Portal:Trains/Did you know/July 2018

July 2018

 * ...that Mount Hope station was built in the 1880s with a station building on each side of the tracks?


 * ...that when the Moscow Metro opened in 1935, advertising posters lauded it as the busiest and fastest rapid transit system in the world?


 * ...that the electrified section of NJ Transit's Morristown Line east of Dover Station in New Jersey was originally electrified in 1930 at 3 kV DC, but was updated in 1984 to 25 kV, 60 Hz AC?


 * ...that soon after taking his position as president of the Erie Railroad in 1857, Charles Moran discontinued the practice of giving free passes to cattle and freight drovers riding Erie trains?


 * ...that in order to motivate the Caledonian Railway to reduce the line toll charged to the Montrose and Bervie Railway to access Montrose station, the latter company established a station just on its side of the junction, and terminated its trains there?


 * ...that gauge SBB-CFF-FFS,  gauge MOB and  gauge MVR trains all call at Montreux railway station, making the station one of only a few in the world to serve trains of three different track gauges?


 * ...that the locomotive driver in the 1895 Montparnasse derailment was fined 50 francs for approaching the station too fast and one of the guards was fined 25 francs as he had been preoccupied with paperwork and failed to apply the handbrake?


 * ...that the Monticello Railway Museum was founded in 1966 as "SPUR, Inc" (Society for the Perpetuation of Unretired Railfans, Inc) to encourage the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad to continue operating its steam-powered railfan excurions?


 * ...that plans for connecting the New York and Greenwood Lake Railroad (later known as the Boonton Line) and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Montclair Branch dated back to 1929, but NJ Transit's Montclair-Boonton Line didn't open until 2002?


 * ...that rubber-tired monorails are typically designed to cope with a 6% grade?


 * ...that Monarch is the last industrial narrow gauge locomotive to be built for commercial use in the United Kingdom?


 * ...that Twin Cities and Western Railroad purchased the Dan Patch Line Bridge on the Canadian Pacific Railway's MN&S Spur in Minnesota to protect what they feel may become a valuable shipping route in the future?


 * ...that in some instances, mixed trains, which carried both freight and passengers, would not be run if there was no freight to be hauled regardless of passenger demand?


 * ...that the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad was commonly known as the Soo Line since it started regular operations in 1884?


 * ...that Milwaukee Road's class EP-3 electric locomotives were built because the United States Railroad Administration dictated that the railroad's 1917 order for electrical equipment be split between GE and Westinghouse?


 * ...that since its restoration, Milwaukee Road 4-8-4 steam locomotive number 261 has logged more than 25,000 mi under its own power?


 * ...that the single-track branch of London Underground's Northern line to Mill Hill East was built as a double track formation in the 1860s but the second track was never laid?


 * ...that in one test of milk car operations, milk was shipped from Wisconsin to Florida, and the temperature rose only a single degree (1 F-change) during a trip lasting 101 hours?


 * ...that Milford Haven railway station is the westernmost railway station in Wales, but not in Great Britain?


 * ...that the earliest section to open of the current Midland Main Line was opened by the Midland Counties Railway between Nottingham and Derby on 4 June 1839?


 * ...that three former Midland Great Western Railway stations in Ireland are now hotels, two of which are called the "Station House Hotel" but are unconnected by ownership?


 * ...that the Middleton Railway, which was founded in 1758 to serve nearby collieries and is now a heritage railway, is the world's oldest continuously working public railway?


 * ...that since the privatisation of British Rail, passenger journeys on the Mid-Cheshire line have massively increased to over 1.7 million per year?


 * ...that the Independent Subway System in New York operated solely with one family of subway cars, commonly referred to as the Arnines?


 * ...that Metropolitan Railroad's 1895 installation of an underground sliding shoe electrification system on the north-south line in Washington, D.C., was the first successful installation of such a system in the Western Hemisphere? (Note: Disputed based on the definition of Western Hemisphere; see Talk:Metropolitan Railroad)


 * ...that the 25¢ fare to ride the Metromover in Miami, Florida, was lifted partly because it was realized that the cost of collecting the fare nearly exceeded the revenue generated from the fare?


 * ...that Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line was initially a combination of trackage from the New York and Harlem Railroad and the Boston and Albany Railroad, which date back as far as 1832?