Helvecia sawmill was a wood processing company founded in 1866 at 580 Calle Colón in San Fernando de la Buena Vista in the Gran Buenos Aires area, in Argentina
The Lewiston & Youngstown Frontier Electric Railway connected the villages of Lewiston and Youngstown in Niagara County, New York.
Loch Ewe Distillery is the smallest legally operated destille of Scotland in Drumchork near Aultbea in the Scottish Highlands
The Luodong Forest Railway was a 36.4 km long narrow gauge forest railway with a gauge of 2 ft 6 in near Luodong in Yilan County, Taiwan.
The Makerua Swamp in the Manawatu-Whanganui Region of New Zealand was around 1910 the location of the flax mills that once operated on the banks of the Manawatu River.
The Marrawah Tramway was a forest railway near Marrawah in Tasmania with a gauge of 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm).
Dieter Mecke (1933-2013) was a German biochemist, chemist and pharmacist.
Reinhard Mecke (1895-1969) was a German physicist, who focussed on chemical physics. He was one of the pioneers of infrared spectroscopy.
The Museum for Railway Technology Novosibirsk is a railway museum in Novosibirsk.
The Museum of the Moscow Railway at Rizhsky station in Moscow is an open-air exhibition of rolling stock near the Moscow Rizhsky railway station in Moscow.
The Naphtha Hill Decauville Railway was a 32.5 km (20.2 mi) long horse-drawn railway with a gauge of 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in), which was supplied by the French company Decauville.
The Nihotupu Tramline is a now 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) long industrial narrow gauge railway at Nihotupu in the Waitakere Ranges south-west of Auckland in New Zealand, which is being used since 1907 for building and maintaining the dam and water pipeline at the Upper Nihotupu Reservoir.
Jalaluddin Jalal (1923-1977) was an Afghan poet and painter.
Einar Lilloe Gran (born 1886) was a Norwegian engineer and and pioneer of aviation in Norway.
Friction stir spot welding (FSSW) is a pressure welding process that operates below tghe melting point of the workpieces.
Granta is the name of two of the four tributaries of the River Cam, although both names are often used synonymously.
Granta Park is a science and technology park in Great Abington near Cambridge, England.
Groz-Beckert is market leader for industrial machine needles, precision engineering as well as sytems and services for the manufacture and sewing of textiles.
Catrin G Grosse (* 1964), also known as Catrin Große is a German painter, graphic designer and sculptor.
Ulrich Grosse (* 1953) is a German public transport consultant.
The H & H Railroad or colloquially Dinky ran over a 1 mile long track from East Stanwood to Stanwood in Snohomish County, Washington.
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Hibernia 41-E and 42-E were steam locomotives of Hibernia AG.
The Italjet Dragster is so far the only mass-produced scooter with a RAAD forkless front suspension and a spaceframe.
Jean Howard Hagstrum was Professor Emeritus of English at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
John Hinrichs († 2012) was a welding engineer and Founder, Part Owner and Vice President Technology at the company Friction Stir Link, Inc. in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
The painting of HMY Alexandra, which I had originally uploaded, appeared in the "Did you know?" section of the Main Page on 10 April 2011.
Saifuddin Jalal (* 1958), pseudonym Mayparast, nick name Saiffi, is an Afghan philosopher, writer und poet.
A Jeepomotive or Jeep train is a Willys Jeep coverted to be used on a railroad
Martyn Jope (1915-1996) was an English archaeologist and chemist. He worked temporarily during the Second World War as a biochemist.
Marian Karel (born 1944) is a Czech sculptor and artist.
The Kauri Timber Company, Auckland was from 1888 to 1944 a large logging and sawmilling company in New Zealand.
Kerry Woollen Mills are historic wool mills based just off the Ring of Kerry.
Lewis Kingman (1845-1912) was a civil engineer, who surveyed and built several thousands of miles of railroad lines.
Kokiri is a settlement with a railway station on the Arnold River in the west of New Zealand's South Island.
The Kokiri Tramway was at least from 1895 to the 1902 a forest railway with a gauge of 1,067 mm near Kokiri on the Arnold River in the west of New Zealand's South Island.
Adam Koppy (1973-2013) was an experienced friction welding machine builder.
