Portal:Trains/Did you know/December 2006

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December 2006

A train arriving at Melbourne Central
  • ...that some cab signalling systems include fail-safes that can apply the brakes and bring a train to a stop if a dangerous condition occurs?
Köln-Holweide station
Bahmi station c. 1890
Anson P. Morrill
D/S Ammonia, the last remaining steam powered rail ferry
  • ...that a locomotive pilot (sometimes called a cowcatcher) is designed to successfully deflect an obstacle hit at speed by pushing it upwards and sideways out of the way?
The facade of Antwerp-Centraal
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway timetable for a special train service that ran on the railroad's opening day
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A preserved forty-and-eights class boxcar
  • ...that the term forty-and-eights, used to describe a class of boxcar used in Europe from the 1870s through World War II, refers to the cars' carrying capacity, said to be 40 men or eight horses?
  • ...that the tower on Union Station in Nashville, Tennessee, originally contained an early mechanical digital clock, but when replacement French silk drive belts proved unavailable during World War I, the clock was replaced with a traditional analog clock?
SBB Ae 6/6 "Appenzell Innerrhoden" in front of the Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express at Siders
A jacobs bogie on the preserved Nebraska Zephyr trainset
  • ...that because jacobs bogies carry the weight of two adjacent cars, the cars that use this type of bogie can only be separated in the railroad shops?
Exterior of Augsburg Hauptbahnhof
  • ...that the station building of Utrecht Centraal in the Netherlands, originally built in 1865, was torn down and replaced in 1973 with Hoog Catharijne, Europe's largest shopping mall at the time?
Victorian Railways "H" class steam locomotive
Map of Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa
A diesel-powered train passing Sandiaoling Station on the Yilan Line
BLS Cargo class Re4 locomotive