Portal:Trains/Did you know/September 2017

September 2017

 * ...that all E.404 0xx motorcars of the older Ferrovie dello Stato ETR 500 trainsets have been refurbished and transformed into locomotives of the type E.414, to haul EuroStarCity trains on selected routes?


 * ...that Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane's Class 290 of 0-6-0 steam locomotives introduced in 1899 was the last and most successful 0-6-0 Italian locomotive?


 * ...that when Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Baltimore Belt Line was electrified power was supplied through a unique system in which a pickup shoe rode in a channel above and to one side of the track?


 * ...that Freightliner, the largest intermodal freight transport operator in the United Kingdom, became a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming in 2015?


 * ...that the Freight Route Utilisation Strategy published by Network Rail in March 2007 is one of only two Route Utilisation Strategy documents which have the perspective of the United Kingdom rail network as whole?


 * ...that due to the location of Freiburg Hauptbahnhof when it opened in 1845 outside the city of Freiburg im Breisgau, the city implemented a zoning plan called Hinterm Bahnhof ("behind the station"), leading to the development of the current Stühlinger quarter?


 * ...that in 1974 a southbound Franklin Avenue Shuttle train derailed on a crossover and smashed the same place where BRT car 100 had hit in the Malbone Street Wreck in 1918?


 * ...that the Framingham/Worcester Line in Boston, Massachusetts, was one of the first commuter rail lines, with daily commuter-oriented service to West Newton beginning in 1834?


 * ...that the Foxton Branch in New Zealand was built as wooden-railed tramway and was operated using the first New Zealand-built locomotive?


 * ...that until the Fourteenth Street Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky, was built in the late 1860s, there were no bridges across the Ohio River at Cincinnati or any place west, including Louisville?


 * ...that beginning in June 1965, the 714th Transportation Battalion (Railway Operating) (Steam & Diesel Electric), which operated and maintained the Fort Eustis Military Railroad, was the only active duty railway unit in the U.S. Army?


 * ...that the heritage streetcar service in Fort Collins, Colorado, developed from a 1977 proposal to give the Fort Collins Municipal Railway 1919-built streetcar 21 a cosmetic restoration?


 * ...that Forest Hill railway station was the northern terminus for an experimental atmospheric railway to West Croydon in 1844?


 * ...that a pair of dual gauge tracks forming the mainly freight-only South Kensington-West Footscray line pass underneath Footscray railway station in Victoria, Australia?


 * ...that Fairbanks-Morse touted its H-24-66 diesel-electric locomotive as "...the most useful locomotive ever built..." upon its introduction in 1953?


 * ...that when the Flying Yankee train was introduced on the Boston and Maine Railroad and Maine Central Railroad systems in 1935, its schedule had it running a 750 mi circuit six days a week?


 * ...that London and North Eastern Railway introduced corridor tenders for the Flying Scotsman in 1928 to allow non-stop service by enabling a replacement driver and fireman to take over halfway without stopping the train?


 * ...that the Flushing and North Side Railroad was built partly because Flushing residents felt they had been tricked into building the Flushing and Woodside Railroad instead?


 * ...that Bombardier's Flexity 2 tram has cells to store energy temporarily after braking?


 * ...that James Fisk, who controlled the Erie Railroad, had a covered passage built linking the back doors of the railroad's headquarters and the apartment building where he rented an apartment for his mistress, Josie Mansfield?


 * ...that the densest part of First ScotRail's network was the suburban network around Glasgow, with 183 stations, the second-largest suburban rail network in the UK, after London?


 * ...that the Fillmore and Western Railway has been used in more than 400 movie, TV and commercial shots?