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Taking a page from the WP:SHIP folks, I've devised a componen version of {{ Infobox Station}}, with some documentation at {{ Infobox Station Example}}. This makes the template modular, and permits the additional of multiple "sections" (i.e. passengers). It also allows greater customization: see State/Lake (CTA), where a custom variant of {{ Infobox Station Header}} ({{ Infobox Station Header CTA}}), allows the old-style display. Thoughts and comments? Mackensen (talk) 23:51, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
No good for Greenport (LIRR station). Not only did {{ Infobox nrhp}} not blend in as well as it did for Sebring (Amtrak station), but the old Long Island Rail Road header no longer existed on the newer version. ---- DanTD ( talk) 03:28, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Looks Good —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zol87 ( talk • contribs) 23:21, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I was just wondering about consolidating the US Railroads rather than having a page load of projects to sift through why not just one? The UP is one such example being as this railroad, as well as others serve half the country, is it really necessary to have every state chime in a stake their ground? Should we just have one project, one category, North American Railroad and be done with it rather than a page load of categories and a page load of project banners. It doesn't seem practical to me having so many projects staking claim.
Your suggestion may be appropriate for a few large modern railroads, but the much larger number of small local railroads (many of them historical) might be more easily accessible under the present system. Thewellman ( talk) 08:18, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Another editor has nominated all of the subcategories of Category:Rail transport industry award recipients for deletion as overcategorization. Please visit the deletion discussion page and make your opinions known. Slambo (Speak) 15:51, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to create an article on Beverly Depot station on that line, however I ran into a problem when entering the next station info in the Infobox. This station is the last station (going outbound) before the line splits into two lines going to Newburyport or Rockport resepctivly. Now I've done an article on a station with the same situation once before and I used basicly the same method with this one. When I previewed the article though, I noticed that instead of showing the two next stations, it only showed one. I'm still new here, so I can't tell weather or not this is a template issue or not. Here's my work, see if you can help me with this.
{{Infobox Station | name=Beverly Depot | image= | image_size= | image_caption= | address=12 Park St [[Beverly, MA]] 01915-4202 | coordinates= | line=[[Newburyport/Rockport Line]] | other= | platform= | tracks= | parking= | bicycle= | passengers= | pass_year= | pass_percent= | pass_system= | opened= | rebuilt= | ADA= | code= | owned=[[MBTA]] | zone= | services= {{s-start}} {{s-rail|title=MBTA}} {{s-line|system=MBTA|line=Newburyport|previous=Salem|next=Monserrat|next2=North Beverly|type2=Rockport|type3=Newburyport}} }} '''Beverly Depot''' is a passenger rail station on [[MBTA Commuter Rail|MBTA Commuter Rail's]] [[Newburyport/Rockport Line]].<ref>[http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/lines/stations/default.asp?stopId=19&lat=42.546907&lng=-70.885168] ''MBTA official website''</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/lines/stations/default.asp?stopId=19&lat=42.546907&lng=-70.885168 Swampscott station official website] * [http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/lines/?route=NBRYROCK Schedule]
Murjax ( talk) 00:46, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
{{s-rail|title=MBTA}} {{s-line|system=MBTA|line=Newburyport|previous=Salem|next=Monserrat|type2=Rockport|rows1=2|rowsmid=2}} {{s-line|system=MBTA|line=Newburyport|next=North Beverly|type2=Newburyport|hide1=yes|hidemid=yes}}
Hope this helps. Mackensen (talk) 01:36, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
(why am i editing at 5?)
Should there be a child project on rail transport in the US? Simply south ( talk) 05:02, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
I recently nominated Category:Abandoned stations for renaming. A discussion about the most appropriate name for the category and about the scope of the category has arisen. Part of this is the question which term covers the status of these railway stations best: Disused? Defunct? Former? I would like to ask the members of this WikiProject for their take on this, at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 January 18#Category:Abandoned stations. A ecis Brievenbus 23:14, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Something has always troubled me about the MARC Routebox at Washington D.C.'s Union Station article. If all the other stations on the Brunswick Line are listed from west to east, with DC on the right, then the DC routebox should be listed the same way. The fact that they all run north of the Potomac River shouldn't make any difference. Come to think of it, I've got similar issues regarding Pennsylvania Station (New York City). I wonder if Yonkers (Metro-North station) and maybe Croton-Harmon (Metro-North station) shouldn't be on the right side of the routebox. ---- DanTD ( talk) 02:30, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Now about the VRE issue, that's not just L'Enfant Plaza (Washington Metro), there's something wrong with the templates on both lines that causes them to be sent to the Union Station (Washington Metro) page. I looked at the templates and even tried fixing it but I can't seem to find where the problem is on the template page itself. Murjax ( talk) 01:42, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
The Islington station on the map in the MBTA Franklin Line article is misspelled. I couldn't find where to fix it so if someone who knows where this is, please fix it. Thank you. Murjax ( talk) 03:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
This user was very active in train images and has left the project. Anyone who could write/replace his tagged images would be most appreciated. MBisanz talk 08:32, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Members of WP:TWP are invited to join in this discussion at WT:RAIL. Thanks, -- RFBailey ( talk) 03:48, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I've just completed a significant re-write of The Ghan after working on the Indian Pacific earlier this week and realizing that The Ghan article needed some work. I've raised some of mu remaining questions on Talk:The_Ghan and would appreciate any input, suggestions, etc. Travellingcari ( talk) 21:46, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Someone created a stub article on this class of NYC subway car. I've done some basic tidying etc. on the article, but as I did so, I noticed that the various templates used for the NYC rolling stock, and the St. Louis Car Company article which apparently made this car don't include this particular class. I'm not a train afficianado myself (ducks rapidly as used bogeys fly overhead...), so can I just leave this reminder here for someone more au-fait with the subject to have a quick review and see if anything needs amending ? Thanks. CultureDrone ( talk) 23:08, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. You may be familiar with the Philip Greenspun Illustration Project. $20,000 has been donated to pay for the creation of high quality diagrams for Wikipedia and its sister projects.