Johnny K Larsson is a Swedish engineer and Technical Specialist, Body-in-White Joining Technologies, at Volvo, where he focuses on joining technologies for passenger car body structures.
The Makerua Swamp in the Opiki District of the Manawatu-Wanganui Region of New Zealand were around 1910 the location of the flax mills that once operated on the banks of the Manawatu River.
Hendrik Mäkeler (born 1979 in Rinteln) is a German numismatist.
Carroll Miller became Chairman of Interstate Commerce Commission in 1936.
Prince Karl Aloys of Liechtenstein (1878-1955) was Imperial and Royal Cavalry Master until the end of the monarchy of Austria-Hungary and 1918-1920 temporarily Prime Minister of the Principality of Liechtenstein.
The Live Oak and Gulf Railway was a standard gauge railway in Florida which was owned and operated privately from 1895 to 1916.
The Kivu Railway was a 94 km long narrow gauge railway with a gauge of 3 ft 6 in from Kalundu to Kamaniola in the Congo, which operated from 1931 to 1958.
Kreidler Florett RS was a German moped of Kreidler's Metall- und Drahtwerke G.m.b.H. in Kornwestheim near Stuttgart (Germany), of which 125,000 pieces have been built between 1967 and 1981
L’Oasis sacrée d’oum Lâalag is located 50 km southwest of M'Hamid El Ghizlane in Morocco at the old piste to Timbuktu, only a few kilometers off the Algerian border.
The Lawa Railway was a 173 km long single track narrow gauge railway with a gauge of 1,000 mm in Suriname.
The Lundebanen was a military narrow-gauge railway near Farsund in Norway operated by the German occupying forces during World War II from 19 April 1943.
The MAN steel house was a pre-fabricated building by MAN (Machine Works Augsburg-Nürnberg), of which 230 units have been built world wide from 1948 to 1953.
Manoir de Lébioles is a castle like manor in Creppe, a quarter of Spa in Belgium.
The metre gauge railway from Fleurines and Villers-Saint-Frambourg to Pont-Sainte-Maxence was a 8.2 km (5.1 mi) long light railway with a gauge of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) running from the sand pits at Fleurines and Villers-Saint-Frambourg to the wharf at Pont-Sainte-Maxence on the River Oise in the department Oise in the Hauts-de-France region of France (until 2016: Picardy).
Charles-Louis Michelez (1817-1883) was a French photographer.
The Mohave Museum of History and Arts in 400 W. Beale Street, Kingman, Arizona is a private, not-for-profit organization, which was founded in 1961. It focuses on the preservation of the heritage of Northwestern Arizona and of the presentation of history and arts to the public.
The Monthermé – Hautes-Rivières – Sorendal – Membre railway, locally also known as the Petit Train de la Semoy, was a 27 kilometres (17 miles) long narrow gauge and later metre gauge railway in the north of France, which was put into service section by section from 1901 and operated until 1950.
The Lyndale Railway Company operated the Minneapolis, Lyndale and Lake Calhoun railway.
The New York & Brighton Beach Railway was a standard gauge railway line in Brooklyn on Long Island, New York.
The Neversink Mountain Electric Railway ran out of Reading, Pennsylvania onto the summit of Neversink Mountain.
Robert Hugh Molesworth Kindersley, 3rd Baron Kindersley, (born 1929) is a British peer, politician and business man.
The Captain Marshall Field Expeditions were undertaken by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.
M'Hamid El Ghizlane is a small oasis town in southern Morocco with about 7500 inhabitants.
Mandelsloh is a borough of Neustadt am Rübenberge in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
The Madoera Stoomtram Maatschappij on Madura Island was one of the railway companies in the Dutch East Indies.
Felipe Mendez participated at the 2nd Captain Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition in 1926.
The Société Anonyme des Ateliers Edouard Mennig was a Belgic manufacturer of machine tools, especially for woodworking.
Messrs. Smyth Brothers' Tramway was from 1897 to 1908 a forest railway in New Zealand.
The Minoan Moulds of Palekastro are double sided schist casting moulds from the time of the Minoan culture for casting cultural figurines and symbols.
The Narita Yume Bokujo narrow gauge railway or Makiba Line is an approximately 1⁄3 mile long narrow gauge heritage railway with a track gauge of 2 ft near the Japanese City of Narita in Chiba Prefecture.
