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Today, April 9, 2007, is in week number 15.
The following pictures have been displayed as the Selected picture on Portal:Trains:
Chicago and North Western Railway towerman R. W. Mayberry operates the retarders at Proviso Yard in Chicago, Illinois, May 1943.
Hump yards are the largest and most effective classification yards with the largest shunting capacity. The heart of these yards is the hump: a lead track on a hill (hump) over which the cars are pushed by the engine. Single cars, or some coupled cars in a block, are uncoupled just before or at the crest of the hump and roll by gravity into their destination tracks in the classification bowl (the tracks where the cars are sorted). They are slowed in their descent by retarders that grip the wheels of passing cars to slow them by friction.
Recently selected: West Coast Wilderness Railway - Copenhagen Metro tunnel - Wheelset stockpile
- Week 2
- January 7-January 13
A Hankyu Railway train passing a railroad crossing at Amagasaki, Japan.
Hankyu Railway (阪急電鉄, Hankyū Dentetsu) is a Japanese private railway that provides commuter and interurban service to the northern Kansai region for 1,950,000 passengers every weekday. Its main terminal is at Umeda Station in Osaka.
Recently selected: Operating the retarders at Proviso Yard - West Coast Wilderness Railway - Copenhagen Metro tunnel
- Week 3
- January 14-January 20
United States President Warren G. Harding in the cab of a Milwaukee Road class EP-3 electric locomotive.
The Milwaukee Road's class EP-3 comprised ten electric locomotives built in 1919 by Baldwin and Westinghouse. They were nicknamed "Quills" because of their use of a quill drive. Although they were good haulers and well liked by engineers, poor design and constant mechanical problems plagued them for their entire lives and they were the first of the Milwaukee Road's electric locomotives to be retired.
Recently selected: Hankyu Railway - Operating the retarders at Proviso Yard - West Coast Wilderness Railway
- Week 4
- January 21-January 27
The Kinzua Bridge, near Mount Jewett, Pennsylvania, photographed shortly after its construction in 1882.
At the time it was built, the Kinzua Bridge was the highest, at 301 ft (92 m), and longest, at 2,053 ft (626 m), railway bridge in the world. Most of the bridge was destroyed on July 21, 2003, by a tornado. The bridge pieces have been left as they fell, and it is intended to make the ruins a visitor attraction to show the forces of nature at work.
Recently selected: Milwaukee Road class EP-3 - Hankyu Railway - Operating the retarders at Proviso Yard
- Week 5
- January 28-February 3
A train on the Ostbahn, the first railway on the German island of Sylt in 1894.
The Ostbahn was the first railway on the island, inaugurated on July 8, 1888, connecting Westerland to the port of Munkmarsch, a distance of 4.2 km (2.6 mi). This metre gauge railway later became part of the Sylter Inselbahn.
Recently selected: Kinzua Bridge - Milwaukee Road class EP-3 - Hankyu Railway
- Week 6
- February 4-February 10
A steam locomotive driven train crossing the Moscow-Riga Railroad Bridge over the Moscow Canal in 1948.
The Moscow-Riga Railroad Bridge is a concrete arch bridge that spans Moscow Canal between Tushino and Shchukino districts in northwestern Moscow, Russia. The bridge does not have an official name and is sometimes called the Railroad bridge over Moscow Canal. It was completed in 1936, designed by A.S. Bachelis.
Recently selected: Ostbahn - Kinzua Bridge - Milwaukee Road class EP-3
- Week 7
- February 11-February 17
A 2-8-2 steam locomotive that is no longer used.
In Whyte notation, a 2-8-2 is a steam locomotive that has one unpowered leading axle followed by four powered driving axles and one unpowered trailing axle. This configuration of steam locomotive is most often referred to as a Mikado (frequently shortened to Mike), but it is also referred to as a MacArthur. The 2-8-2 was particularly popular in North America, but was also used in continental Europe and elsewhere.
Recently selected: Moscow-Riga Railroad Bridge - Ostbahn - Kinzua Bridge
- Week 8
- February 18-February 24
An early section car maintenance of way vehicle, similar to a speeder.
In this image, the car's engine is being used to both drill a hole in the rail and to grind a part at the back of the car. Cars like this one have since been replaced with Road-rail vehicles, self-propelled vehicles that can be legally used on both roads and rails.
