Portal:Trains/Did you know/May 2021

May 2021

 * ...that the Chemins de Fer du Nord advanced ₣3.8 million, an average of ₣43,000 per kikometre, to build the Chemins de fer d'Aire à Fruges et de Rimeux-Gournay à Berck in 1890?


 * ...that the former Michigan Central Railroad Chelsea station is the only known Michigan example designed by the well known Detroit architectural firm of Mason and Rice?


 * ...that the British mechanical draughtsman Charles Cheffins, who drew one of the earliest drawings of Novelty, was an expert witness in the patent infringement lawsuit about that locomotive?


 * ...that next to the modern Chappaqua station is a building opened by the New York Central Railroad in 1902 and still in use as a waiting area that was built on land donated by the daughter of Horace Greeley?


 * ...that the steam locomotive named Aid was purchased to alleviate the need for ferrying Blackie between the banks of the Kowie River?