Requests are currently being taken at m:Philip Greenspun illustration project/Requests and input from members of this project would be very welcome. If you can think of any diagrams (not photos or maps) that would be useful then I encourage you to suggest them at this page. If there is any free content material that would assist in drawing the diagram then it would be great if you could list that, too.
If there are any related (or unrelated) WikiProjects you think might have some suggestions then please pass this request over. Thanks. -- Cherry blossom tree 16:59, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
I took a look at Westrail after SuggestBot left me a note. I'd love to work on it because it needs some serious help, but the vast majority of sources appear to be locked behind paid gates. Anyone have access to other sources of information? Travellingcari ( talk) 21:21, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
For those of you interested I started an IRC channel for the trains project. Its irc.freenode.net - #Wikipedia-Trains-en -- DP67 (talk/ contribs) 23:41, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Can anyone lend a hand at High-speed rail in Europe? We've brought together all the individual countries' information, but need expansion on rail links, such as the Eurostar, that tie Europe together. Much appreciated Grunners ( talk) 16:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
I have just found out that there is a shortcut, WP:RR, leading to your main page. It is listed neither in your shortcut box, nor in the shortcut directory. It is quite old; it was retargeted from the Three-revert rule on 30 August 2005.
I thought I should write about it here before actually listing it, in case you would prefer it deleted. Personally, I like it, and I find it very relevant and intuitive. Waltham, The Duke of 14:17, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
A new stub template for biographies of people associated with the rails has been proposed over at the Stub sorting Wikiproject. If you would care to comment on the proposal, please do. Caerwine Caer’s whines 22:46, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
City_Hall_(SEPTA_station) and 15th Street (SEPTA station) seem to have been written in complete ignorance of one another, implying that both stations serve both MFL and Broad street lines, and they don't link tot one another. I would fix it but I want to discuss first. -- Qu e ntin Smith 17:11, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
A new article recently appeared at Oregon Electric Railway Museum. It needs categorization, project tagging?, and some work. — EncMstr 17:19, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
I've opened a discussion on the status of the Wisconsin Central at Talk:Wisconsin Central Transportation--input would be much appreciated. Thanks, Mackensen (talk) 20:52, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Tourist Standard Open End is on WP:AR1, I belive this could be an redirect to Tourist Standard Open but I am not quite sure. Taemyr ( talk) 13:58, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Some aspects of the International Limited article don't add up: see my comments here for details. -- RFBailey ( talk) 15:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
The news column on Portal:Trains hasn't been substantially updated in some time. It's not because there isn't news to include there, it's because I've found it very difficult since the new year to find time to make the necessary updates. So, I'm requesting the help of interested editors to fill in with news items. You don't even have to go search it out, since I've got several news items that I planned to add there.
Specifically (in addition to the two items that were already added by other editors):
Is there an editor here who can use these links and update the column and the archives with this information? I've been trying to keep the column limited to the six most recent news items (with everything put into the appropriate MONTH YEAR in rail transport archives), and writing a short paragraph to describe the event with links and footnotes as needed. The entries from before Dec 26 can be used as a model for the kinds of blurbs that I've been adding to the column. Thanks. Slambo (Speak) 21:44, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone object if i started moving all the stations to something like Royal Oak Vancover SkyTrain station? I am not meaning merging the number of articles into that one, i am meaning just standardising\disambiguating the stations. Simply south ( talk) 12:33, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I've tried to convert a few more railroad station infoboxes into the current standard created by Mackensen, and many of these combine National Register of Historic Places infoboxes. However some as you'll find in the archives there are some I've had trouble converting, including Strafford (SEPTA station), and Farmingdale (LIRR station). What I often find is that the railroad-NRHP combo-boxes don't allow services and routeboxes. I actually had to take a routebox out of one in order to convert it to the new version. This would be a big problem for stations like Old Greenwich (Metro-North station) and Cos Cob (Metro-North station). ---- DanTD ( talk) 18:12, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm not a member of this Wikiproject so I don't know if films related to trains, especially ones that include extensive footage of train-related subject matter, are applicable to this project, but for anyone interested I've added Buster Keaton's classic short film The Railrodder to the project. If films are not considered appropriate for the project, feel free to remove the banner. 23skidoo ( talk) 21:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
I've created an article on the Chemin de Fer de Côtes du Nord, which is a FA on the French Wikipedia. I'd like to get this article to GA standard at least, if not FA. I've asked for a peer review (not sure if I should have!) and would like some help with the GA nomination process. Mjroots ( talk) 22:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
I came across the NYP&N RR today. It seems to be the original line of the current Eastern Shore Railroad. There's an oblique mention of the RR on the Cape Charles, Virgnia page, but no mention of it in any other articles. I've added a redirect page but didn't alter the text on the Eastern Shore RR article yet. I added a lengthy note on Talk:Eastern Shore Railroad with some decent source information from the National Park Service, etc. I recommend that a RR editor follow up at some point. Since the line runs on the Delmarva Peninsula, for example, but the name includes NY and PA, I assumed that the RR would not be listed with railroads of NY and PA. Anyway, greetings from Erie PA WP. -- Pat ( talk) 04:41, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Rapid transit might as well be considered a defunct WikiProject because it hasn't had a significant amount of activity for a while. Standards need to be developed for rapid transit articles, however it is difficult to do when the project is no longer active. I am a member of the project and would like to get it up and running again, and would like any suggestions anyone may have. 03:23, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I have made a style template for NJT but I'm having a problem with one thing. I don't know how to make the text white. Can someone please fix this? Murjax ( talk) 01:08, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
We have a bit of a muddle amongst the articles dealing with cable hauled railways. The current articles are:
There are also related articles like aerial tramway, gondola lift and aerial lift just to add to the confusion. I'd like to rationalize the articles about cable hauled railways so there are clear definitions of each and we can develop the articles appropriately. Here is my proposal, I'd love to hear from other interested editors:
The subject of cable hauled railways seems to be broad enough that an "umbrella" article on the general principle seems worthwhile. We can then have specialized sub-articles on the particular forms of railway. I propose cable hauled railway as the umbrella article, with the following sub articles:
Does this make sense? Is there a better way to arrange these articles? Are there other categories of cable hauled railway we should include? Thanks for your ideas, Gwernol 18:47, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
