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1903 in rail transport

Index 1903 in rail transport

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113 relations: Albula Railway, Alps, AN Railway, Apalachicola Northern Railroad, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, Baker valve gear, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Benson, Arizona, Berlin–Baghdad railway, Birkenhead, Boston, Broad-gauge railway, Bryn Station, BSI Group, Bus, Casper, Wyoming, Charles Sanger Mellen, Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, Chicago Great Western Railway, Chief mechanical engineer, Chinese Eastern Railway, Civil engineer, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, Compound locomotive, Cornwall, Danbury, Connecticut, Danville, Virginia, Dübs and Company, E. H. Harriman, Edward T. Reidy, England, France, Francis Webb (engineer), Frederick J. Kimball, Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad, George Whale, Germany, Glasgow, Glasgow St Enoch rail accident, Gold Coast (British colony), Grand Trunk Western Railroad, Great Western Railway, Gustavus Franklin Swift, GWR road motor services, Helston, Howard Elliott (railroad executive), India, Indian Railways, Indiana University, Indianapolis, ..., J. Elfreth Watkins, JBS USA, John Bull (locomotive), John Marshall (railway historian), Kalka–Shimla railway, Konya, Kumasi, Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad, Lansing, Michigan, Lillestrøm Station, Liverpool, Locomotive, London and North Western Railway, Los Angeles, Marienfelde, Merchants Limited, Mersey Railway, Narrow-gauge railway, Neilson and Company, New York City, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, Norfolk and Western Railway, North British Locomotive Company, Northern Pacific Railway, Norwegian Railway Club, Obuasi, Ottoman Empire, Pacific Electric, Paris Métro, Paris Métro train fire, Parlor car, Patent, Purdue University, Purdue Wreck, Rail transport, Rail transport in Norway, Railroad Safety Appliance Act, Refrigerator car, Rhaetian Railway, River Mersey, Saint Petersburg, Scotland, Sharp, Stewart and Company, Smithsonian Institution, Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Southern Railway (U.S.), Steam locomotive, Switzerland, The Lizard, Third rail, Track gauge, Train, Trans-Siberian Railway, Trunk Line, Tucson, Arizona, Turkey, Union Pacific Railroad, United States, Vladivostok, Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railway, Wreck of the Old 97, Zossen, 2-10-2. Expand index (63 more) »

Albula Railway

The Albula Railway (Albulabahn; Ferrovia dell'Albula) is a single track metre gauge railway line forming part of the so-called core network of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.

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Alps

The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.

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AN Railway

The AN Railway is one of several shortline railroad companies owned by the Genesee & Wyoming parent company.

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Apalachicola Northern Railroad

The Apalachicola Northern Railroad was a short-line railroad which operated in the Florida Panhandle.

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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States.

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Baker valve gear

After about 1910 Baker valve gear was the main competitor to Walschaerts valve gear for steam locomotives in the United States.

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Baldwin Locomotive Works

The Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American manufacturer of railroad locomotives from 1825 to 1956.

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Benson, Arizona

Benson is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States, east-southeast of Tucson.

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Berlin–Baghdad railway

The Baghdad railway, also known as the Berlin–Baghdad railway (Bağdat Demiryolu, Bagdadbahn, سكة حديد بغداد, Chemin de Fer Impérial Ottoman de Bagdad), was built from 1903 to 1940 to connect Berlin with the (then) Ottoman Empire city of Baghdad, from where the Germans wanted to establish a port in the Persian Gulf, with a line through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, linked to Europe by a bridge crossing the Bosphorous.

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Birkenhead

Birkenhead is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Broad-gauge railway

A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge broader than the standard-gauge railways.

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Bryn Station

Bryn Station (Bryn stasjon) is a railway station on the Trunk Line located in the Bryn neighborhood of the Gamle Oslo borough of Oslo, Norway.

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BSI Group

BSI Group, also known as the British Standards Institution (BSI), is the national standards body of the United Kingdom.

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Bus

A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers.

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Casper, Wyoming

Casper is a city in and the county seat of Natrona County, Wyoming, United States.

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Charles Sanger Mellen

Charles Sanger Mellen (August 16, 1852 – November 17, 1927) was an American railroad man whose career culminated in the presidencies of the Northern Pacific Railway (1897-1903) and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (1903-1913).

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Chicago and North Western Transportation Company

The Chicago and North Western Transportation Company was a Class I railroad in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Great Western Railway

The Chicago Great Western Railway was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City.

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Chief mechanical engineer

Chief mechanical engineer and locomotive superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock.

