Portal:Trains/Did you know/July 2022

July 2022

1926 Birney streetcar 224, listed on the NRHP, passes the Fort Smith Museum of History in September 1997

• ...that four vehicles in the Fort Smith Trolley Museum collection, a streetcar and three steam locomotives, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places?

Vauxhall, a Forrester single from 1834

• ...that the tank variant of the Forrester single was the first passenger tank engine to enter service in the world?

A northbound Boston Elevated Railway Main Line train with a smoking (S) car on front leaves Forest Hills station in 1910

• ...that in the early 20th century, Forest Hills station was called "the chef-d'œuvre of rapid transit development in Boston"?

A drawing of the Flying Dutchman published in Popular Mechanics magazine in 1931

• ...that the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company used the horse-powered Flying Dutchman as its main motive power for a few months in 1830?