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May 2008

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Preserved GS-4 locomotive 4449
 
X20 on a preserved line in Victoria in 1994
 
Diagram of chain-driven valve gear for steam locomotive, designed by Oliver Bulleid
 
Ls40-5438 locomotive in Kościerzyna Railroad Heritage Park
 
Coupling and connecting rod on a locomotive wheel, with counterweight
  • ...that hammer blow, also called dynamic augment, refers to the vertical forces transferred to the track by the driving wheels of a steam locomotive, due to the unbalanced reciprocating motion as well as piston thrusts, which cannot be compensated for by a counterweight?
 
Steam locomotive instruments, Flaman Speed Indicator and Recorder at bottom.
 
Works photograph of TGR locomotive K 1
  • ...that the Tasmanian Government Railways K Class of 1909 was the world's first Garratt-type articulated locomotive, and the original prototype locomotive K 1 has survived into preservation and has returned to operating condition?
 
The collapsed Tay Bridge
 
A C301 car in operation in 2006
 
Indigenous liveried locomotive NR52 with AN2 in Melbourne, Victoria
 
Three UP GEVO locomotives in Kansas in 2008
 
A Swiss-built Forney locomotive used on Finnish State Railways
 
A section of metre-gauge line in Hanoi
 
The Gran Capitán, FA's long-distance service to Misiones province
 
The Gresley valve gear and third cylinder are visible below the smokebox of this 4-12-2
 
Preserved Chinese narrow-gauge Kowloon-Canton Railway locomotive No. 2227
  • ...that only one of the once-numerous Chinese narrow gauge railways, the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+38 in) gauge Kunming-Hekou Railway, remains in the national network and it is expected to be converted to standard gauge soon?
 
Forth Bridge at night
 
The first locomotive on the railway, arriving at Léopoldville in 1898
 
URC locomotives at Kampala station, Uganda
  • ...that Uganda Railways Corporation, the parastatal railway of Uganda, was a joint recipient of the 2001 Worldaware Business Award for "assisting economic and social development through the provision of appropriate, sustainable and environmentally complementary transport infrastructure"?
 
Soo 2719 operating in Two Harbors, Minnesota, in 2007
 
A Connex South Eastern service
 
Locomotive N 110, equipped with booster engine
 
DB AG historic diesel locomotive V200 002 at Stuttgart main station
 
A Vauclain-type compound locomotive
  • ...that a compound locomotive is a kind of steam locomotive where steam is expanded twice by passing it through high and low pressure cylinders in series, resulting in increased efficiency and in many cases, superior riding qualities with consequent less wear on the track?
 
Thermic syphons, viewed through the firebox door