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The Galaxy Railways (銀河鉄道物語, Ginga Tetsudō Monogatari) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Leiji Matsumoto, creator of Galaxy Express 999, and is about flying trains set in the far reaches of outer space. It began airing on October 4, 2003.
Trainz is a series of 3D train simulator video games.The Australian studio Auran (since 2007 N3V Games) released the first game in 2001.. The simulators consist of route and session editors called Surveyor, and a Driver module that loads a route and lets the player operate and watch the trains run in either "DCC" mode, which simulates a bare-bones Digital Command Control (DCC) system for the ...
Sirius Platoon, named after the star, is the main Platoon in the series.The Platoon's engine is Big One, which is based on the Union Pacific Railroad's 4-8-8-4 Big Boy locomotives, the largest steam locomotives ever built, but with many differences, like a second headlight in place of the bell and number boards, a single smokestack instead of a double one, a number board on the front of its ...
The film Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Fantasy was released in 1998. This film takes place a few years after the events of Adieu Galaxy Express 999 and is the third film in the anime series, [7] [8] where Maetel and Tetsuro reunite to save the universe again from another evil. It also serves as a link between this film and The Galaxy Railways.
Galaxy Express 999 was released in Japan on August 4, 1979 where it was distributed by Toei Company. [2] [3] It was the highest grossing film of 1979 in Japan. [6] The film was picked up for distribution in the United States by Roger Corman's New World Pictures in 1980 but was shelved until 1982 after test bookings. [7]
The train soon gained worldwide acclaim, and its route would later stretch to 620 miles (998 kilometers), to Cleveland, Ohio. The Empire State was the first passenger train with a schedule speed of over 52 mph and the first to make runs of 142.88 miles (230 km) between stops (between New York City and Albany : the longest scheduled nonstop run ...
They started to experimental work at National Railway Test Center of China Academy of Railway in Beijing after they rolled off, and they were tested at up to 160 km/h (100 mph). [15] [16] On 18 November 2015, the China Standardized EMU hit a speed of 385 km/h (240 mph) and passed the high speed test on Datong–Xi'an Passenger Railway. The EMU ...
A short-lived route of the 1880s operated by The Isle of Wight Railway Marine Transit Company, then the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (after the IoWRMTC's finances got in a bad state), [46] using the former Tay ferry Carrier to link with the Isle of Wight Railway. [47] [48]