There are two such railways at Hastings - both called lifts - one now the steepest in the UK (although there were others steeper at one time). One of them is water-operated, in which tanks beneath the cars bring the uppermost car down against an empty one ascending. There doesn't seem to be much about this form of traction. Peter Shearan ( talk) 07:33, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
I have created a new Infobox railfanning location, but I am incompetent at making templates, so please improve it to death.-- MrFish Go Fish 19:00, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
An article that could be added to WikiProject Trains JGHowes talk - 12:24, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
After a concerted effort by a team of editors, we feel that Talyllyn Railway is now good enough to try for good article status. Editors who have not contributed to the creation of the article can help evaluate it at: Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations#Transport. Any thoughts on how to improve the article further, either through the formal GA review process or simply comments left on the article talk page, are much appreciated. Thanks, Gwernol 20:05, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I don't think i have made any significant contribution to this recently but this article has gone through a lot of changes substantially and so i feel it needs a reassessment. I don't think it ia A-Class anymore. Simply south ( talk) 13:48, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Is Engerth a Crampton locomotive, or a development of the Crampton locomotive? Mjroots ( talk) 13:48, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
I've started Daylight Speedliner and Washington - Chicago Express; also expanded Shenandoah and Cleveland Night Express. Will add images soon. All are tagged {{ TWP}} JGHowes talk - 21:02, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
It took a while to get through the drudgery of adding all the needed labels, but I'm now ready to launch the consolidated gauge template that I mentioned here a couple months ago. The template is currently at User:Slambo/Gauge. I propose a move to Template:Gauge (or Template:RailGauge may be better to disambiguate it further) and then to work on replacing the templates in Category:Rail transport gauge templates with this new template. Any objections? Slambo (Speak) 17:35, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
I've replaced around 3,000 instances of specific gauge templates with the new {{RailGauge}}. I'm going through and deleting the old templates that no longer have any links to them. Once that's done we should get a good idea what work remains to be done. Best, Gwernol 18:36, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Another editor has suggested that the Burlington Northern Railroad article be merged into the BNSF Railway article. Please join the discussion. Slambo (Speak) 11:19, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Keep an eye out for the image sizes on article infoboxes. If the image is way too big (like I saw today on Red River Valley and Western Railroad and Texas Mexican Railway), remove the "px" from the infobox image_size, logo_size and/or map_size parameter values as appropriate; the infobox already include the px automatically. It appears that a change was made in MediaWiki that prevents image size specifications like "200pxpx" from being interpreted as "200px". Slambo (Speak) 15:39, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
More details and further discussion is now at WP:ClickFix. Slambo (Speak) 20:46, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Infobox Station is fixed (as of about seven hours ago) so any further instances won't break. Mackensen (talk) 11:05, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
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Having drawn up new diagrams for lines which involve East Grinstead, I have encountered some disagreement with my ideas for the station layout there. A track passing from east to west passes above a track heading north to south, in such a way that the infrastructure of the high level station is directly above part of the low level station. The high level station has been closed since the 1960's and in fact no longer exists but the low level station is the terminus of a still open line. Limitations of currently available icons leave two paths available.
My personal take, the two station option, is that for practical purposes the stations are separate and their open / closed status can be shown, and the status of the two lines left more clear.
Others have taken the view that the stations are one, and that only the line from east to west and some redundant links have closed. So the stations should be merged as a split level interchange.
My reason for seeking additional views is that the current three opinions is too small; one more opinion would either leave me 3:1 against or 2:2 level, depending on which way it goes. So I have prepared these diagrams and will take the thoughts of others into account. Britmax ( talk) 17:28, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
In the top diagram, the lower one is correct except there was no direct link to go from south to east. To do that required a reversal into the high level station. Mjroots ( talk) 14:16, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
A map and diagram here [1] don't agree with you, I'm afraid. Anyway that's 4:2 agin me so the one station option goes into the diagrams ( and yes Ed I try to keep north at the top but the one that isn't is from the Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells line where the subject line runs East to West). Britmax ( talk) 16:08, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
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And so it does. Not only that but as the station building and goods shed are clearly from the original station the one station options look more like this, diagrammatically. Thanks for the catch. Before you ask the Oxted line option is lying in a darkened room with cucumber slices on its eyes. The drawing board beckons... Britmax ( talk) 21:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
As a reply to Olana North the diagrams are longer vertically for a line of any length and part of an article. So they don't dominate the article, east - west lines are kept the focus of the diagram by rotating them through ninety degrees.I prefer east to the top but not everyone goes that way. Britmax ( talk) 21:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Some help might come in handy over here at the assessment request. -- Hirohisat 初夏 02:23, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
When this stub is put into articles, it puts the article in the category "Southern United States railway station stubs". Now Maryland's postition as a "Southern" state is kind of controversial as Maryland is a mix of the Northeast and the South in cultural terms. However, the state is geographicly in the Northeast. I was thinking of changing that to either, "Northeastern United States railway station stubs" or "Mid-Atlantic United States railway station stubs". Give your opinions. Murjax ( talk) 19:32, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
I have started an article in my sandbox User:Mrg3105/sandbox for Military railways for what I think is a huge impact of rail technology on the military history for well over a century, and in the most important conflicts of modern period, but which is poorly documented. I am not an expert on the subject, and will scrape together sources here and there, but wanted to welcome one and all to edit this if they can until it can be placed into the Wikipedia. Thank you in advance-- mrg3105 ( comms) ♠♥♦♣ 06:59, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Currently about 80 articles that use the {{
Infobox rail}} calls it with "logo_filename = no image.png". It seems it was used to fix a problem with a large empty logo area in the old versions of this template. This is not needed anymore. Although I have left the code in the template to handle this call. Do not remove that code from this template for now, or we will instead get large empty spaces on those pages that call with "no image.png". I would like that people help out and change "logo_filename = no image.png" to be "logo_filename =" in the railway articles that call this template. When that has been done we can remove the handling code in this template. I have already fixed 29 articles but would like help with the remaining 80.
