...that the
New Zealand RailwaysK class2-4-2steam locomotives of 1877, a highly successful design that had profound influence on New Zealand locomotive development, were dumped in the
Oreti River for embankment protection after retirement in the 1920s and one, K 88, has been recovered from the riverbed and restored to full working order?
...that the EMD DDM45, a
narrow gauge version of the
SD45 built for service in
Brazil, required two additional driving axles since the smaller narrow gauge
traction motors would otherwise be overloaded by the locomotive's electrical output?
...that slack action, the amount of free movement of one
railway car before it transmits its motion to an adjoining
coupled car, can aid in starting heavy trains, since the application of the
locomotive power to the train operates on each car in the train successively, and the power is thus utilized to start only one car at a time?
...that
Bombardier Transportation's TRAXX locomotive's name is an
acronym for Transnational Railway Applications with eXtreme fleXibility; reflecting the versatility of a locomotive design with both
passenger and
freight applications and both
electric and
diesel variants, later electric versions of which are quad voltage machines able to operate on most
Europeanelectrification schemes?
...that the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, a
U.S. rail operator which was originally chartered in 1833, has long since had its rail operations subsumed by
CSX Transportation, but continues to operate in the
real estate development business, controlling numerous properties along its former rail lines?
...that
Bucharest's Gara de Nordrailway station was heavily bombed by the
Allies in 1944 in a campaign aimed at the
German supply lines, as the station played an important part in the
Romanian railway network and was the main departure point for troops headed to the
Eastern Front?
...that of the 1340 Class 141R2-8-2steam locomotives built for the
SNCF (
French National Railways) by
American maunfacturers in the immediate
postwar period, only 1323 actually entered service as 16 were lost at sea off
Newfoundland when the ship transporting them sank in a violent storm, and a seventeenth was lost in the
Marseilles harbour while unloading?
...that compensation to landowners whose properties were in the path of
Ireland's first railway, the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, included for
Lord Cloncurry the building of a private foot bridge over the line to a bathing area complete with a
Romanesque temple, a short tunnel and a
cutting to maintain his privacy?
... that although the Union Pacific Big Boy is often billed as being the largest
steam locomotive ever built, in each of the categories of weight, length, horsepower and tractive effort a larger locomotive can be found?
...that obstacles to the completion of the Cape to Cairo Railway, a project to cross
Africa by rail first proposed in the late 19th century, have included opposition to
Britishcolonial expansion by other colonial powers, the use of three different
rail gauges on completed sections, through to the
current ongoing turmoil in
Sudan?
... that the Listowel and Ballybunion Railway (a
Lartigue Monorail that operated in
Ireland between 1888 and 1924) required each side of the carriage to be equally balanced and thus if a farmer wanted to send a cow to market, he would have to send two calves to balance it, with the calves then having to travel back on opposite sides of the same
freight wagon, balancing each other?
...that the
New Zealand RailwaysK class2-4-2steam locomotives of 1877, a highly successful design that had profound influence on New Zealand locomotive development, were dumped in the
Oreti River for embankment protection after retirement in the 1920s and one, K 88, has been recovered from the riverbed and restored to full working order?
...that the EMD DDM45, a
narrow gauge version of the
SD45 built for service in
Brazil, required two additional driving axles since the smaller narrow gauge
traction motors would otherwise be overloaded by the locomotive's electrical output?
...that slack action, the amount of free movement of one
railway car before it transmits its motion to an adjoining
coupled car, can aid in starting heavy trains, since the application of the
locomotive power to the train operates on each car in the train successively, and the power is thus utilized to start only one car at a time?
...that
Bombardier Transportation's TRAXX locomotive's name is an
acronym for Transnational Railway Applications with eXtreme fleXibility; reflecting the versatility of a locomotive design with both
passenger and
freight applications and both
electric and
diesel variants, later electric versions of which are quad voltage machines able to operate on most
Europeanelectrification schemes?
...that the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, a
U.S. rail operator which was originally chartered in 1833, has long since had its rail operations subsumed by
CSX Transportation, but continues to operate in the
real estate development business, controlling numerous properties along its former rail lines?
...that
Bucharest's Gara de Nordrailway station was heavily bombed by the
Allies in 1944 in a campaign aimed at the
German supply lines, as the station played an important part in the
Romanian railway network and was the main departure point for troops headed to the
Eastern Front?
...that of the 1340 Class 141R2-8-2steam locomotives built for the
SNCF (
French National Railways) by
American maunfacturers in the immediate
postwar period, only 1323 actually entered service as 16 were lost at sea off
Newfoundland when the ship transporting them sank in a violent storm, and a seventeenth was lost in the
Marseilles harbour while unloading?
...that compensation to landowners whose properties were in the path of
Ireland's first railway, the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, included for
Lord Cloncurry the building of a private foot bridge over the line to a bathing area complete with a
Romanesque temple, a short tunnel and a
cutting to maintain his privacy?
... that although the Union Pacific Big Boy is often billed as being the largest
steam locomotive ever built, in each of the categories of weight, length, horsepower and tractive effort a larger locomotive can be found?
...that obstacles to the completion of the Cape to Cairo Railway, a project to cross
Africa by rail first proposed in the late 19th century, have included opposition to
Britishcolonial expansion by other colonial powers, the use of three different
rail gauges on completed sections, through to the
current ongoing turmoil in
Sudan?
... that the Listowel and Ballybunion Railway (a
Lartigue Monorail that operated in
Ireland between 1888 and 1924) required each side of the carriage to be equally balanced and thus if a farmer wanted to send a cow to market, he would have to send two calves to balance it, with the calves then having to travel back on opposite sides of the same
freight wagon, balancing each other?