Portal:Trains/Selected picture/2008 archive
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This is an archive of images that have appeared in the Selected picture section of Portal:Trains in 2008. For past archives, see the complete archive page.
A passenger train with a class 206 locomotive passing the small town of Haag, Lower Austria, circa 1900.
Recently selected: ATSF 3759 with Christmas lights - Steam powered freight in Japan - "Fast Express" US postage stamp
- Week 2
- January 6-January 12
The painting Vor der Vollendung (Before the Completion) by German artist Paul Meyerheim, circa 1876. The painting shows the final touches being applied to a steam locomotive under construction as the shop foreman goes over some details with the workers while work on other equipment goes on around it.
Recently selected: Austrian passenger train - ATSF 3759 with Christmas lights - Steam powered freight in Japan
- Week 3
- January 13-January 19
An preserved interurban car of the Philadelphia and Western Railroad, Pennsylvania, USA. One of its lines is now SEPTA's Norristown High Speed Line (Route 100); the other has been abandoned. Part of the abandoned line within Radnor Township is now the P&W Trail, a multi-use path.
Recently selected: Vor der Vollendung - Austrian passenger train - ATSF 3759 with Christmas lights
- Week 4
- January 20-January 26
A train of the Berninabahn passes "Madonna di Tirano" pilgrimage church in Tirano, Italy.
The Berninabahn is one of several lines of the RhB, the largest network of all the private railways in Switzerland. This line runs from Tirano to St. Moritz over the Bernina Pass and traverses the steepest grades of the network at 7%.
Recently selected: Philadelphia and Western interurban - Vor der Vollendung - Austrian passenger train
- Week 5
- January 27-February 2
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Preserved steam locomotives at Didcot Railway Centre, Oxfordshire, Great Britain. This photograph was taken in October 2001 during one of the Centre's Photographers' Night events.
Recently selected: Berninabahn - Philadelphia and Western interurban - Vor der Vollendung
- Week 6
- February 3-February 9
The concourse of the original Pennsylvania Station, New York City, in 1962. The station was built in 1910 by Pennsylvania Railroad and the above-ground building was demolished in 1964, replaced by Madison Square Gardens. The tracks and platforms remain and are still in use as the current Penn Station under the arena.
Recently selected: Didcot Railway Centre at night - Berninabahn - Philadelphia and Western interurban
- Week 7
- February 10-February 16
Replacing the tire on a steam locomotive driving wheel.
The work is being done here in March 1943 at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway locomotive shops in Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of a gas flame until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in place.
Recently selected: Penn Station concourse - Didcot Railway Centre at night - Berninabahn
- Week 8
- February 17-February 23
The aftermath of a boiler explosion c. 1850.
Locomotive boilers are of a construction with a very small, historically hand-fed furnace (more modern locomotives used mechanical stokers), a boiler barrel containing boiling water under pressure, and tubes containing superheated gases from the fire (a fire tube boiler). Improved design and maintenance markedly reduced the number of boiler explosions by the end of the 19th century.
Recently selected: Retiring a locomotive driver - Penn Station concourse - Didcot Railway Centre at night
- Week 9
- February 24-March 1
Two JNR Class DD51 diesel locomotives lead a freight train in 2004.
The DD51 is a class of Japanese B-2-B wheel arrangement diesel-hydraulic locomotives. 642 locomotives were built between 1962 and 1977 by Kawasaki, Hitachi, and Mitsubishi.
Recently selected: Boiler explosion - Retiring a locomotive driver - Penn Station concourse
Steam locomotives in the roundhouse at Chicago and North Western Railway's yard in Chicago, Illinois.
A roundhouse is a building used by railroads for servicing locomotives. Roundhouses are large, circular or semicircular structures that were traditionally located surrounding or adjacent to turntables. The defining feature of the traditional roundhouse was the turntable, which facilitates access when the building is used for repair facilities or for storage of steam locomotives.
Recently selected: JNR class DD51 - Boiler explosion - Retiring a locomotive driver
A Ce 2/2 class tram of the Rolle - Gimel line in Switzerland in the winter of 1901/1902. The line was in service from 1898 to 1938.
Recently selected: CNW roundhouse - JNR class DD51 - Boiler explosion
The supports for the Lucthspoor under construction in 1873.
The Luchtspoor was a 2.2-kilometre (1.4 mi) long railway viaduct through the center of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Construction was completed on 1877-04-28, with the viaduct forming part of the connection to Amsterdam.
Recently selected: Rolle-Gimel tram - CNW roundhouse - JNR class DD51
LRC locomotive with Nightstar coaches on initial test runs, in Ottawa, 2000. This was one of the last runs of the LRC locomotives.
