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[edit] August 2005

North South Line Platform of Dhoby Ghaut Interchange
A tram with a bow collector in Plauen, Germany
The railway routes of the Netherlands
The aftermath of the Eschede train disaster
Zürich Main Station
The restored Angels Flight railway in Los Angeles
Diagram of a balloon loop configuration in Australia
  • ...that a balloon loop is a track arrangement that allows a train to reverse direction, and return to where it came from, without having to shunt or even to stop?
The Great Central Railway operating on the double-track mainline
CN 3254 powering the yard tour at Steamtown
The Narita Express on July 24, 2005
Locomotive Leasing Partners 2808, an SSD38-2
A ULF tram in front of the Austrian Parliament in Vienna in July 2003
A Bettendorf style truck on display at the Illinois Railway Museum
  • ...that most bogies (also called trucks) have two axles, but some cars designed for extremely heavy loads have been built with up to five-axle bogies?
The entrance to Orange Empire Railway Museum
Logo of EWS
A mail hook on an RPO
  • ...that railway post office cars in North America were often equipped with a hook that could be used to snatch a sack of outgoing mail hanging on a track-side pole as the train passed it?
A steam locomotive driving wheel
  • ...that since a conventional steam locomotive is directly driven, one of the few ways to 'gear' a locomotive for a particular performance goal is to size the driving wheels appropriately; typically larger for passenger train service than for freight service?
Joseph Locke
Southen Pacific 1518, the first SD7 built, preserved at the Illinois Railway Museum
A locomotive of the Japan Freight Railway Company
A Turbo Train in 1973
Raymond Loewy with a steam locomotive showing his design
The Bridge over the River Kwai
A restored PCC operating in San Francisco
Reporting marks on two Canadian Pacific covered hoppers
Drumhead logo from the Santa Fe de Luxe
The aftermath of the Hammond circus train wreck
The EMD E2 used on the City of Los Angeles
RER train at the Gare de l'Est in Paris
Strasburg Railroad number 89, a 2-6-0


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