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The world's first model railway was made for the son of Emperor Napoleon III in 1859 at the Château de Saint-Cloud. [1] However, "There is a strong possibility that Matthew Murray, who built the geared-for-safety rack engines for John Blenkinsop's coal mine near Leeds, England, was actually the first man ever to make a model locomotive." [2]
The F&SM uses the same initials as Sellios' company and is co-located in the former FSM company office. It is a stylized model railroad set in 1935 in a fictional area of New England during the Great Depression, characterized by cluttered scenery, colorful billboards and signs, simulated dilapidation, weedy sidewalks, heavy weathering and artistic license.
Sounder (reporting mark SDRX) [2] is a commuter rail system that serves the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington.It is managed by Sound Transit and operated by BNSF Railway on 82 miles (132 km) of tracks, primarily owned by BNSF, using equipment maintained by Amtrak.
Sound Transit operates three main transit services across the Seattle metropolitan area: the Link light rail system, which serves as the rapid transit system for the region; the Sounder commuter rail system from Everett to Lakewood, via Seattle; and the Sound Transit Express bus system across the three counties. [2]
Chehalis Western Railroad, Pend Oreille Valley Railroad, Seattle and North Coast Railroad: Clealum Railroad: NP: 1886 1898 Northern Pacific Railway: Clearwater Short Line Railway: NP: 1898 1914 Northern Pacific Railway: Columbia Railway and Navigation Company: GN/ NP: 1890 1902 Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway: Columbia and Palouse ...
The Bellingham Railway Museum was a nonprofit museum located in downtown Bellingham, Washington, USA, that displayed a pictorial and text history of railroad traffic in Whatcom and Skagit Counties, as well as a large electric model railroad, an exhibit of railroad lanterns, and a train simulator based on Microsoft Train Simulator software.
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The Great Train Story is a 3,500-square-foot (330 m 2) HO scale model railroad display located in the Transportation Zone of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. It explains the story of modern-day rail transportation in a 2,206-mile (3,550 km) journey from Seattle, Washington, through several plains states en route to Chicago, Illinois.