Friday, September 13, 2024
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The M-497 (nicknamed Black Beetle by the press) was an experimental jet-powered railcar test bed of the New York Central Railroad, developed and tested in 1966 in the United States. Two second-hand General Electric J47-19 jet engines, originally used as boosters for the Convair B-36 Peacemaker intercontinental bomber, were mounted atop an existing Budd Rail Diesel Car, an RDC-3 of coach and baggage-mail configuration which had received a streamlined front cowling.
Monday, September 2, 2024
The British Rail Derby Lightweight diesel multiple units were the first such trains to be built en masse for British Railways. They were built at BR's Derby Works from 1954 to 1955 in various formations, including 12 power-twin 2-car units, 84 power-trailer 2-car units, four 4-car units, and two single-car units.
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In 2012 Norfolk Southern began a $160 million project to expand its Bellevue rail yard in Northern Ohio that doubled the yard's capacit...