Portal:Trains/Did you know/February 2020

February 2020

 * ...that Salt Lake City's successful bid to host the 2002 Winter Olympics gave the TRAX light rail project, managed by the Utah Transit Authority, some priority over transit projects in other cities competing for federal funds?


 * ...that the front two driving axles on the United States Army Transportation Corps S160 Class 2-8-0 steam locomotives were sprung independently from the rear two driving axles to allow for running on poor quality track?


 * ...that Ma Liu Shui Station, now known as University station on the MTR system, was built because it would be at a convenient location for a passing loop along the single-track line between Tai Po and Sha Tin?


 * ...that the Los Angeles Times argued in editorials against a 1926 ballot measure that Union Station would "forever do away with Chinatown and its environs"?


 * ...that at its height in the 1920s, Union Station in Owensboro, Kentucky, daily served eighteen passenger trains?


 * ...that following the discontinuance of the Montrealer in 1987, Amtrak did not serve Union Station in Northampton, Massachusetts, until 2014?


 * ...that the success of Union Station in Meridian, Mississippi, encouraged more than $8 million in private investment in the Depot District within the first few years since it was rebuilt in 1997?


 * ...that in addition to steam locomotives 844, 3985, and newly restored 4014, the Union Pacific Heritage Fleet also includes locomotives painted to honor the United States Armed Forces, the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, and the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization?


 * ...that the installation of a Ramsey car-transfer apparatus at Phoenicia, New York, reduced interchange time between the Ulster and Delaware Railroad and the Stony Clove and Catskill Mountain Railroad to about eight minutes?


 * ...that when Ulm Hauptbahnhof was rebuilt after World War II, Carl Ebner, the first chairman of the Tourist Office of Ulm/Neu-Ulm, called the new structure "the biggest train wreck of Ulm"?


 * ...that Ukrainian Railways '  'South-Western Railway' actually operates the north-central part of Ukraine's rail network, while the 'Southern Railway' actually operates in the east of the country?


 * ...that with a maximum gradient of 7.9%, the Uetliberg railway line in Switzerland is the steepest standard gauge adhesion railway in Europe?


 * ...that the name of the Tze-chiang express train service operated by the Taiwan Railways Administration was derived from a phrase in an address that Chiang Kai-shek delivered in 1971?


 * ...that after its opening in 1835, services on the first section of what has become the Tyne Valley line were suspended for a few months when a local landowner objected to the use of locomotives?


 * ...that the original Twyford railway station served as the terminus for Great Western Railway in 1839 and 1840 until the completion of Sonning Cutting?


 * ...that Milwaukee Road's Class A steam locomotives pulled the Twin Cities Hiawatha trains between Chicago and the Twin Cities at sustained speeds more than 100 mph in the 1930s?


 * ...that after Amtrak discontinued the Northeast Corridor Twilight Shoreliner service, a southbound connection to a Newport News-bound Regional was available at Washington, D.C., but northbound trips required a three-hour layover?


 * ...that of the 5,538 km of new railway lines included in Turkish State Railways '  1948 expansion plan, only 96 km were actually built?


 * ...that in 1906, the workers building the Tulip Viaduct in Indiana, at the time the longest railroad trestle in the United States, were paid up to 30 cents per hour?


 * ...that the competition for the fastest time to travel to all London Underground stations, known as the Tube Challenge, has been tracked as a Guinness World Record since 1960?


 * ...that the unusual combination of and 260 cm wide wagons made it difficult to sell the Class 8 trams that remain in service on the Trondheim Tramway?


 * ...that the site of Tsim Sha Tsui station's Exit A1 was once the vehicular entrance to Kowloon Park?


 * ...that a title dispute regarding the land under the Troy Transit Center in Michigan delayed the station's opening for a year?