So if you are in the mood, do this: Go to
Image:No image.png and scroll down to the "File links" section. Look for railway articles there. Most of the rail articles there use {{
Infobox rail}}, {{
Infobox Railroad}} or {{
Infobox SG rail}}, if they do then change "logo_filename = no image.png" to be "logo_filename =".
Note! If the article is not using any of the boxes I just listed but instead are using a hardcoded infobox then do not remove the "no image.png". You can recognise that it is a hardcoded infobox by it using a wikitable instead and has style="something" stuff in the top.
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David Göthberg (
talk) 00:16, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Was the Burlington and Missouri Railroad Company referred to here the same as the Burlington and Missouri River Rail Road referred to in the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad article? • Freechild 'sup? 17:06, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Why hasn't there been any info added on the pre-Amtrak history of the Ann Rutledge line? ---- DanTD ( talk) 21:03, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
TGV is now under review, for anyone who wants to comment on the review. Noble Story ( talk) 02:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the right place to suggest this, but I'd like to see an article describing what all the various trackside signs and signals mean. Maybe such an article exists and I just haven't found it yet? -- RoySmith (talk) 15:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that there's an article on Rescue Muni, the San Francisco rail-passenger group. Would it be all right to add an article on other such groups? Or is someone already working on this, under the auspices of this project? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gmusser ( talk • contribs) 17:55, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
More often than not, I'm beginning to have serious doubts about the alleged opening dates of many of the Tri-Rail stations that are listed. TrainWeb, the Dynamic Depot Map website, and one Wikipedia user convinced me that Hollywood (Tri-Rail station) was not built in 1989, as previously indicated, and now I'm having more doubts about Fort Lauderdale (Tri-Rail station). I'm sure you know by now that I foudn out that West Palm Beach and Deerfield Beach stations were also historic landmarks, that had duplicate articles. Is anybody checking on any of these? ---- DanTD ( talk) 18:15, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to propose this Userbox replacement for {{ User Trains WikiProject}}. It projects a modern image of railroads as a 21st century mode of transport, yet is generic enough to be global, I think. JGHowes talk - 06:33, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
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An article I tagged with your project. APK yada yada 23:41, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I've been tinkering with a replacement for {{ Amtrak routes}} in my userspace. The new version ( User:Mackensen/Amtrak routes) uses {{ navbox}} and combines all the routes together, instead of showing just those regionally associated. Thoughts? Mackensen (talk) 15:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Done. Mackensen (talk) 15:21, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
List of UK railfan jargon and List of US railfan jargon have both been AfD'd. Mjroots ( talk) 05:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
The article British Rail Class 37, 37427 is up for deletion for notability reasons. See discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British Rail Class 37, 37427. -- Oakshade ( talk) 16:15, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
The article Saurashtra Janata Express is up for deletion for notability reasons. See discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saurashtra Janata Express. -- Eastmain ( talk) 04:11, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Talyllyn Railway, which I see in the main article of Portal:Trains at present, is currently undergoing peer review in order to bring up to FA standard. A huge amount of work has been done on this article, but it needs a push to get it over the final hurdle. Any help would be gratefully received. — Tivedshambo ( t/ c) 06:29, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
I just went through the links to Transportation minister, and a few new redirects to it to disambiguate as best as I could find. It seems to me that there should be quite a few more regions listed there as nearly every country has someone in an equivalent position (and those with states/provinces have even more subnational office holders). I've added a few as I found mention of them through the Whatlinkshere page, but I would welcome further input into the page format and content. Slambo (Speak) 18:29, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Another problem with an infobox, this time for Baltimore Penn Station. The routebox for MTA Maryland's Baltimore Light Rail Penn Station-Camden Yards line should have Camden Yards station as the destination, but instead has Penn Station itself as the destination. Can this be fixed? ---- DanTD ( talk) 01:18, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Greetings all,
There have been a number of edits to the 4-6-2 page by an unsigned editor who seems to believe that this page should list builder's details for every Pacific locomotive ever built.
My view is that this is unnecessary trivia, and seems to fit the criteria listed in Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, specifically WP:INDISCRIMINATE. I believe these edits have greatly diminished the article's readability and given the large number of pages that deal with specific classes of 4-6-2 locomotives and details such as when/by whom they were built, they are entirely out of place.
While I am sure the page as it was could have done with a lot of improvement, I think it is now becoming unreadable. The information is unreferenced, and the editor seems to have responded to my comments on the Talk:4-6-2 page by telling me I have no idea.
Any suggestions on how to approach this? I'm sorely tempted to simply revert the entire page to prior to the current set of edits, and I note that one other editor has already done this for the New Zealand section of the article.
