Portal:Trains/Did you know/May 2014

May 2014

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Cape Government Railways 1st Class 4-4-0T no. 6, a Neilson locomotive from the 1870s
 
Builder's photo of Cape Copper Company 0-6-2 Clara Class no. 5 Marie circa 1891
 
Limited express Suzuran No. 3 train at Numanohata Station in 2012
 
A 400 series mini-shinkansen train at Yonezawa Station on the Yamagata Shinkansen in 2005
  • ...that JR East introduced the first mini-shinkansen service in 1992 on a section of the Ōu Main Line between Fukushima and Yamagata stations, but while the track gauge was converted from 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in), the line's loading gauge remained unchanged which required the construction of new shinkansen trains with a narrower cross-section?
 
A ceremony commemorating the arrival of the Merci Train in the United States
 
The eastbound Manhattan Limited, pulled by a T1 locomotive, leaves Chicago in 1943
 
A train at Luohu Station in 2007
 
The Vouga line at Aveiro in 2008
 
Illinois Central's Land O'Corn in the 1960s
 
The main facade of Kyoto Station in 2008
  • ...that the construction of the current Kyōto Station building in Japan began a wave of new high-rise developments in the city that culminated in the 20-story Kyocera Building, which has led some to criticize the station's design for taking part in breaking down the traditional cityscape?
 
Kowloon Station at Tung Chung Line platform in 2013
 
Trains at Kinosaki Onsen station in 2008
 
The preserved platform and station awning at Kawatiri in 2007
 
Kanazawa Station tracks and platforms in 2007
 
The preserved Joplin, Missouri, Union Station in 2010
 
A JR East E217 series train built by J-TREC on an Airport Narita service in 2009
 
A WCAM3 at Kurla station in 2007
 
A JR East 485 series EMU on a Hitachi service in 1998
  • ...that before the original Hitachi passenger train services in Japan were phased out in 1998 and fully replaced with Super Hitachi and Fresh Hitachi services, Hitachi trains sometimes consisted of fourteen-car formations of seven-car 485 series EMUs with no Green car accommodation?
 
The Herndon Depot Museum building in 2012
 
China Railways CRH passes through Lianjiang county, Fujian province, China, in 2009
 
1903 system map of Gulf & Ship Island Railroad