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June 2018

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Two Green Line trains at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 2015
 
One of the Hudson locomotives in Mercury service in 1939
 
Two rusty hopper cars on the Melba Line in 2009
 
A new boiler under construction at Meiningen in 2016
 
The first car operated in subway service in the United States with its first crew, motorman James Reed and conductor George Truffant, in 1897
 
The Mayiladuthurai–Coimbatore Jan Shatabdi Express at Mayiladuthurai Junction in 2009
 
Drawing of Matthias Baldwin in 1899
 
A preserved Mason locomotive in Michigan
 
First tramload of cheese, butter and wool to Smithton on the Marrawah tramway
  • ...that the first regularly scheduled train on the Marrawah Tramway in Tasmania, which was founded as a timber hauling line, carried nine tons of cheese and two tons of wool, skins and hides?
 
A Class 165 DMU on the Marlow branch line in 2006
 
Mansfield station in 2011
 
Map of the Manhattan Beach Railway in 1878
 
A Manchester Corporation Tramways tram in front of Manchester London Road station in the 1900s.
 
The inaugural Maitree Express on April 14, 2008
 
William Mahone in 1865
 
Mære Station circa 1948
  • ...that the Parliamentary proposal in 1900 that led to the construction of Mære Station in Trøndelag, Norway, originally suggested two separate nearby stations?
 
A RENFE class 103 train on the Madrid-Barcelona line in 2012
 
An M1 on the Long Island Rail Road at Jamaica in 2005
  • ...that the M1 and M3 EMU cars built by Budd for use on commuter lines radiating out from New York City were the catalyst of change for their respective systems as the high-level boarding required all stations in the electrified zone to be rebuilt from 1966-1968?
 
Three of the four TE70-4S on their first day of service
 
Map of the three Bavarian main lines with the Ludwig South-North Railway in red
 
Two trains at Lübeck Hauptbahnhof in June 2017