Zzrbiker ( talk) 23:38, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
A new article I tagged with your project. APK yada yada 09:01, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Whilst doing a general cleanup of rail-related articles in the name of WP:UKT, I've come across Branford Steam Railroad. Large chunks of it appear to be valid, but at least 50% appears to be cut-and-pasted from this website. As I freely admit that my knowledge of rail transport on your side of the Atlantic is virtually nil, I'm probably not best placed to clean it up - can anyone have a stab at it, since, copyvios aside, it does seem to be a pretty good article. — iride scent 20:47, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Taking a page from the WP:SHIP folks, I've devised a componen version of {{ Infobox Station}}, with some documentation at {{ Infobox Station Example}}. This makes the template modular, and permits the additional of multiple "sections" (i.e. passengers). It also allows greater customization: see State/Lake (CTA), where a custom variant of {{ Infobox Station Header}} ({{ Infobox Station Header CTA}}), allows the old-style display. Thoughts and comments? Mackensen (talk) 23:51, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
No good for Greenport (LIRR station). Not only did {{ Infobox nrhp}} not blend in as well as it did for Sebring (Amtrak station), but the old Long Island Rail Road header no longer existed on the newer version. ---- DanTD ( talk) 03:28, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Looks Good —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zol87 ( talk • contribs) 23:21, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I was just wondering about consolidating the US Railroads rather than having a page load of projects to sift through why not just one? The UP is one such example being as this railroad, as well as others serve half the country, is it really necessary to have every state chime in a stake their ground? Should we just have one project, one category, North American Railroad and be done with it rather than a page load of categories and a page load of project banners. It doesn't seem practical to me having so many projects staking claim.
Your suggestion may be appropriate for a few large modern railroads, but the much larger number of small local railroads (many of them historical) might be more easily accessible under the present system. Thewellman ( talk) 08:18, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Another editor has nominated all of the subcategories of Category:Rail transport industry award recipients for deletion as overcategorization. Please visit the deletion discussion page and make your opinions known. Slambo (Speak) 15:51, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm trying to create an article on Beverly Depot station on that line, however I ran into a problem when entering the next station info in the Infobox. This station is the last station (going outbound) before the line splits into two lines going to Newburyport or Rockport resepctivly. Now I've done an article on a station with the same situation once before and I used basicly the same method with this one. When I previewed the article though, I noticed that instead of showing the two next stations, it only showed one. I'm still new here, so I can't tell weather or not this is a template issue or not. Here's my work, see if you can help me with this.
{{Infobox Station | name=Beverly Depot | image= | image_size= | image_caption= | address=12 Park St [[Beverly, MA]] 01915-4202 | coordinates= | line=[[Newburyport/Rockport Line]] | other= | platform= | tracks= | parking= | bicycle= | passengers= | pass_year= | pass_percent= | pass_system= | opened= | rebuilt= | ADA= | code= | owned=[[MBTA]] | zone= | services= {{s-start}} {{s-rail|title=MBTA}} {{s-line|system=MBTA|line=Newburyport|previous=Salem|next=Monserrat|next2=North Beverly|type2=Rockport|type3=Newburyport}} }} '''Beverly Depot''' is a passenger rail station on [[MBTA Commuter Rail|MBTA Commuter Rail's]] [[Newburyport/Rockport Line]].<ref>[http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/lines/stations/default.asp?stopId=19&lat=42.546907&lng=-70.885168] ''MBTA official website''</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == External links == * [http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/lines/stations/default.asp?stopId=19&lat=42.546907&lng=-70.885168 Swampscott station official website] * [http://www.mbta.com/schedules_and_maps/rail/lines/?route=NBRYROCK Schedule]
Murjax ( talk) 00:46, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
{{s-rail|title=MBTA}} {{s-line|system=MBTA|line=Newburyport|previous=Salem|next=Monserrat|type2=Rockport|rows1=2|rowsmid=2}} {{s-line|system=MBTA|line=Newburyport|next=North Beverly|type2=Newburyport|hide1=yes|hidemid=yes}}
Hope this helps. Mackensen (talk) 01:36, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
(why am i editing at 5?)
Should there be a child project on rail transport in the US? Simply south ( talk) 05:02, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
I recently nominated Category:Abandoned stations for renaming. A discussion about the most appropriate name for the category and about the scope of the category has arisen. Part of this is the question which term covers the status of these railway stations best: Disused? Defunct? Former? I would like to ask the members of this WikiProject for their take on this, at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 January 18#Category:Abandoned stations. A ecis Brievenbus 23:14, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Something has always troubled me about the MARC Routebox at Washington D.C.'s Union Station article. If all the other stations on the Brunswick Line are listed from west to east, with DC on the right, then the DC routebox should be listed the same way. The fact that they all run north of the Potomac River shouldn't make any difference. Come to think of it, I've got similar issues regarding Pennsylvania Station (New York City). I wonder if Yonkers (Metro-North station) and maybe Croton-Harmon (Metro-North station) shouldn't be on the right side of the routebox. ---- DanTD ( talk) 02:30, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Now about the VRE issue, that's not just L'Enfant Plaza (Washington Metro), there's something wrong with the templates on both lines that causes them to be sent to the Union Station (Washington Metro) page. I looked at the templates and even tried fixing it but I can't seem to find where the problem is on the template page itself. Murjax ( talk) 01:42, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
The Islington station on the map in the MBTA Franklin Line article is misspelled. I couldn't find where to fix it so if someone who knows where this is, please fix it. Thank you. Murjax ( talk) 03:40, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
This user was very active in train images and has left the project. Anyone who could write/replace his tagged images would be most appreciated. MBisanz talk 08:32, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Members of WP:TWP are invited to join in this discussion at WT:RAIL. Thanks, -- RFBailey ( talk) 03:48, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
I've just completed a significant re-write of The Ghan after working on the Indian Pacific earlier this week and realizing that The Ghan article needed some work. I've raised some of mu remaining questions on Talk:The_Ghan and would appreciate any input, suggestions, etc. Travellingcari ( talk) 21:46, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. Someone created a stub article on this class of NYC subway car. I've done some basic tidying etc. on the article, but as I did so, I noticed that the various templates used for the NYC rolling stock, and the St. Louis Car Company article which apparently made this car don't include this particular class. I'm not a train afficianado myself (ducks rapidly as used bogeys fly overhead...), so can I just leave this reminder here for someone more au-fait with the subject to have a quick review and see if anything needs amending ? Thanks. CultureDrone ( talk) 23:08, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. You may be familiar with the Philip Greenspun Illustration Project. $20,000 has been donated to pay for the creation of high quality diagrams for Wikipedia and its sister projects.
