Portal:Trains/Did you know/September 2022

September 2022

• ...that although the former Santa Fe Railway's Galesburg station was demolished after regular passenger service to the station ended in 1996, the site is still used if derailments cause trains to use the Chillicothe Subdivision instead of the Mendota Subdivision?

• ...that the Fuzhou–Xiamen railway, which opened in 2010, was so heavily used that it reached capacity in 2015, spurring construction on the parallel Fuzhou–Xiamen high-speed railway for CRH passenger train services?

• ...that due to the serious shortage of vehicles, boxcars accounted for half of all the departing cars at Fuyang Station in the mid-1990s?

• ...that Fulton Street station is actually four individual stations all named Fulton Street?

• ...that the first Fujikyu 8000 series train is decorated with 44 different "Mount Fuji" caricatures including 14 designs submitted by the general public?

• ...that on the 1-in-62½ grade of the Succursale line, two FS Class 420 steam locomotives were able to pull trains of 450 t (990,000 lb) at 20 km/h (12 mph)?

• ...that the state of Colorado is working to secure funding from the Federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, passed in November 2021, to help implement the Front Range Passenger Rail initiative?

• ...that due to the location of Fridley station at the westbound yard limit of the BNSF Railway Northtown classification yard, as many as 63 trains per day can be seen there, aside from the 12 daily Northstar Line trains?

• ...that the railway on which the Transporth Fremantle line service runs originally opened in 1881 as the first suburban railway line in Perth?

• ...that by 1968, when it was sold to Amfac, Inc., the Fred Harvey Company, well known for its business relationship with the Santa Fe Railway, was the sixth largest food retailer in the United States?