Recently selected: Luchtspoor construction - Rolle-Gimel tram - CNW roundhouse
Defunct train station at Chiusaforte, formerly part of the Pontebbana railway line, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy.
Recently selected: LRC-powered Nightstar - Luchtspoor construction - Rolle-Gimel tram
A train of the Rigi-Bahnen in Switzerland.
Mount Rigi, situated between two of the arms of Lake Lucerne is the home of two standard gauge rack railways, the Vitznau-Rigi Bahn (VRB) and the Arth-Rigi Bahn (ARB). These two railways, along with the Luftseilbahn Weggis-Rigi Kaltbad (LWRK) cable car, form the Rigi Railways (Rigi-Bahnen).
Recently selected: Defunct Pontebbana station - LRC-powered Nightstar - Luchtspoor construction
Track workers install rail on a line in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. The small cranes help the workers make small adjustments in the rail's position for the track's gauge.
Recently selected: Rigi-bahn - Defunct Pontebbana station - LRC-powered Nightstar
A portion of a train dispatcher's desk in Bologna, Italy. The graphs show train movements between stations (vertical position) over time (horizontal position).
Recently selected: Installing rail in Uruguay - Rigi-bahn - Defunct Pontebbana station
A rare gathering of three ex-LNER A4 locomotives at Grosmont, North Yorkshire Moors Railway, during the LNER Gala on April 4, 2008. Reminiscent of the 'Top Shed' scene of the 1950s, 60009 Union of South Africa, 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley, and 60019 Bittern line up alonsgide each other at 7:30am, as they are prepared for service.
Recently selected: Dispatcher's desk - Installing rail in Uruguay - Rigi-bahn
A set of Chicago and North Western Railway steam locomotives being fueled at the railway's main yard in Chicago, Illinois, in December 1942.
Recently selected: LNER A4 lineup - Dispatcher's desk - Installing rail in Uruguay
The viaduct at Vecchio, 140 metres (459 ft) long and 94 m (308 ft 5 in) high, designed by Gustave Eiffel, is one of 51 bridges and viaducts on the Chemins de fer de Corse on the island of Corsica.
Recently selected: Fueling steam locomotives in Chicago - LNER A4 lineup - Dispatcher's desk
An EN57 class EMU in operation on Szybka Kolej Miejska in Poland in 2007.
Recently selected: Vecchio Viaduct - Fueling steam locomotives in Chicago - LNER A4 lineup
Two standard gauge freight wagons on roll-blocks spotted at an industrial siding in Switzerland. Using the roll-blocks, the freight cars can be moved to the industry directly, eliminating the need for transloading between standard and narrow gauge wagons, and therefore reducing shipping costs.
Recently selected: SKM EN57 class EMU - Vecchio Viaduct - Fueling steam locomotives in Chicago
A train conductor on the platform at Misawa Station, Japan in 2005. Misawa Station opened (under the name Komaki Station) in 1894. The station took its present name in 1961; it became part of the JR system when the Japanese National Railways (JNR) was privatized in 1987.
Recently selected: Transporter truck usage - SKM EN57 class EMU - Vecchio Viaduct
A long-exposure photograph of Amtrak's Southwest Chief leaving Hutchinson, Kansas. The Southwest Chief is the indirect successor to the Santa Fe Railroad's Super Chief, running from Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles, California.
Recently selected: Conducor at Misawa Station - Transporter truck usage - SKM EN57 class EMU
- Week 25
- June 15-June 21
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Recently selected: Southwest Chief time exposure - Conducor at Misawa Station - Transporter truck usage
- Week 26
- June 22-June 28
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Recently selected: - Southwest Chief time exposure - Conducor at Misawa Station
- Week 27
- June 29-July 5
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- Week 28
- July 6-July 12
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- Week 29
- July 13-July 19
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- Week 30
- July 20-July 26
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- Week 31
- July 27-August 2
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- Week 32
- August 3-August 9
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- Week 33
- August 10-August 16
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- Week 34
- August 17-August 23
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- Week 35
- August 24-August 30
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- Week 36
- August 31-September 6
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- Week 37
- September 7-September 13
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- Week 38
- September 14-September 20
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- Week 39
- September 21-September 27
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- Week 40
- September 28-October 4
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- Week 41
- October 5-October 11
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- Week 42
- October 12-October 18
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- Week 43
- October 19-October 25
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- Week 44
- October 26-November 1
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- Week 45
- November 2-November 8
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- Week 46
- November 9-November 15
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- Week 47
- November 16-November 22
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- Week 48
- November 23-November 29
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- Week 49
- November 30-December 6
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- Week 50
- December 7-December 13
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- Week 51
- December 14-December 20
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- Week 52
- December 21-December 27
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- Week 53
- December 28-January 3, 2009
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