Requests are currently being taken at m:Philip Greenspun illustration project/Requests and input from members of this project would be very welcome. If you can think of any diagrams (not photos or maps) that would be useful then I encourage you to suggest them at this page. If there is any free content material that would assist in drawing the diagram then it would be great if you could list that, too.
If there are any related (or unrelated) WikiProjects you think might have some suggestions then please pass this request over. Thanks. -- Cherry blossom tree 16:59, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
I took a look at Westrail after SuggestBot left me a note. I'd love to work on it because it needs some serious help, but the vast majority of sources appear to be locked behind paid gates. Anyone have access to other sources of information? Travellingcari ( talk) 21:21, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
For those of you interested I started an IRC channel for the trains project. Its irc.freenode.net - #Wikipedia-Trains-en -- DP67 (talk/ contribs) 23:41, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Can anyone lend a hand at High-speed rail in Europe? We've brought together all the individual countries' information, but need expansion on rail links, such as the Eurostar, that tie Europe together. Much appreciated Grunners ( talk) 16:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
I have just found out that there is a shortcut, WP:RR, leading to your main page. It is listed neither in your shortcut box, nor in the shortcut directory. It is quite old; it was retargeted from the Three-revert rule on 30 August 2005.
I thought I should write about it here before actually listing it, in case you would prefer it deleted. Personally, I like it, and I find it very relevant and intuitive. Waltham, The Duke of 14:17, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
A new stub template for biographies of people associated with the rails has been proposed over at the Stub sorting Wikiproject. If you would care to comment on the proposal, please do. Caerwine Caer’s whines 22:46, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
City_Hall_(SEPTA_station) and 15th Street (SEPTA station) seem to have been written in complete ignorance of one another, implying that both stations serve both MFL and Broad street lines, and they don't link tot one another. I would fix it but I want to discuss first. -- Qu e ntin Smith 17:11, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
A new article recently appeared at Oregon Electric Railway Museum. It needs categorization, project tagging?, and some work. — EncMstr 17:19, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
I've opened a discussion on the status of the Wisconsin Central at Talk:Wisconsin Central Transportation--input would be much appreciated. Thanks, Mackensen (talk) 20:52, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
Tourist Standard Open End is on WP:AR1, I belive this could be an redirect to Tourist Standard Open but I am not quite sure. Taemyr ( talk) 13:58, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Some aspects of the International Limited article don't add up: see my comments here for details. -- RFBailey ( talk) 15:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
The news column on Portal:Trains hasn't been substantially updated in some time. It's not because there isn't news to include there, it's because I've found it very difficult since the new year to find time to make the necessary updates. So, I'm requesting the help of interested editors to fill in with news items. You don't even have to go search it out, since I've got several news items that I planned to add there.
Specifically (in addition to the two items that were already added by other editors):
Is there an editor here who can use these links and update the column and the archives with this information? I've been trying to keep the column limited to the six most recent news items (with everything put into the appropriate MONTH YEAR in rail transport archives), and writing a short paragraph to describe the event with links and footnotes as needed. The entries from before Dec 26 can be used as a model for the kinds of blurbs that I've been adding to the column. Thanks. Slambo (Speak) 21:44, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone object if i started moving all the stations to something like Royal Oak Vancover SkyTrain station? I am not meaning merging the number of articles into that one, i am meaning just standardising\disambiguating the stations. Simply south ( talk) 12:33, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
I've tried to convert a few more railroad station infoboxes into the current standard created by Mackensen, and many of these combine National Register of Historic Places infoboxes. However some as you'll find in the archives there are some I've had trouble converting, including Strafford (SEPTA station), and Farmingdale (LIRR station). What I often find is that the railroad-NRHP combo-boxes don't allow services and routeboxes. I actually had to take a routebox out of one in order to convert it to the new version. This would be a big problem for stations like Old Greenwich (Metro-North station) and Cos Cob (Metro-North station). ---- DanTD ( talk) 18:12, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm not a member of this Wikiproject so I don't know if films related to trains, especially ones that include extensive footage of train-related subject matter, are applicable to this project, but for anyone interested I've added Buster Keaton's classic short film The Railrodder to the project. If films are not considered appropriate for the project, feel free to remove the banner. 23skidoo ( talk) 21:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
I've created an article on the Chemin de Fer de Côtes du Nord, which is a FA on the French Wikipedia. I'd like to get this article to GA standard at least, if not FA. I've asked for a peer review (not sure if I should have!) and would like some help with the GA nomination process. Mjroots ( talk) 22:53, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
I came across the NYP&N RR today. It seems to be the original line of the current Eastern Shore Railroad. There's an oblique mention of the RR on the Cape Charles, Virgnia page, but no mention of it in any other articles. I've added a redirect page but didn't alter the text on the Eastern Shore RR article yet. I added a lengthy note on Talk:Eastern Shore Railroad with some decent source information from the National Park Service, etc. I recommend that a RR editor follow up at some point. Since the line runs on the Delmarva Peninsula, for example, but the name includes NY and PA, I assumed that the RR would not be listed with railroads of NY and PA. Anyway, greetings from Erie PA WP. -- Pat ( talk) 04:41, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
WikiProject Rapid transit might as well be considered a defunct WikiProject because it hasn't had a significant amount of activity for a while. Standards need to be developed for rapid transit articles, however it is difficult to do when the project is no longer active. I am a member of the project and would like to get it up and running again, and would like any suggestions anyone may have. 03:23, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I have made a style template for NJT but I'm having a problem with one thing. I don't know how to make the text white. Can someone please fix this? Murjax ( talk) 01:08, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
We have a bit of a muddle amongst the articles dealing with cable hauled railways. The current articles are:
There are also related articles like aerial tramway, gondola lift and aerial lift just to add to the confusion. I'd like to rationalize the articles about cable hauled railways so there are clear definitions of each and we can develop the articles appropriately. Here is my proposal, I'd love to hear from other interested editors:
The subject of cable hauled railways seems to be broad enough that an "umbrella" article on the general principle seems worthwhile. We can then have specialized sub-articles on the particular forms of railway. I propose cable hauled railway as the umbrella article, with the following sub articles:
Does this make sense? Is there a better way to arrange these articles? Are there other categories of cable hauled railway we should include? Thanks for your ideas, Gwernol 18:47, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
