IT IS A myth that, whatever his faults, Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, made the trains run on time. He didn’t. If even a man with dictatorial powers cannot enforce a railway timetable, what hope is there in a messy democracy? In India a third...
Diesel locomotives had replaced steam ones. But by the mid-20th century, the decline of the U.S. railroads had begun. A developed interstate highway system and extensive federal regulations took their toll on trains. In the ongoing energy crisis, however, trains, which run on diesel and ...
Turkey: one Garratt have been tried and a few Mallets have been used in the 1920's but they were taken out very quickly. Mallet should have been very successful but my guess is that the lack of capital finance prevented TCDD from buying them. Maybe someone can provide additional explanation...
Classic Trains covers North American railroads from the 1940s through the early 1970s. Includes many first person stories and period photos.
As you can see from this photo, theBlue Trainis.. well it’s blue. It connects two of South Africa’s most important cities, Cape Town and Pretoria, covering a total distance of around 1,600 km, and it’s also one of the most luxurious trains in the world, providing you butler ser...
“Two Trains Runnin’” intermingles two completely unrelated non-fiction threads which converge in the state of Mississippi on June 21, 1964, One of them is triumphant, the other tragic. One is a well-known story, the other is a mystery whose outcome is not so well-known. Both sections...
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Trains have a constant acceleration (might be 0) and do not stop and turn around while in front of the camera. In reality, this is often not true, there happens to be a stop signal right in front of my balcony... Documentation
first in separate work camps and later in a settlement in Hope, isolated from their neighbors by racial and cultural barriers. By the 1920s most of the Chinese population had moved on. A small Chinese cemetery in Hope and artifacts at the Bonner County Historical Museum are all that remain ...
History and news about the modern Turkish Railway (TCDD) and the former Anatolian Railways (OC, ORC, SCP, CFOA). A special emphasis is placed on steam locomotives in Turkey