Portal:Trains/Did you know/March 2007

March 2007

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NMBS/SNCB trains in Antwerp-Central
  • ...that in 2005 the National Railway Company of Belgium was split into three parts: Infrabel to maintain the infrastructure, NMBS/SNCB to manage train operations, and NMBS/SNCB-Holding to own and coordinate the other two?
 
Map of Thailand rail lines
 
William Wordsworth
 
Victorian Goldfields Railway
 
CN Tower
 
Kalka-Shimla Railway train traveling toward Shimla in 2000
 
Andrew Vivian
 
A Ma On Shan Rail train in Hong Kong
 
GO Transit cab control car with the CN Tower in the background
  • ...that since it began operating in the greater Toronto, Canada, area in May 1967, GO Transit, has carried more than 1 billion passengers?
 
Velachery station in Chennai
 
Changing wheels of the Trans-Mongolian railway at the Mongolia-China border
 
The Empire State Express takes on water from a track pan in 1905
 
Cornish Riviera Express circa 1910
 
Aftermath of a boiler explosion circa 1850
 
The Mormon Rocks
  • ...that a section of Cajon Pass in Southern California is named Mormon Rocks in commemoration of a group Mormon settlers who crossed through the pass in 1851?
  • ...that bank engines, also called helper engines, are sometimes added to trains that require more power or traction to climb a grade (or bank)?
 
William Dargan bridge on the Luas Green Line
 
A Bombardier CX-100 train at South View LRT Station
 
The Goldfields Railway at the Waikino terminus in 2005
 
An Austro-Hungarian armoured train of 1915
 
The approach to the Hell Gate Bridge
 
Locomotives receiving maintenance at Crewe Works
 
Two 400-class Redhen railcars working a Belair to Adelaide local train in 1990
 
Volos station in 1990
 
John Bull circa 1893
 
A covered hopper owned and operated by Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad
 
End of track at Thurso