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July 2005

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A rollsign on the MBTA
 
An H-24-66 owned by Canadian Pacific
 
Swiss Federal Railways logo on one of the railroad's passenger cars
 
Aerial view of the Graniteville accident's aftermath
 
A pantograph
  • ...that pantographs are now the dominant form of current collection for modern electric trains, because while they are more expensive and fragile than a third rail system, they also allow for higher voltages?
 
A Connex train in Melbourne, Australia
  • ...that in addition to operating passenger train services in much of Europe, Connex Group also operates in Australia, Colombia, Israel, Lebanon and New Zealand?
 
Timothy Hackworth
 
Restroom facilities aboard a passenger car
 
An electric multiple unit pulling into Tile Hill station on the West Coast Main Line in Coventry, England.
  • ...that due to differences among European railway electrification systems, multisystem locomotives that can operate under several different voltages and current types are common?
  • ...that a clearance car is used to check the clearances around the tracks and ensure that trains conforming to the railroad's standard loading gauge or dynamic envelope will not encounter any obstruction?
  • ...that České dráhy, the national rail system in the Czech Republic, is that nation's largest employer?
 
Santa Fe Railroad number 5000, a 2-10-4
 
2 foot (610mm) Narrow-gauge tracks at the Leighton Buzzard Railway in Bedfordshire, England
 
A turntable at the Orange Empire Railway Museum
 
Frank J. Sprague
 
A PRR K4s in revenue service
 
A transporter wagon under a standard-gauge car
 
Closeup of the flanged wheels (retracted) on a HiRail truck
 
Tama Toshi Monorail
 
Alfred Belpaire
 
A restored baggage car
 
Eugene V. Debs, as seen in 1912