Portal:Trains/Did you know/July 2012

July 2012

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The right-of-way of the Port Morris branch in the Bronx, New York, in 2012
 
A postcard of the Listowel and Ballybunion Railway circa 1900
 
Yasaka Station entrance in 2008
 
Albert Smith White circa 1860
 
Platform 3 at Waterford station, showing the crossover in the track
 
A reproduction of an early wagonway track
  • ...that some early wagonways, commonly cited as the predecessors to the steam locomotive-hauled railways of the early- to mid-19th century, were built with "L" shaped iron rails or plates where the flanges were on the track rather than the wheels?
 
An Sr2 locomotive at Helsinki Central railway station in 2007
 
Franz von Papen, mastermind of the Vanceboro bridge bombing, at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in 1946
 
The Upper Darling Range Railway circa 1920
 
The main building of Ueno station in 2008
 
A No. 6 instrument showing the restoring lever and the tablet tray in the "out" position
 
Turku Central station in 2007
 
Roller coasters of Palisades Amusement Park are visible above the trolley terminal in Edgewater, New Jersey in the early 20th century
  • ...that trolley parks, picnic and recreation areas along or at the ends of streetcar lines in most of the larger cities in the United States, were often created by the streetcar companies in the 19th century to give people a reason to use their services on weekends?
 
A Frankfurter Straßenbahn tram circa 1900
 
The northbound Vermonter operating in top-and-tail formation at Palmer, Vermont, in 2007
  • ...that in contrast to push-pull operations, in top and tail operations trains have a locomotive at each end to simplify direction reversals, but only the locomotive pulling at the front in whichever direction the train is operating is used to propel the train?
 
The Upper Maumee Bridge shortly after the track was removed in 2006
  • ...that in 1982 after a train derailed on the Upper Maumee Bridge and damaged it, a bridge which was originally built in 1902, the Toledo Terminal Railroad which operated the line in Ohio elected not to fix the bridge but instead abandon it stirring up much controversy?
 
The Garabit Viaduct in 2005
 
The Tateyama Cable Car line in 2005
  • ...that travelers on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route in Japan must make six transfers between Tateyama and Ōgisawa, including travel on two different funicular railways, on the 37-kilometre-long (23 mi) route?
 
Jiantan station on the Tamsui line in 2007
 
Takapu Road Station in 2007
 
The platform area of Tai Koo Station in 2007
 
A 785 series EMU on a Suzuran service at Muroran Station in 2007
 
A DMU train on the Stony Point line at Baxter junction in 2010
 
The blocked-off future exit of Spasskaya station in 2009
  • ...that Spasskaya, the current western terminus station of Pravoberejnaya line of Saint Petersburg Metro, does not have a ground-level vestibule or a connecting escalator so passengers have to transfer to one of the connected stations in order to exit to the city?
 
The proposed route of the Southeast High Speed Rail Corridor as of 2009
 
ALCO-built Class 15CA locomotive 2054 "Cheeta" at Vereeniging, Transvaal, in 1989
 
SNCB/NMBS loc 1803 in Bruges railway station in August 2011
 
An Ma class locomotive in 2007
 
Three Baldwin RF-16 locomotives owned by New York Central Railroad in 1958
 
Shannon preserved at Didcot in 2009