...that eight of the SNCFClass BB 22200electric locomotives were upgraded to 5,600 kilowatts (7,500 hp) output, allowing for 200 km/h (124 mph) operation and the ability to run on TGV lines?
Henschel locomotive preserved in São Paulo, Brazil
...that German manufacturer Henschel & Son founded operations in Kassel in 1810 and even today, as part of Bombadier, the Kassel facility still exists and is one of the world's largest manufacturers of locomotives?
Union Pacific Railroad class MT-1 4-8-2 steam locomotive
...that steam locomotives of the 4-8-2wheel arrangement were nicknamed 'Mountains' in reference to their use and ability in powering trains over mountainous terrain, an example of which would be the Bulgarian State Railways use of the type to haul heavy passenger trains over Bulgarian main lines with gradients up to 28‰ (1 in 35.7)?
Preserved locomotive equipped with Bagnall Price valve gear
Frontage of former Saint Aubin terminus building on the Jersey Railway
...that the Jersey Railway was built to three different gauges during its life, originally opening as a 4 ft 8+1⁄2in (1,435 mm) standard gauge system in 1870, then closing and reopening regauagedto3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) in 1884, before closing again in 1937 and later being rebuilt during World War IIto1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8in) gauge by the occupying German army to allow transport of materials for fortifying the island?
Passenger train at the station Psyrtskha (New Athos)
...that the Istanbul Sirkeci railway station terminal building in Turkey is one of the most famous examples of European Orientalism architecture, and has influenced the designs of other architects?
A Cyprus Government Railway ticket
...that during the Enosis riots in October 1931, 120 yards (110 m) of the Cyprus Government Railway tracks were torn up, since the railway was regarded a symbol of British colonial rule?
Preserved Indonesian steam locomotive
...that the history of rail transport in Indonesia includes deliveries of some notable "last" steam locomotives, including the last Mallet locomotive built for a non-tourist railway, and Hunslet No. 3902, built in 1971, the last steam locomotive built in Great Britain for regular service?
ACTS 1255 (NS 1200 Class) at Amersfoort station in 2007
Type 64 electric railcar in 1939 at Granvin, terminus of the Hardanger Line
...that when it was opened on March 30, 1935, the now-closed Hardanger Line between Voss and GranvininNorway was the first railway in the country to open with electric traction?
Vosslog G 2000 BB with asymmetric drivers cab in Moers
...that when unveiled at Innotrans in 2000, the Vossloh G2000 BBdiesel-electric locomotive featured an asymmetric cab with a walkway, which in conjunction with remote control operation allowed shunting to be done from an external viewpoint while still riding on the locomotive?
...that the BB 8500 class electric locomotives of the SNCF (French National Railway) acquired the nickname Danseuses (dancers) due to their tendency to sway from side to side at speed?
4002 leads a train through Hawkesbury River station
...that Vossloh AG, a German rail infrastructure and locomotive manufacturer with sales of €1.2 billion in 2007, commenced operations in the 1880s when Eduard Vossloh began the manufacture of spring washers for rail fasteners in the Vossloh family's blacksmith shop?
...that like the SD90MAC built by rival EMD, the GE AC6000CW suffered reliability problems with its 6,000 hp (4.5 MW) engine, which caused GE to sell more than 100 of them with 4,400 hp (3.3 MW) engines that were never upgraded?
A tram built by Ciegelski in operation in 2007
...that in 1956 a strike which began at H. Cegielski - Poznań S.A., a Polishlocomotive and tram manufacturing company then known as Joseph Stalin Metal Works in Poznań, and several other major factories led to the first of massive protests known as the Poznań 1956 protests against the communist government?
