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Produced in 1995, Schwebebahn is the first of three videos that constitute his Train Trilogy. The Museum of Modern Art has a two-minute film from 1902 featuring the Schwebebahn. [ 30 ] A colourized and upscaled version of the 1902 film is now available [ 31 ] and has been matched with a recent video.
Route Nationale #2 (RN2) is commonly known as “Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines” within Port-au-Prince and as “Route du Sud” outside the capital region. After heading south through downtown Port-au-Prince, it travels west through the capital's western boroughs and then through Petit-Goâve and Aquin to its terminus at Avenue des Quatre ...
Emerson Zooline Railroad's Chance Rides C.P. Huntington train in Saint Louis Zoo, one of hundreds of exact copies of this ride model in locations worldwide. A ridable miniature railway (US: riding railroad or grand scale railroad) is a large scale, usually ground-level railway that hauls passengers using locomotives that are often models of full-sized railway locomotives (powered by diesel or ...
3-wheeled handcar or velocipede on a railroad track Preserved railroad velocipede on exhibit at the Toronto Railway Historical Association. A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, [1] velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind.
Let us train Sons, let us train Sons Free, strong and prosperous We shall always be brothers Let us train Sons, Let us train Sons For the Country and for our Fathers Let us train, let us train, let us train Sons For the Country and for our Fathers. For the Forefathers, for the Fatherland O Lord of the Valiant, O Lord of the Valiant!
A tomb was raised by Étienne Gérin's wife with the inscription: Ci-git Dessalines, mort à 48 ans ("Here lies Dessalines, died at 48 years old"). [34] Dessalines' body was later moved to the Autel de la Patrie (Altar of the Nation) in the Champs-de-Mars alongside Pétion's body. A monument at the northern entrance of the Haitian capital marks ...
The Yosemite Valley Railroad operated a cable railway at Incline, California. The Duquesne Incline in Pittsburgh , PA was completed in 1877, and is 800 ft (244 m) long and 400 ft (122 m) high. 1891 – The Johnstown Inclined Plane , in Johnstown , PA, was completed following the Great Johnstown Flood of 1889 .
On 21 June 2010, a train of the Congo–Ocean Railroad was involved in a major accident, in which at least 60 people were killed. The train is believed to have derailed as it went round a curve in a remote area between Bilinga and Tchitondi, throwing four carriages into a ravine. The dead and wounded were taken to hospitals and morgues in ...