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  2. Extreme Trains - Wikipedia

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    Featured train 1 Coal Train November 11, 2008 Journey of a Norfolk Southern coal train from a coal mine to a PPL Electric power station in Pennsylvania: Norfolk Southern coal train 2 Freight Train November 18, 2008 High priority freight train from Los Angeles to Dallas/Fort Worth: BNSF double container stack train 3 High Speed Train November 25 ...

  3. Freight train - Wikipedia

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    Freight trains are made up of one or more locomotives which provide propulsion, along with one or more railroad cars (also known as wagons) which carry freight. A wide variety of cargos are carried on trains, but the low friction inherent to rail transport means that freight trains are especially suited to carrying bulk and heavy loads over ...

  4. Rail freight transport - Wikipedia

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    A Class 92 hauled container freight train on the West Coast Main Line, United Kingdom A long grain train of the Union Pacific Railroad crossing a bridge in Washington state, United States Freight trains wait for departure in Zhengzhou, China. Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.

  5. Schnabel car - Wikipedia

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    The train's speed is limited to 25 mph (40 km/h) when WECX 801 is empty, but only 15 mph (24 km/h) when loaded, and the system requires a crew of six operators in addition to the train's crew. [ 1 ] The second largest Schnabel car in service, owned by ABB , bears the CEBX 800 registration, and is used in North America .

  6. Shining Time Station - Wikipedia

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    Shining Time Station is a children's television series jointly created by British television producer Britt Allcroft and American television producer Rick Siggelkow. The series was produced by Quality Family Entertainment (the American branch of The Britt Allcroft Company), in association with Catalyst Entertainment in seasons 2 and 3, for New York City's PBS station WNET, and was originally ...

  7. CSX 8888 incident - Wikipedia

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    The train rolled out of the yard and began a 65-mile (105 km) journey south through northwest Ohio unmanned. Attempts to derail the train using a portable derailer failed; the portable derailer was thrown off the track by the force of the train when struck. Police officers tried to starve the engine of diesel fuel and shut it down by shooting ...

  8. Rail transport in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Dancer in the Dark (2000) – a hypnotic musical number is staged on a slow-moving freight train. The Darjeeling Limited (2007) – a comedy-drama by Wes Anderson that is primarily set aboard a luxury train, the Darjeeling Limited. Death Line (1972) – features a killer on the London Underground. Dil Se..

  9. Francis Bourgeois (trainspotter) - Wikipedia

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    Luke Magnus Nicolson [1] [2] [3] (born 9 July 2000 [4] [5]), known as Francis Bourgeois, is an English trainspotter, social media personality, model, and author.He is most known for his lighthearted and humorous videos on the topic of trains, posted to TikTok and Instagram.