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Chinese Eastern Railway

The Chinese Eastern Railway or CER,, Dōngqīng Tiělù; Китайско-Восточная железная дорога or КВЖД, Kitaysko-Vostochnaya Zheleznaya Doroga or KVZhD), also known as the Chinese Far East Railway and North Manchuria Railway, is the historical name for a railway across Manchuria (northeastern China).

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Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.

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Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway

The Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St.

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Compound locomotive

A compound locomotive is a steam locomotive which is powered by a compound engine, a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom.

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Danbury, Connecticut

Danbury is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, located approximately northeast of New York City, making it part of the New York metropolitan area.

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Danville, Virginia

Danville is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States, located on the fall line of the Dan River.

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Dübs and Company

Dübs & Co. was a locomotive manufacturer in Glasgow, Scotland, founded by Henry Dübs in 1863 and based at the Queens Park Works in Polmadie.

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E. H. Harriman

Edward Henry "Ned" Harriman (February 20, 1848 – September 9, 1909) was an American railroad executive.

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Edward T. Reidy

Edward T. Reidy (April 4, 1903 – October 1975) was an American railroad executive; he led the Chicago Great Western Railway between 1957 and its merger with the Chicago and North Western Railway in 1968.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Francis Webb (engineer)

Francis William Webb (21 May 1836 – 4 June 1906) was a British engineer responsible for the design and manufacture of locomotives for the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).

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Frederick J. Kimball

Frederick James Kimball (March 6, 1844 – July 27, 1903) was a civil engineer.

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Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad

The Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad (FE&MV), sometimes called "the Elkhorn," was a railroad established in 1869 in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.

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George Whale

George Whale (7 December 1842 – 7 March 1910) was a British locomotive engineer who was born in Bocking, Essex, and educated in Lewisham.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Glasgow St Enoch rail accident

The Glasgow St Enoch rail accident occurred on 27 July 1903.

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Gold Coast (British colony)

The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa from 1867 to its independence as the nation of Ghana in 1957.

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Grand Trunk Western Railroad

The Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company is an American subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway operating in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.

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Gustavus Franklin Swift

Gustavus Franklin Swift, Sr. (June 24, 1839 – March 29, 1903) was an American business executive.

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GWR road motor services

The Great Western Railway road motor services operated from 1903 to 1933, both as a feeder to their train services, and as a cheaper alternative to building new railways in rural areas.

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Helston

Helston (Hellys) is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Howard Elliott (railroad executive)

Howard Elliott (December 6, 1860 – July 8, 1928) was president of Northern Pacific Railway 1903-1913, and president of New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad beginning in 1913.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Railways

Indian Railways (IR) is India's national railway system operated by the Ministry of Railways.

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Indiana University

Indiana University (IU) is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States.

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Indianapolis

Indianapolis is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.

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J. Elfreth Watkins

John Elfreth Watkins Sr. (1852–1903) was Curator of Mechanical Technology at the United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution).

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JBS USA

JBS USA Holdings, Inc. is an American food processing company and a wholly owned subsidiary of JBS S.A. (B3:JBSS3), a Brazilian company that is the world's largest processor of fresh beef and pork, with more than US$49 billion in annual sales as of 2017.

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John Bull (locomotive)

John Bull is a British-built railroad steam locomotive that operated in the United States.

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John Marshall (railway historian)

John Marshall (1 May 1922 – 12 November 2008) was an English railway historian.

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Kalka–Shimla railway

The Kalka–Shimla railway is a narrow-gauge railway in North India which traverses a mostly-mountainous route from Kalka to Shimla.

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Konya

Konya (Ikónion, Iconium) is a major city in south-western edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau and is the seventh-most-populous city in Turkey with a metropolitan population of over 2.1 million.

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Kumasi

Kumasi (historically spelled Comassie or Coomassie and usually spelled Kumase in Twi) is a city in Ashanti Region, and is among the largest metropolitan areas in Ghana.

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Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad

The Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railroad, more commonly known as the Laurel Line, was a Pennsylvania third rail electric interurban streetcar line which operated commuter train service from 1903 to 1952, and freight service until 1976.

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Lansing, Michigan

Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Lillestrøm Station

Lillestrøm Station (Lillestrøm stasjon) is a railway station serving the town of Lillestrøm in Skedsmo, Norway.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Locomotive

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.

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London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Marienfelde

is a locality in southwest Berlin, Germany, part of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg borough.

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Merchants Limited

The Merchants Limited, sometimes shortened to Merchants, was a New York, New Haven and Hartford (the "New Haven") passenger train on the Shore Line between Boston and New York City.

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Mersey Railway

The Mersey Railway was a passenger railway that connected the communities of Liverpool and Birkenhead, England, which lie on opposite banks of the River Mersey, via the Mersey Railway Tunnel from 1886 to 1948.