Recently selected: 2-8-2 - Moscow-Riga Railroad Bridge - Ostbahn
- Week 9
- February 25-March 3
A derailed Shinkansen train as a result of the Chūetsu earthquake on 2004-10-23.
The 2004 earthquake caused the only derailment of a Shinkansen while in regular service. There were no injuries reported among the train's 154 passengers.
Recently selected: Early section car - 2-8-2 - Moscow-Riga Railroad Bridge
A model of a Hanko-Hyvinkää Railroad 4-4-0 and freight train on a backyard railroad.
A backyard railroad is a privately owned, outdoor railroad, most often in miniature, but large enough for one or several persons to ride on. One of the most famous backyard railroads was Walt Disney's Carolwood Pacific Railroad, in operation from 1950 to 1953, which inspired Disney to surround his planned Disneyland amusement park with a working, narrow gauge railroad.
Recently selected: Derailed Shinkansen - Early section car - 2-8-2
A mid-Victorian era photograph showing a Colne Valley and Halstead Railway 2-2-2WT at Halstead engine shed.
This Sharp built engine was the only single used on the line. Originally constructed in 1849 for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, the locomotive was involved in an accident close to New Cross in 1855. After being rebuilt it was sold to the Colne Valley and Halstead Railway. This photo shows the driver involved in the crash (Mr C. Taunton) who was transfered to Halstead shed along with the locomotive. Today, much of the Colne Valley and Halstead Railway forms the basis of the Colne Valley Railway.
Recently selected: Backyard railroad - Derailed Shinkansen - Early section car
Tracks of the Uganda Railway near Mombasa circa 1899.
The Uganda Railway once linked the interiors of Uganda and Kenya to the Indian Ocean at Mombasa in Kenya. Today only the 5 mile (8 km) line between Kampala and Port Bell and the 120 mile (193 km) main line from Kampala to the Kenyan border at Tororo remain in use.
Recently selected: CV&HR 2-2-2WT - Backyard railroad - Derailed Shinkansen
New wood sleepers to be used in the Rivera line reconstruction, Tacuarembó, Uruguay.
Also visible in this image is an inspection pit where maintenance workers can view the undersides of rolling stock; and further back in the image is a turntable and roundhouse.
Recently selected: Uganda Railway - CV&HR 2-2-2WT - Backyard railroad
Cotswold Rail HST powercar 43087 in Hornby Railways livery at the northern end of the secondary through road between platforms 3/4 and 5/6 at Bristol Temple Meads railway station.
Hornby, founded in 1901, is a manufacturer of model railway equipment based in the United Kingdom.
Recently selected: Sleeper stockpile - Uganda Railway - CV&HR 2-2-2WT
- Week 15
- April 8-April 14
- The Portal:Trains Selected picture has not yet been chosen for this week.
Recently selected: Hornby liveried HST - Sleeper stockpile - Uganda Railway
- Week 16
- April 15-April 21
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- Week 17
- April 22-April 28
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- Week 18
- April 29-May 5
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- Week 19
- May 6-May 12
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- Week 20
- May 13-May 19
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- Week 21
- May 20-May 26
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- Week 22
- May 27-June 2
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- Week 23
- June 3-June 9
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- Week 24
- June 10-June 16
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- Week 25
- June 17-June 23
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- Week 26
- June 24-June 30
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- Week 27
- July 1-July 7
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- Week 28
- July 8-July 14
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- Week 29
- July 15-July 21
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- Week 30
- July 22-July 28
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- Week 31
- July 29-August 4
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- Week 32
- August 5-August 11
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- Week 33
- August 12-August 18
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- Week 34
- August 19-August 25
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- Week 35
- August 26-September 1
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- Week 36
- September 2-September 8
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- Week 37
- September 9-September 15
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- Week 38
- September 16-September 22
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- Week 39
- September 23-September 29
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- Week 40
- September 30-October 6
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- Week 41
- October 7-October 13
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- Week 42
- October 14-October 20
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- Week 43
- October 21-October 27
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- Week 44
- October 28-November 3
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- Week 45
- November 4-November 10
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- Week 46
- November 11-November 17
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- Week 47
- November 18-November 24
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- Week 48
- November 25-December 1
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- Week 49
- December 2-December 8
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- Week 50
- December 9-December 15
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- Week 51
- December 16-December 22
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- Week 52
- December 23-December 29
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- Week 53
- December 30-January 5, 2008
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