Portal:Trains/Did you know/August 2013

August 2013

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A postcard showing Pere Marquette's passenger trains in Michigan
 
Preserved C36 class locomotive number 3642, built by Clyde Engineering in 1926, on an excursion train in 2010
 
Chernihivska station in 2011
  • ...that Chernihivska station on Kyiv Metro's Sviatoshynsko–Brovarska line has a second platform for eastbound trains that was used when the station was the line's terminus for quicker unloading of passengers who were traveling from the centre to prevent the congestion in the small station vestibules during peak hours?
 
Chicago's Central Station in 1971
 
Broadstone Station building in 2002
 
Fulgence Bienvenüe in front of the entrance to Monceau station
  • ...that Fulgence Bienvenüe, who has been called "Le Père du Métro" (Father of the Métro), designed a special procedure of building the Paris Métro tunnels to allow the swift repaving of surface roads, which included building the crown of the tunnel first and the flooring last, the reverse of the usual norm at that time?
 
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station
 
SNCF locomotive number 241.P.17 at Nantes station in 1969
  • ...that before becoming general manager of SNCF in 1949, Louis Armand invented in 1940-41 a water treatment process for preventing the calcification, or furring up, of steam locomotive boilers that came to be known as the Traitement Integral Armand?
 
The remains of the Mexican Canyon Trestle near Cloudcroft in 2009
 
A 213 series EMU on an Akō Line local service at Osafune Station in 2006
 
A TWR 70-000 series EMU at Ikebukuro Station in 2018
 
Animator Leiji Matsumoto being appointed honorary station master for one day in March 2008
 
A T-669 class locomotive leads a passenger train in Albania in 2001
 
A local 620 series train on the Yōrō Line in 2005
  • ...that when Kintetsu's Nagoya Line in Japan was regauged to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in) in 1959, the Yōrō Line was left at 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge partly due to through freight trains to the Japanese National Railways (JNR) at Ōgaki and Kuwana, because the Yōrō Line is shorter between these stations than JNR lines and used as a shortcut?
 
Remains of the Dreamland Monorail in 2009
  • ...that the route of the Yokohama Dreamland Monorail in Japan included steep grades of as much as 100‰ (10%), and while the monorail vehicles were altered to cope with the high grades, increasing their weight, the strength of the track beam was not increased to match, resulting in damage to the track within a year of its opening?
 
Cassius Wicker in 1902
 
Wallan station in 2012
 
Alstom AGV train running at 200 km/h on the large circuit in 2008
  • ...that of the two large standard gauge railway track ovals designed for continuous running of new rail vehicles at the Velim railway test circuit, which has become one of the main testing locations for new types of rolling stock designed for use in Europe, the village of Sokoleč, Czech Republic, lies completely inside the larger circuit?
 
The Eastern facade of Urawa Station in March 2013
 
George Turnbull in 1868
  • ...that a major constraint for George Turnbull, chief engineer of the East Indian Railway who oversaw its construction from 1851 to 1862, was the lack of both quality clay and brick-building skills resulting in the change to importing much ironwork from England for the many bridges and other structures on the line?
 
Portland Vintage Trolley car 511 at the stop on 5th Avenue at Montgomery Street in 2009