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Narrow-gauge railway

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.

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Neilson and Company

Neilson and Company was a locomotive manufacturer in Glasgow, Scotland.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad

The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, commonly known as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated in northeastern United States from 1872 to 1968, dominating the region's rail traffic for the first half of the 20th century.

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Norfolk and Western Railway

The Norfolk and Western Railway was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982.

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North British Locomotive Company

The North British Locomotive Company (NBL, NB Loco or North British) was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow locomotive manufacturing companies; Sharp, Stewart and Company (Atlas Works), Neilson, Reid and Company (Hyde Park Works) and Dübs and Company (Queens Park Works), creating the largest locomotive manufacturing company in Europe and the British Empire.

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Northern Pacific Railway

The Northern Pacific Railway was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest.

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Norwegian Railway Club

The Norwegian Railway Club (Norsk Jernbaneklubb) is an association which is involved in the preservation of Norwegian museum railways.

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Obuasi

Obuasi is a Mining Community and town in the southern part of Obuasi Municipal of the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire (دولت عليه عثمانیه,, literally The Exalted Ottoman State; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti), also historically known in Western Europe as the Turkish Empire"The Ottoman Empire-also known in Europe as the Turkish Empire" or simply Turkey, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries.

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Pacific Electric

The Pacific Electric, nicknamed the Red Cars, was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s.

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Paris Métro

The Paris Métro, short for Métropolitain (Métro de Paris), is a rapid transit system in the Paris metropolitan area.

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Paris Métro train fire

The disastrous Paris Métro train fire occurred on the evening of 10 August 1903, on what was then Line 2 Nord of the system and is now Paris Métro Line 2.

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Parlor car

A parlor car (or parlour car outside the United States of America) is a type of passenger coach that provides superior comforts and amenities when compared to a standard coach.

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Patent

A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state or intergovernmental organization to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention.

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Purdue University

Purdue University is a public research university in West Lafayette, Indiana and is the flagship campus of the Purdue University system.

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Purdue Wreck

The Purdue Wreck was a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, Indiana, on October 31, 1903, which killed 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Rail transport in Norway

The Norwegian railway system comprises 4,087 km of (standard gauge) track of which 2,622 km is electrified and 242 km double track.

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Railroad Safety Appliance Act

The Safety Appliance Act is a United States federal law that made air brakes and automatic couplers mandatory on all trains in the United States.

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Refrigerator car

A refrigerator car (or "reefer") is a refrigerated boxcar (U.S.), a piece of railroad rolling stock designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures.

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Rhaetian Railway

The Rhaetian Railway (Rhätische Bahn, Ferrovia Retica, Viafier Retica), abbreviated RhB, is a Swiss transport company that owns the largest network of all private railway operators in Switzerland.

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River Mersey

The River Mersey is a river in the North West of England.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Sharp, Stewart and Company

Sharp, Stewart and Company was a steam locomotive manufacturer, initially based in Manchester, England.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.

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Southern Pacific Transportation Company

The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials- SP) was an American Class I railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1998 that operated in the Western United States.

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Southern Railway (U.S.)

The Southern Railway (also known as Southern Railway Company and now known as the current incarnation of the Norfolk Southern Railway) is a name of a class 1 railroad that was based in the Southern United States.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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The Lizard

The Lizard (An Lysardh) is a peninsula in southern Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Third rail

A third rail is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through a semi-continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a railway track.

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Track gauge

In rail transport, track gauge is the spacing of the rails on a railway track and is measured between the inner faces of the load-bearing rails.

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Train

A train is a form of transport consisting of a series of connected vehicles that generally runs along a rail track to transport cargo or passengers.

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Trans-Siberian Railway

The Trans-Siberian Railway (TSR, p) is a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East.

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Trunk Line

The Trunk Line (Hovedbanen) is a railway line in Norway which runs between Oslo and Eidsvoll.

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Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and home to the University of Arizona.

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Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vladivostok

Vladivostok (p, literally ruler of the east) is a city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai, Russia, located around the Golden Horn Bay, not far from Russia's borders with China and North Korea.

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Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railway

The Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railway (also known as the Cannon Ball) was an electric railway in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania connecting the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton.

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Wreck of the Old 97

The Wreck of the Old 97 was an American rail disaster involving the Southern Railway mail train, officially known as the Fast Mail, while en route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer, North Carolina, on September 27, 1903.

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Zossen

Zossen (Sosny) is a German town in the district of Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg, approximately 20 miles (30 km) south of Berlin, and next to the B96 highway.

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2-10-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels, ten powered and coupled driving wheels, and two trailing wheels.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1903_in_rail_transport

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