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Turbojet train. SVL turbojet railcar. A turbojet train is a train powered by turbojet engines. Like a jet aircraft, but unlike a gas turbine locomotive, the train is propelled by the jet thrust of the engines, rather than by its wheels. Only a handful of jet-powered trains have been built, for experimental research in high-speed rail.
Compressed air [1] (driving a propeller) UIC classification. 2. Track gauge. 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in) standard gauge. The Schienenzeppelin (German: [ˈʃiːnənˌtsɛpəliːn]) or rail zeppelin was an experimental railcar which resembled a Zeppelin airship in appearance. It was designed and developed by the German aircraft engineer Franz ...
Caboose. A Burlington Northern extended-vision caboose at the end of a train in 1993. An ex- Santa Fe Railway caboose used by BNSF Railway as a switching platform. A caboose is a crewed North American railroad car coupled at the end of a freight train. Cabooses provide shelter for crew at the end of a train, who were formerly required in ...
Steam locomotive components. Main components found on a typical steam locomotive include: enlarge. The diagram, which is not to scale, is a composite of various designs in the late steam era. Some components shown are not the same as, or are not present, on some locomotives – for example, on smaller or articulated types.
1810s–1830s. 1800–1825 Various inventors and entrepreneurs make suggestions about building model railways in the United States. Around Coalbrookdale in the United Kingdom, mining railways become increasingly common. An early steam locomotive is given a test run in 1804, but is then wrecked carelessly.
Rack railway. The Pilatus Railway is the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%. A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails. The trains are fitted with one or more ...
An estimate of total steam locomotive production in the United States is about 175,000 engines, including nearly 70,000 by Baldwin. Altoona Machine Shops (PRR) American Locomotive Company (ALCO) Amoskeag Locomotive Works. Appomattox Locomotive Works – operated by Uriah Wells. Atlas Car & Manufacturing Company.
1895 – First mainline electrification on a four-mile stretch (Baltimore Belt Line) of the Baltimore & Ohio. 1898 – The first railway line in the Congo Free State between Matadi in the province of Kongo-Central to Kinshasa opened. 1899 – The first Korean railway line connects Noryangjin (Seoul) with Jemulpo (Incheon).