Portal:Trains/Did you know/May 2021

May 2021

A train at Berck-Plage circa 1907

• ...that the Chemins de Fer du Nord advanced ₣3.8 million, an average of ₣43,000 per kikometre, to build the Chemins de fer d'Aire à Fruges et de Rimeux-Gournay à Berck in 1890?

The preserved Chelsea station building in 2011

• ...that the former Michigan Central Railroad Chelsea station is the only known Michigan example designed by the well known Detroit architectural firm of Mason and Rice?

Drawing of "Novelty" shown The Mechanics Magazine in 1829

• ...that the British mechanical draughtsman Charles Cheffins, who drew one of the earliest drawings of Novelty, was an expert witness in the patent infringement lawsuit about that locomotive?

The track and platform at Chappaqua station with the historic station on right

• ...that next to the modern Chappaqua station is a building opened by the New York Central Railroad in 1902 and still in use as a waiting area that was built on land donated by the daughter of Horace Greeley?

Cape Government Railways 0-4-0ST harbour construction locomotive "Aid" shortly after erection at Port Alfred circa 1878

• ...that the 0-4-0ST steam locomotive named Aid was purchased to alleviate the need for ferrying Blackie between the banks of the Kowie River?