There are two such railways at Hastings - both called lifts - one now the steepest in the UK (although there were others steeper at one time). One of them is water-operated, in which tanks beneath the cars bring the uppermost car down against an empty one ascending. There doesn't seem to be much about this form of traction. Peter Shearan ( talk) 07:33, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
I have created a new Infobox railfanning location, but I am incompetent at making templates, so please improve it to death.-- MrFish Go Fish 19:00, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
An article that could be added to WikiProject Trains JGHowes talk - 12:24, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
After a concerted effort by a team of editors, we feel that Talyllyn Railway is now good enough to try for good article status. Editors who have not contributed to the creation of the article can help evaluate it at: Wikipedia:Good_article_nominations#Transport. Any thoughts on how to improve the article further, either through the formal GA review process or simply comments left on the article talk page, are much appreciated. Thanks, Gwernol 20:05, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I don't think i have made any significant contribution to this recently but this article has gone through a lot of changes substantially and so i feel it needs a reassessment. I don't think it ia A-Class anymore. Simply south ( talk) 13:48, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Is Engerth a Crampton locomotive, or a development of the Crampton locomotive? Mjroots ( talk) 13:48, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
I've started Daylight Speedliner and Washington - Chicago Express; also expanded Shenandoah and Cleveland Night Express. Will add images soon. All are tagged {{ TWP}} JGHowes talk - 21:02, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
It took a while to get through the drudgery of adding all the needed labels, but I'm now ready to launch the consolidated gauge template that I mentioned here a couple months ago. The template is currently at User:Slambo/Gauge. I propose a move to Template:Gauge (or Template:RailGauge may be better to disambiguate it further) and then to work on replacing the templates in Category:Rail transport gauge templates with this new template. Any objections? Slambo (Speak) 17:35, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
I've replaced around 3,000 instances of specific gauge templates with the new {{RailGauge}}. I'm going through and deleting the old templates that no longer have any links to them. Once that's done we should get a good idea what work remains to be done. Best, Gwernol 18:36, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Another editor has suggested that the Burlington Northern Railroad article be merged into the BNSF Railway article. Please join the discussion. Slambo (Speak) 11:19, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Keep an eye out for the image sizes on article infoboxes. If the image is way too big (like I saw today on Red River Valley and Western Railroad and Texas Mexican Railway), remove the "px" from the infobox image_size, logo_size and/or map_size parameter values as appropriate; the infobox already include the px automatically. It appears that a change was made in MediaWiki that prevents image size specifications like "200pxpx" from being interpreted as "200px". Slambo (Speak) 15:39, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
More details and further discussion is now at WP:ClickFix. Slambo (Speak) 20:46, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Infobox Station is fixed (as of about seven hours ago) so any further instances won't break. Mackensen (talk) 11:05, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
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Having drawn up new diagrams for lines which involve East Grinstead, I have encountered some disagreement with my ideas for the station layout there. A track passing from east to west passes above a track heading north to south, in such a way that the infrastructure of the high level station is directly above part of the low level station. The high level station has been closed since the 1960's and in fact no longer exists but the low level station is the terminus of a still open line. Limitations of currently available icons leave two paths available.
My personal take, the two station option, is that for practical purposes the stations are separate and their open / closed status can be shown, and the status of the two lines left more clear.
Others have taken the view that the stations are one, and that only the line from east to west and some redundant links have closed. So the stations should be merged as a split level interchange.
My reason for seeking additional views is that the current three opinions is too small; one more opinion would either leave me 3:1 against or 2:2 level, depending on which way it goes. So I have prepared these diagrams and will take the thoughts of others into account. Britmax ( talk) 17:28, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
In the top diagram, the lower one is correct except there was no direct link to go from south to east. To do that required a reversal into the high level station. Mjroots ( talk) 14:16, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
A map and diagram here [1] don't agree with you, I'm afraid. Anyway that's 4:2 agin me so the one station option goes into the diagrams ( and yes Ed I try to keep north at the top but the one that isn't is from the Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells line where the subject line runs East to West). Britmax ( talk) 16:08, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
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And so it does. Not only that but as the station building and goods shed are clearly from the original station the one station options look more like this, diagrammatically. Thanks for the catch. Before you ask the Oxted line option is lying in a darkened room with cucumber slices on its eyes. The drawing board beckons... Britmax ( talk) 21:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
As a reply to Olana North the diagrams are longer vertically for a line of any length and part of an article. So they don't dominate the article, east - west lines are kept the focus of the diagram by rotating them through ninety degrees.I prefer east to the top but not everyone goes that way. Britmax ( talk) 21:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Some help might come in handy over here at the assessment request. -- Hirohisat 初夏 02:23, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
When this stub is put into articles, it puts the article in the category "Southern United States railway station stubs". Now Maryland's postition as a "Southern" state is kind of controversial as Maryland is a mix of the Northeast and the South in cultural terms. However, the state is geographicly in the Northeast. I was thinking of changing that to either, "Northeastern United States railway station stubs" or "Mid-Atlantic United States railway station stubs". Give your opinions. Murjax ( talk) 19:32, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
I have started an article in my sandbox User:Mrg3105/sandbox for Military railways for what I think is a huge impact of rail technology on the military history for well over a century, and in the most important conflicts of modern period, but which is poorly documented. I am not an expert on the subject, and will scrape together sources here and there, but wanted to welcome one and all to edit this if they can until it can be placed into the Wikipedia. Thank you in advance-- mrg3105 ( comms) ♠♥♦♣ 06:59, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
Currently about 80 articles that use the {{
Infobox rail}} calls it with "logo_filename = no image.png". It seems it was used to fix a problem with a large empty logo area in the old versions of this template. This is not needed anymore. Although I have left the code in the template to handle this call. Do not remove that code from this template for now, or we will instead get large empty spaces on those pages that call with "no image.png". I would like that people help out and change "logo_filename = no image.png" to be "logo_filename =" in the railway articles that call this template. When that has been done we can remove the handling code in this template. I have already fixed 29 articles but would like help with the remaining 80.