The North Arm Powder Magazine near Port Adelaide, South Australia was from 1858 to 1906 a secure storage facility for dynamite and gelignite to be used in the construction, mining and quarrying industries.
The Nouzon–Gespunsart–Corbion railway was a 26 kilometres (16 mi) cross-border narrow gauge railway in the north of France and south of Belgium, which was put into service in sections from 1896 with a gauge of 800 mm (2 ft 7+1⁄2 in), converted to metre gauge in 1903, and operated in sections until 1955.
The Ocean Pier Railway at Atlantic City was an electric narrow gauge railway, which ran over the entire length of the Ocean Pier in Atlantic City, about 1,900 feet (580 m) into the ocean.
The Ohio Falls Iron Works were located on Water Street between W. 4th and 5th Streets in New Albany, Indiana.
The Omaha & Southern Interurban Railway Company built and operated around 1907 an interurban railway from South Omaha, Nebraska, to Belleview College and Fort Crook, 6 miles south.
Ontario and San Antonio Heights Railroad Company operated Ontario’s unique Gravity Mule Car from 1887 to 1895.
J. Oor was a piano factory based in Brussels.
Vellaatt Chembalancheri Balakrishna Panicker (1889-1912) was an Indian journalist and poet.
The Parish Church of Reinhardtsgrimma is an evangelical lutheran church in Reinhardtsgrimma, a part of Glashütte in Saxony.
Professor Bryan Patterson (1909-1979) was a paleontologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
The Patton Motor Company was an street car manufacturer in Chicago.
The Petroleum Institute of Thailand (PTIT) is a non-profit organisation supporting the upstream oil and gas industry as well as the downstream petroleum and petrochemical industry in Thailand.
The Piha Tramway was from 1906 to 1921 a 3-foot (914 mm) narrow gauge forest railway in New Zealand, the steepest sections of which were operated on inclines by steam-powered cable winches.
The Poix-Terron-Châtillon railway was a 40 kilometres (25 mi) narrow gauge railway in the north of France with a gauge of 800 mm (2 ft 7+1⁄2 in), which was opened by the Chemins de fer départementaux des Ardennes in sections from 1897, converted to metre gauge in 1923, and operated until 1933.
Portrait of Père Paul is a painting by Claude Monet.
Price's Bush Tramway was around 1903 bush railway near Akatarawa in the Tararua Range of New Zealand's North Island with a raised third rail for braking the loaden trucks like on the Rimutaka Incline.
Priest's Leap is a straight and steep single-lane mountain pass between Coohola Bridge and Bonane east of the more winding road from Bantry to Kenmare in Ireland.
PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited (PTTGC) is a subsidiary of PTT Public Company Limited.
Quail Island (Northern Territory) came into the news when SS Brisbane struck the closeby Fish Reef.
Rail transport in Brunei did not play an important role during the development of Brunei.
The Railway Inn, Spofforth is a pub in Spofforth, North Yorkshire.
Chira Ratanarat is the Chief Executive Officer of The Siam Chemicals Public Company (SCC).
Khunying Thongtip Ratanarat is Member of the Board of Directors of The Siam Fine Chemicals and of the Foundation for the Petroleum Institute of Thailand.
The Raucourt–Vendresse railway was a 15 kilometres (9 mi) 800 mm (2 ft 7+1⁄2 in) narrow gauge railway in northern France, commissioned by the Chemins de fer départementaux des Ardennes on 5 June 1898, inaugurated on 21 August 1898, converted to metre gauge in 1923, and operated until around 1933.
The Röntgen Memorial Site in Würzburg, Germany reminds on the work of the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923) and his discovery of the X rays, for which he was granted the Nobel price of physics.
Charlie Rosen (1937-2007) was an American metallurgical engineer and friction stir welding expert.
The Rowtor Target Railway was a militay narrow gauge target railway south of Okehampton in Dartmoor, England with a gauge of 610 mm (2 foot 6 inch)
The Royal Land Company of Virginia was set-up in Rockingham County, Virginia, on 27 March 1876, for the purpose of purchasing and developing mineral lands, mines and manufacturing their products.
