Portal:Trains/Did you know/June 2021

June 2021

Cincinnati Subway's unfinished Race Street station

• ...that although it is only a little over 2 miles (3.2 km) in length, the Cincinnati Subway is the largest abandoned subway tunnel system in the United States?

A D train traverses the Manhattan Bridge in 2008

• ...that along with the three stations added with the opening of phase 1 of the New York City Subway's long delayed Second Avenue Subway, the Chrystie Street Connection opened in the 1960s is one of the few completed sections of the project?

DeHa 1002 in service in January 2012

• ...that the two 1000 series EMU cars used by Choshi Electric Railway until their retirement in 2016 were originally former TRTA (now Tokyo Metro) subway 2000 series EMU cars?

Hugh J. Chisholm in 1919

• ...that Hugh J. Chisholm, who founded and led the Portland and Rumford Falls Railway and the Rumford Falls and Rangeley Lakes Railroad, started his career as a newsboy distributing newspapers to passengers on the Grand Trunk Railway?

Chinley station in 2010

• ...that as part of renovations in 1902, the original 1867 station building at Chinley railway station was dismantled and then reassembled in a different location as a private residence?

A train at Chinatown station in 2011

• ...that accessibility renovations at MBTA's Chinatown station includes reopening the Hayward Place and Lagrange Street entrances that were closed in the 1970s?

A CRH2E Duplex high-speed overnight sleeper at Nanjing in 2017

• ...that the China Railway High-speed network makes up about two-thirds of the world's high-speed rail tracks in commercial service?

DF5 locomotive number 1295 pulls a freight train near Guilin Station in 2017

• ...that following severe damage to the Tangshan Locomotive Works factory in the 1976 earthquake, DF5 diesel-electric locomotive construction resumed in a temporary facility, which led the batch of 25 DF5 locomotives built there to be dubbed "Earthquake"?

An ND2 class locomotive of China Railways in 2007

• ...that the logo adopted by China Railway in 1950 was designed such that the upper part represents the Chinese character 人 (people) while the rail cross-section below it represents the character 工 (labour), which means that the railway belongs to the working class?

A train at Hatton Junction in 1985 on the current Chiltern Main Line

• ...that following its downgrade to secondary status under The Reshaping of British Railways in the 1960s, the Chiltern Main Line route was considered for partial closure in the 1980s?

The preserved Clinton Depot in 2013

• ...that before he was assigned as the Clinton Depot station agent in 1891, J.P. Pratt was a streetcar driver in St. Paul?

Preserved O-5 class locomotive number 5633 at Douglas, Wyoming, in 2010

• ...that in 1944 one of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's O-5 class 4-8-4 steam locomotives pulled an 82-car mail train?

Horsecars pass an encampment of troops outside the Chicago post office ahead of the Chicago strike of 1877

• ...that one of the stated goals for the Chicago railroad strike of 1877, which occurred as part of the larger Great Railroad Strike, was the nationalization of the rail and telegraph lines by the federal government?

Chibiki station in March 2021

• ...that despite serving hourly departures, Chibiki Station in Tōhoku, Aomori, Japan, is the least busy railway station on the Aoimori Railway Line?

Restored electric tramcar no. 7 at the National Tramway Museum, Crich, in 2006

• ...that the Chesterfield tramway pioneered the use of trolleybuses to extend its tram network as early as 1913?

Electric-powered replica of the Cherepanov locomotive, built in 2014

• ...that the Cherepanov steam locomotive, the first steam locomotive built in Russia, was built by Yefim and Miron Cherepanov after around six months of work within the duo's free time?