So if you are in the mood, do this: Go to
Image:No image.png and scroll down to the "File links" section. Look for railway articles there. Most of the rail articles there use {{
Infobox rail}}, {{
Infobox Railroad}} or {{
Infobox SG rail}}, if they do then change "logo_filename = no image.png" to be "logo_filename =".
Note! If the article is not using any of the boxes I just listed but instead are using a hardcoded infobox then do not remove the "no image.png". You can recognise that it is a hardcoded infobox by it using a wikitable instead and has style="something" stuff in the top.
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David Göthberg (
talk) 00:16, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
Was the Burlington and Missouri Railroad Company referred to here the same as the Burlington and Missouri River Rail Road referred to in the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad article? • Freechild 'sup? 17:06, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Why hasn't there been any info added on the pre-Amtrak history of the Ann Rutledge line? ---- DanTD ( talk) 21:03, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
TGV is now under review, for anyone who wants to comment on the review. Noble Story ( talk) 02:30, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is the right place to suggest this, but I'd like to see an article describing what all the various trackside signs and signals mean. Maybe such an article exists and I just haven't found it yet? -- RoySmith (talk) 15:52, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
I noticed that there's an article on Rescue Muni, the San Francisco rail-passenger group. Would it be all right to add an article on other such groups? Or is someone already working on this, under the auspices of this project? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gmusser ( talk • contribs) 17:55, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
More often than not, I'm beginning to have serious doubts about the alleged opening dates of many of the Tri-Rail stations that are listed. TrainWeb, the Dynamic Depot Map website, and one Wikipedia user convinced me that Hollywood (Tri-Rail station) was not built in 1989, as previously indicated, and now I'm having more doubts about Fort Lauderdale (Tri-Rail station). I'm sure you know by now that I foudn out that West Palm Beach and Deerfield Beach stations were also historic landmarks, that had duplicate articles. Is anybody checking on any of these? ---- DanTD ( talk) 18:15, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to propose this Userbox replacement for {{ User Trains WikiProject}}. It projects a modern image of railroads as a 21st century mode of transport, yet is generic enough to be global, I think. JGHowes talk - 06:33, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
This user is a member of the Trains WikiProject |
An article I tagged with your project. APK yada yada 23:41, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I've been tinkering with a replacement for {{ Amtrak routes}} in my userspace. The new version ( User:Mackensen/Amtrak routes) uses {{ navbox}} and combines all the routes together, instead of showing just those regionally associated. Thoughts? Mackensen (talk) 15:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Done. Mackensen (talk) 15:21, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
List of UK railfan jargon and List of US railfan jargon have both been AfD'd. Mjroots ( talk) 05:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
The article British Rail Class 37, 37427 is up for deletion for notability reasons. See discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/British Rail Class 37, 37427. -- Oakshade ( talk) 16:15, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
The article Saurashtra Janata Express is up for deletion for notability reasons. See discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saurashtra Janata Express. -- Eastmain ( talk) 04:11, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Talyllyn Railway, which I see in the main article of Portal:Trains at present, is currently undergoing peer review in order to bring up to FA standard. A huge amount of work has been done on this article, but it needs a push to get it over the final hurdle. Any help would be gratefully received. — Tivedshambo ( t/ c) 06:29, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
I just went through the links to Transportation minister, and a few new redirects to it to disambiguate as best as I could find. It seems to me that there should be quite a few more regions listed there as nearly every country has someone in an equivalent position (and those with states/provinces have even more subnational office holders). I've added a few as I found mention of them through the Whatlinkshere page, but I would welcome further input into the page format and content. Slambo (Speak) 18:29, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
Another problem with an infobox, this time for Baltimore Penn Station. The routebox for MTA Maryland's Baltimore Light Rail Penn Station-Camden Yards line should have Camden Yards station as the destination, but instead has Penn Station itself as the destination. Can this be fixed? ---- DanTD ( talk) 01:18, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Greetings all,
There have been a number of edits to the 4-6-2 page by an unsigned editor who seems to believe that this page should list builder's details for every Pacific locomotive ever built.
My view is that this is unnecessary trivia, and seems to fit the criteria listed in Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, specifically WP:INDISCRIMINATE. I believe these edits have greatly diminished the article's readability and given the large number of pages that deal with specific classes of 4-6-2 locomotives and details such as when/by whom they were built, they are entirely out of place.
While I am sure the page as it was could have done with a lot of improvement, I think it is now becoming unreadable. The information is unreferenced, and the editor seems to have responded to my comments on the Talk:4-6-2 page by telling me I have no idea.
Any suggestions on how to approach this? I'm sorely tempted to simply revert the entire page to prior to the current set of edits, and I note that one other editor has already done this for the New Zealand section of the article.
Zzrbiker ( talk) 23:38, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
A new article I tagged with your project. APK yada yada 09:01, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Whilst doing a general cleanup of rail-related articles in the name of WP:UKT, I've come across Branford Steam Railroad. Large chunks of it appear to be valid, but at least 50% appears to be cut-and-pasted from this website. As I freely admit that my knowledge of rail transport on your side of the Atlantic is virtually nil, I'm probably not best placed to clean it up - can anyone have a stab at it, since, copyvios aside, it does seem to be a pretty good article. — iride scent 20:47, 4 May 2008 (UTC)