The Sedan–Corbion–Bouillon–Paliseul railway was a 44 km (30 mi) long cross-border metre gauge railway in northeastern France and southwestern Belgium, commissioned in sections from 1890 and operated until 1933 and 1957/1960, respectively.
Semmes Motor Company was a long-term Ford Motor Company car dealership in Scarsdale, New York, founded by Williams Semmes.
James A. Trimble (born 1847 in New York City) was an inventor and the founder of his namesake street car works, which operated from 1869.
The Sakuradani Light Railway is a private, ridable 15 inch gauge electric railroad in the Toyono District of the Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
Salsaringer is a Lower Franconian dialect-band.
Eric Sharp, Baron Sharp of Grimsdyke (1916-1994) was a British business man and Member of the House of Lords.
August Ludwig Schott (1751–1787) was a German lawyer and professor.
The Schulzengrundbach is a small river left of the Westerbach in Landkreis Aschaffenburg in the Bavarian Spessart.
Arthur Searcy (1852-1935) was President of the Public Service, Deputy Commissioner of Taxes and Stamps and President of the Marine Board in South Australia.
Seton Castle was built on the site of the Seton Palace, which formerly belonged to the Earls of Winton.
The Shymkent Children's Railway is a narrow gauge children's railway in Shymkent in Kazachstan.
The Siam Chemicals Public Company (SCC) blends and trades chemicals, fertilisers and lubricants and manufactures basic chemicals for downstream industries such as sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, various bases and salts.
Siderodromophobia is the fear of trains, train trips or railways.
John Samuel Slater (1850-1911) was a British professor of Civil Engineering at the Presidency College, Calcutta, and later principal of the Engineering College in Sibpur.
The Skewen Dram Road was a 3 miles (5 km) long mining railway near Skewen in Wales with a gauge of 2 feet 7 1⁄2 inches (800 mm).
The Small West Siberian Railway is a narrow gauge miniature railway in the Russian city Novosibirsk.
Soda locomotives were a variant of fireless locomotives, in which steam was raised in a boiler, expanded through cylinders in the usual way, and then condensed in a tank of caustic soda that surrounded the boiler.
Spoorijzer was a narrow gauge railway importer and manufacturer in Delft, Netherlands.
Springdale, Nevada is a privately owned ghosttown in Nevada, USA, which is not accessible to the general public.
St. Kitts Scenic Railway is an 18 miles (29 km) long narrow gauge railway line along the coast line on the island of St Kitts with a track gauge of 760 mm (2 ft 5 15⁄16 in).
The Stann Creek Railway was used from 1908 to 1938 as a 25 miles (40 km) long 3 ft (914 mm) gauge narrow gauge railway from Commerce Bight to Middlesex in Belize.
The Stradbally Woodland Railway is a 0.4 km (¼ miles) long single-track 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway line at Stradbally Hall in Stradbally, Co. Laois in Ireland.
Stuttgarter Nachrichten are a newspaper that is published in Stuttgart-Möhringen, Germany.
The Soultz-Haut-Rhin Railway was a 9.8 km long military light railway with a track gauge of 600 mm that the Germans built and operated during World War I from Soultz-Haut-Rhin to the Niederwald terminus below the Hartmannswillerkopf near Wattwiller in Alsace.
Tailored blanks are sheets, which are typically made from differnt alloys or thicknesses.
Taipingshan Mountain Forest Railway or Bong Bong Train was a 36.4 km long narrow gauge forest railway with a gauge of 2 ft 6 in in Yilan County, Taiwan.
Taringamotu Tramway, nicknamed Taringamotu Express, was a bush railway near Oruaiwi, also known as Waituhi, a settlement in the valley of the Taringamotu River in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region of New Zealand's North Island.
The Telford steam tram at the Telford Steam Railway runs on a 610 mm (2 ft) narrow gauge track.
The Thalbahn Habsheim was a 24.6 km long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm at Habsheim in Alsace.
The creation of the violin is a fairy tale of the Transsylvanian Roma.
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Robert C. Thorne was an internationally recognised paleontologist.
The Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum is located in Threlkeld three miles (5 km) east of Keswick, in the heart of the Lake District in Cumbria.
The Ticknall Tramway was 12.8 mi (20.6 km) long 4 ft 2 in gauge horse-drawn plateway from Blakesley railway station to Blakesley Hall in Ticknall, Derbyshire, England, which operated from 1802 to 1913.
