Portal:Trains/Did you know/January 2006

January 2006

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  • ...that the Kuala Lumpur Monorail opening was delayed when a safety wheel fell off one of the trains and struck a pedestrian walking beneath the track?
 
Aftermath of Fox River Grove accident
 
JR-Maglev, MLX01, at Yamanashi
  • ...that of the 18.4 km (11.4 miles) of track on the experimental JR-Maglev, 16 km (9.9 miles) consists of track in tunnels?
 
Herbert Kitchener
 
Henry Kirke Porter
 
Closeup of the attachment point between two Triple Crown Roadrailers
  • ...that with their detachable bogies, modern Roadrailers used by Amtrak can travel at speeds up to 100 mph (160 km/h) in either direction?
 
A level crossing in England with four-quadrant gates
 
The S1 at the New York World's Fair of 1939
 
A Wagons-Lits sleeper car in Germany in 2003
 
Didcot Railway Centre yards
 
Memorial tramcar LM-57 in Electric city transport Museum, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
  • ...that one of two surviving LM-57 trams, built beginning in 1957 at the Leningrad Wagon Repair Plant, can be hired for tours of Saint Petersburg, Russia?
  • ...that the newest and heaviest locomotives in Ireland are only allowed to cross Boyne Viaduct (built in 1855) one at a time and cannot be doubleheaded for the crossing?
 
GG1 4890 at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin
  • ...that it has often been proposed for a GG1 to be restored to operating condition, but such discussions have been dropped because a compatible catenary system no longer exists in the United States and the electrical systems of the GG1 contain toxic PCBs?
 
JR East Yamanote line train
 
The private car "Abraham Lincoln"
 
The pilot end of Southern Pacific 4449
 
Charles Carroll of Carrollton
 
Replica of Steam Elephant locomotive of 1815, Pockerley Waggonway, Beamish museum
 
Preserved NOHAB diesel locomotive near Pforzheim, Germany
 
The PRR's only steam turbine locomotive.