Portal:Trains/Did you know/January 2020
January 2020[edit]
- ...that the controversy over operating trams in Trondheim, Norway, started after the 1956 Dalsenget fire and continued through the 1990 takeover by AS Gråkallbanen, costing two mayors their jobs?
- ...that Trinity Railway Express began operations with trains leased from Amtrak and the Connecticut Department of Transportation until the Budd Rail Diesel Cars they had purchased for the service were delivered?
- ...that after being responsible for building and running several Maryland-area railroads in the 1850s, Isaac R. Trimble led a contingent of Maryland state militia to burn the railroad bridges around Baltimore at the onset of the American Civil War?
- ...that to counter criticism of his high-pressure boiler designs following an explosion in 1802, Richard Trevithick incorporated safety valves and fusible plugs into future designs?
- ...that since the San Mateo Creek Bridge, commonly known as Trestles Bridge, in northern San Diego County, California, is the namesake of the nearby famed Trestles surfing site, the new concrete supports are etched with letters spelling "Trestles"?
- ...that in 1993, the U.S. Federal Transit Administration selected Tren Urbano in Puerto Rico as a Turnkey Demonstration Project under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991?
- ...that since Trawsfynydd Camp railway station served only the Trawsfynydd Artillery range, and all traffic was by booked special trains exclusively for military personnel, the station had no need of ticket offices or waiting rooms?
- ...that the location of Travel Town Museum in California was formerly used as a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II?
- ...that the Wall Street Journal called Transpo '72 "the biggest show the government has put on since World War II"?
- ...that TransPennine Express trains run between York, Leeds and Manchester Airport at least every three hours every night of the week?
- ...that the Melbourne, Moscow and Saint Petersburg tram and light rail transit systems are currently considered to be the three largest in the world?
- ...that the name Tram 2000 derives from the numbering series applied to these trams, but also reflects the fleet modernisation their introduction heralded in 1976?
- ...that the history of train whistles dates to 1832, when the Leicester and Swannington Railway commissioned a local musical instrument builder to provide a steam-powered whistle, then known as a "steam trumpet"?
- ...that unlike most rail trails, Train Track Park in Jerusalem, Israel, incorporates the original Jaffa–Jerusalem railway tracks installed in 1892?
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- ...that Eurostar and Heathrow Express are not considered train operating companies under the collective National Rail brand?
- ...that Ralph Budd was one of the first people to see the sketches of the Train of Tomorrow's Astra-Dome cars, and was inspired by them to create the first modern dome car for the Burlington in 1945, two years before the Train of Tomorrow was unveiled?
- ...that in the 2004 Guinness World Records, Train Mountain is recognized as the "Longest Miniature Hobby Railroad" with 69,900 feet (13.24 mi; 21.3 km) of 7+1⁄2 in (190.5 mm) gauge mainline track and 133,250 feet (25.237 mi; 40.61 km) of total track?
- ...that each of the three track geometry cars operated by the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration travels approximately 30,000 miles (48,280 km) and finds approximately 10,000 defects every year, which are then fixed by the railroads?