The Timoleague and Courtmacsherry Railway was a 9 miles long light railway connecting Timoleague and Courtmacsherry.
Le Train Michon was an 18 kilometres (11 mi) long secondary railway line from Don-Sainghin to Fromelles in the Weppes(fr) plain in northern France.
The Tramway at Bourron was a 6 km long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm from the sand pits at Bourron-Marlotte via the Bourron-Marlotte – Grez railway station to the Canal du Loing opposite to Montcourt-Fromonville in France.
The Tramway at Darvault was an approximately 5.5 km long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm from the sand pits at Darvault to the Canal du Loing at Montcourt-Fromonville in France.
The Tramway at Villeneuve-sur-Verberie was a 6.5 km long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm from the sand pits at Villeneuve-sur-Verberie and Roberval to the port at Moru (Pontpoint) on the Oise in the department Oise in the north of France.
The Tramways of the Salinas Chicas were two altogether 22 km long narrow-gauge railways with a gauge of 750 mm from the Nicolás Levalle railway station to the Salinas Chicas in the La Pampa Province in Argentinia.
The Tremblois-lès-Rocroi–Petite-Chapelle railway was a 17 kilometres (11 miles) long narrow gauge and later metre gauge railway in the north of France, the first section of which was put into service in 1895. It operated until 1950.
A trolleyboat is an electrically driven boat on canals and particularly in canal tunnels. It takes its energy like a tram or trolleybus from one or two overhead wires respectively.
The Tübingen Hoplitodromos Runner is an antique statuette of an Greek athlete with a helmet made around 485 BC in Attica.
The Tübingen triangle is apart from the Penrose rhomb tilings and their variations, a classical candidate to model 5-fold (respectively 10-fold) quasicrystals.
The Tuhawaiki Point Lighthouse or Jack’s Point Lighthouse stands near to Timaru at the east coast of the South Island von New Zealand.
David Urquhart, Baron Tayside (1912-1975) was a Scottish business man and life peer.
The Vaca Falls Railway was a 15 miles (24 km) long 3 ft (914 mm) gauge logging railway between the Vaca Falls and the Chiquibui Forest on the Mountain Pine Ridge in Belize.
The VDMA (Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau e.V.) is a German engineering association.
The Vedganga river is a river in India
The Veteran was a 4-4-0 "American" type steam locomotive built in 1856 by The Baldwin Locomotive Works.
The Decauville railway Vigía Chico-Santa Cruz was a nearly 57 km long, 600 mm gauge railway line, which was built during the Caste War of Yucatán at Santa Cruz (now Felipe Carrillo Puerto) in Mexico and operated from 1905 to 1932.
Walsh, Lovett & Co. was a Birmingham firm that dealt in metals and construction material in South America and opened a branch in Calcutta in 1874.
The Waro Limestone Scenic Reserve is a conservation area near Waro near Hikurangi, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of Whangarei on the North Island of New Zealand.
The Warwickslade Cutting Railway was a light railway temporarily built to fill in the Warwickslade Cutting, a straight drainage ditch dug circa 1850 in the New Forest of south-east England, with imported gravel and clay.
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The Wasigny–Mézières railway was a 43 kilometres (27 miles) long narrow gauge and metre gauge railway in the north of France, which was put into service in sections from 1897 and operated until 1948.
The Wasigny–Renneville/Berlise railway was a 25 kilometres (16 miles) long metre gauge railway in the north of France, which was commissioned in 1909 and operated until 1948.
The Waukesha Beach Railway operated from 1895 an interurban railway from Waukesha to Pewaukee Lake in Wisconsin.
H. Bullock Webster (1855-1942) was a self-trained painter who worked in the UK, Canada and New Zealand.
Ernst Wiener Co., New York was a US-American locomotive manufacturer.
Alexander Wilson († 1922) was a supervisor in a Dundee jute mill for over 20 years.
The World Food Festival was held from 18 September to 27 October 2013 in Rotterdam.
The Yarlside Iron Mines tramway was built as an innovative railway from the Parkhouse Haematite Ore Mines to the Roose railway station on the Furness Railway, in North Lancashire.
The Yerba Buena Steam Tram (Spanish Tranvia rural a vapor de Yerba Buena) was a 12 km (7.5 mi) long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in) in the Argentine city of Yerba Buena.
