Portal:Trains/Did you know/January 2016

January 2016

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Natzaret tram station in 2012
 
Takargo locomotive number 6002 at Constantí in 2010
 
Aerial view of Taipei Railway Workshop soon after its construction in 1935
  • ...that the 16.82-hectare (41.6-acre) Taipei Railway Workshop, built in 1935 and designated an "official national historic site" in 2015, was the largest and oldest facility of its kind on the island of Taiwan?
 
SŽ 363-004 at Divača station in 2011
 
The Südbrücke in 1862
 
A C Class Tram at terminus of Ocean Street to Rose Bay Line
 
A switchman on the Chicago & North Western Railway in 1943
 
A commuter train with the SL logotype at Stockholm Central station in 2005
 
The Storey (Madera) stop in 2001
 
Railmotor number 1901 crosses the Splitters Creek railway bridge circa 1989
 
NGR no. 307, SAR no. 1277, at Delmas Colliery, Hawerklip, May 1977
 
A diesel railcar built by Sorefame being loaded at Oporto Campanhã station in 2006
 
Honigmann caustic soda locomotive in Aachen, Germany, in 1884
  • ...that steam for a soda locomotive was raised in a boiler and expanded through cylinders in the usual way like other fireless locomotives, but the steam was then condensed in a tank of caustic soda that surrounded the boiler to chemically generate more heat and steam?
 
SNCB 2826 with a freight train near Gremberg yard in October 2015
 
A refurbished Sendai Subway 1000 series train in 2008
  • ...that Sendai Subway's 1000 series trains introduced in 1987 were the world's first trains to use fuzzy logic to control their speed which made their acceleration smoother and their energy consumption more efficient than other train types?
 
The tracks and platforms of Seibu-Shinjuku Station in 2012
 
A tram in Rosario circa 1930
 
A green line train at the Roosevelt elevated station in 2011
  • ...that when the new elevated station was constructed at Roosevelt on the Chicago 'L' system in 1993, it was intended that there should be a direct link to the subway station below it, but this connection wasn't built until 2002?
 
NMBS and NS trains at Roosendaal Station in 2008
 
The tracks and platforms at Rokkō Station in 2014
 
Drawing of the 1853 Norwalk accident
 
Puerto Barrios station in 1896
 
A Nippon Sharyo DMU at Mimico GO Station in 2014