Portal:Trains/Did you know/June 2012

June 2012

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Settsu-shi Station in March 2010
 
The platform side of Seremban station in 2007
 
SEPTA PCC II car number 2334 in service on route 15
 
A Seoul Metro 3000 series EMU on Line 3 in 2009
 
An Okhotsk limited express train on the Sekihoku Main Line in 2007
  • ...that the current Sekihoku Main Line connecting Shin-Asahikawa in Asahikawa and Abashiri Station in Abashiri in Japan is made up of segments from the Abashiri Main Line (網走本線, Abashiri Honsen), which opened in 1913, the Yūbetsu Line (湧別線, Yūbetsu-sen), which opened in 1921, and the original Sekihoku Line (石北線, Sekihoku-sen), which opened in 1932?
 
A RABDe 500 train at speed between Schwarzenbach SG and Algetshausen-Henau in 2004
Santolan station in 2009
Santolan station in 2009
 
Postcard showing the Sam Houston Zephyr circa 1940
 
Route map of the Salvador Metro as of 2011
 
A disused section of the Salekhard–Igarka Railway between Salekhard and Nadym in 2004
  • ...that engineering problems on the Salekhard–Igarka Railway, an incomplete railway in northern Siberia, included construction across permafrost, a poor logistical system, and tight deadlines compounded by a severe lack of power machinery, all of which led to railway embankments that slowly settled into the marsh or were eroded by ponding?
 
Hozukyo station on the Sagano Scenic Railway in 2011
 
A Škoda 15 T class tram in Riga in 2010
 
The proposed Zip Rail could use tains like thisTalgo XXI train photographed in 2007
 
RENFE class 352 locomotive number 352-009 at Irún station in 2000
 
The August Kranti Rajdhani Express at a station in 2009
 
A station of Ferrocarril Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, formerly the British-owned Buenos Aires Western, in 1968
 
A 1939-built replica of the locomotive Arend in 2004
 
The private car "Caritas" at Boston's South Station in 2001
 
Pieksämäki railway station in 2009
  • ...that in 1885, citing a cost preference, the Finnish government decided to build the line to Savonia on a different alignment than originally planned, which put Pieksämäki railway station a couple of kilometres east of the village, in the middle of what was then an uninhabited swamp?
 
Midland Railway number 990 in photographic grey livery in 1909
 
The front of Lahore station in 2004
 
Oregon Pacific #901, an EMD SW8, parked in the American Steel siding in 2009
  • ...that in the mid-1990s the East Portland Traction Company, now known as Oregon Pacific Railroad, ran an excursion train known as Samtrak named after the railroad's owner, Dick Samuels, as well as a play on Amtrak, the national passenger railroad company?
 
Ochanomizu Station and the Kanda River in 2007
 
Preserved ED class number 103 in 2009
 
A passenger train on the North-South Railway in 2009
 
North Adelaide station in 2003
 
A bridge of the former Newtown Square line in Haverford, Pennsylvania, in 2011
 
The Tista Express on the Narayanganj-Bahadurabad Ghat Line in 2011