Johannes Zollikofer (1633-1692) was a Swiss reformed vicar.
Ships and Maritime History edit
The shipyard A. & J. Inglis was set-up by Anthony Inglis and later managed by his son John Inglis. A selection of remarkable ships of A. & J. Inglis includes paddle steamers and turbine ships.
MV Clyde was built at A. & J. Inglis in Pointhouse, Glasgow, and equipped with engines by L. Gardner and Sons, Manchester.
PS Bruselas was built by A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow, Scotland and launched in 1911.
PS Hankow was an iron paddle steamer built at A and J Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow with Yard No. 107.
PS Pioneer was built by A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow and launched for the David MacBrayne Ltd fleet.
PS Weeroona was launched in 1910. It was initially owned by Huddart Parker Ltd, Melbourne
SS Blanche was the first ship built at A and J Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow and launched in 1863 with Yard No 1.
SS Brisbane was a 85.8 m long passenger, cargo and mail ship, built by A & J Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow, launched in 1874.
SS Cheduba was the third ship built at A and J Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow with Yard No 3.
SS Erl King was built at A and J Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow and launched in 1865 and owned by Robertson & Co London. It got wrecked on Long Reef, Key West Florida.
SS Sirsa was a steamship built at A & J Inglis in 1883 and owned by the British India Steam Navigation Company.
SS Tavolara was built in May 1910. The ship was was sunk while being used under German flag as hospital ship Innsbruck.
TS Vanadis was a turbine yacht designed by Clinton Crane of Tams, Lemoine & Crane in New York, built at A. & J. Inglis, Pointhouse, Glasgow and launched in 1908.
The Vouziers-Buzancy railway was an initially 24 kilometres (10 miles) long narrow gauge and later metre gauge railway in northeastern France, which was taken into service in 1897 and operated until 1933.
Walkatomica was a steam boat that operated 1885-1898 around St. Marks, Florida.
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The American Fork Railroad was a 16 miles (30 km) long narrow gauge railway with a gauge of 3 ft (914 mm) from American Fork to Forest City in Utah, wich operated from 1872 to 1878.
C. T. Abdurahim is a writer, religious scholar and educationist.
A beak-spouted ewer (German: Schnabelkanne) is a ewer, jug, pitcher or flagon with a spout formed in the shape of a beak.
Bethlehem Old Work is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
Anna Bosch (1864-1949) was the wife of Robert Bosch.
The Chemins de Fer de la Basse-Egypte owned and operated a network of up to seven sections of metre-gauge railway lines in the area of Mansourah in Egypt.
John Ewen Davidson (1841-1923) was a pioneer sugar planter and miller in Queensland.
Engstingen is a municipality in the administrative region of Tübingen on the Swabian Jura plateau, about 15 km south of Reutlingen.
The Fayoum Light Railway was a 750 mm gauge Egyptian light railway, which was founded by a group of Egyptian Coptic investors.
The Harman geared locomotive was a geared locomotive by Alfred Harman from Melbourne in Australia.
James Ingram McDonald (1865–1935) was a New Zealand painter, photographer, film-maker, museum director, cultural ambassador film censor, and promoter of Maori arts and crafts.
Muqeem Shah is a town a in the Dera Ismail Khan District of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.
Hiranyakeshi river is a left-bank tributary of Ghataprabha River originating in the western ghats in the Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra.
The Holy Island Waggonway was made up of three successive waggonways on the island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland, England.
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The Judensau at the choir stalls of Cologne Cathedral is a medieval, arguably antisemitic wood carving at the side of one of the seats in the choir of Cologne Cathedral.
Karinkallathani is a village in Perinthalmanna taluk of Malappuram district of the Indian state of Kerala.
The Mackay Railway was a 68 km line situated in the Pioneer River valley in North Queensland, Australia.
T. Narasapuram is a village and a mandal in West Godavari district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
Bhayankavu Bhagavathi Temple is a famous Bhagavathi temple on the Alathiyoor Pallikadavu Road in Purathur, Tirur situated in Malappuram district.
Sardhar is a village located on Rajkot to Bhavnagar highway and 30 km (18.6 miles) away from Rajkot in the state of Gujarat, India.
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