Portal:Trains/Did you know/November 2018

November 2018

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RENFE AVE and SNCF TGV trains at Figueres Vilafant station in 2013
 
portrait drawing of Charles Elliott Perkins circa 1910
 
Penrith station in 2011
 
PRR 5549, the last of the T1 class locomotives built for Pennsylvania Railroad, on display in 1949
 
A MARC train on the Penn Line at Odenton station in 2014
 
The City Island Railroad's 'Flying Lady' circa 1910
 
The remains of PD Draw bridge in 2007
 
One of the columns on the platform at PATH's Newport station in 2005
 
The platforms and tracks at Paul Avenue station as seen from a passing train in 2005
 
A PATrain train at Pittsburgh in 1985
  • ...that although PATrain service between Pittsburgh and Versailles, Pennsylvania, was twice as fast as comparable bus service, it was discontinued in 1989 due to declining ridership and increasing operating losses?
 
Postcard view of the original Passaic Park station circa 1914
 
Parnell Tunnel southern portal, showing the current double-track line and the former single-track tunnel entrance in 2011
  • ...that there is a proposal to re-open the original Parnell Tunnel in New Zealand to pedestrians and cyclists, as part of cycleway projects in the area?
 
Interior of an Amtrak parlor car in 2009
 
Logo of the United States Military Railway Service
 
A double-stack container train of the Panama Canal Railway in 2007
 
A Baldwin-built 4-6-0 and a passenger train at Haifa station in 1931
 
A Palembang light rail car in July 2018
 
An Inverclyde Line service to Glasgow Central departs Paisley Gilmour Street station in 2012