At the Reisszug, a funicular railway at the Hohensalzburg Castle in Austria.
Trevithick built a full-size steam road locomotive in 1801.
Blacksmiths work by heating pieces of wrought iron or steel until the metal becomes soft enough for shaping with hand tools
Salamanca was the first commercially successful steam locomotive, built in 1812 by Matthew Murray of Holbeck
Stephenson's Rocket was an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement. It was built for, and won, the Rainhill Trials held by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1829 to choose the best design to power the railway.
Puffing Billy is the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive
The American railroad mania began with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1828.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works was an American manufacturer of railroad locomotives from 1825 to 1972. Originally located in Philadelphia, it moved to nearby Eddystone, Pennsylvania, in the early 20th century. The company was for decades the world's largest producer of steam locomotives, but struggled to compete as demand switched to diesel locomotives. Baldwin produced the last of its 70,000-plus locomotives in 1956 and went out of business in 1972. The company has no relation to the E.M. Baldwin and Sons locomotive builder of New South Wales, Australia.
The railway system in Great Britain is the oldest in the world.
In railroading's golden age the B&O was one of several trunk lines uniting the northeast quadrant of the United States into an industrial zone.
Took its first official run in the U.S. took place on August 8 1829 in Honesdale, Pennsylvania.
The first long-distance railway in Germany was the Leipzig-Dresden railway, completed on 7 April 1839.
The country's first train, Red Hill Railway (built by Arthur Cotton to transport granite for road-building), ran from Red Hills to the Chintadripet bridge in Madras in 1837.
The first railway line over Swiss territory was the Strasbourg–Basle line opened in 1844. Three years later, in 1847, the first fully Swiss railway line, the Spanisch Brötli Bahn, from Zürich to Baden was opened.
The first ever Brazilian railway connected the Port of Mauá to Raiz da Serra and was inaugurated in 30th of April 1854.
Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Cordoba, Resistencia, Paraná, La Plata, Santiago del Estero & Salta are only cities to offer suburban passenger services.
The Stirling Single is a class of steam locomotive designed for express passenger work.
The first railways in China were built during the Qing Dynasty in the late 19th Century.
The Shay locomotive was the most widely used geared steam locomotive.
1st commercially successful internal combustion engine powered locomotive built in the United States
A total of thirty-three units were produced between 1925 and 1928. These were the first commercially successful production diesel-electric locomotives.
The Class A4 locomotives were introduced in 1935 to haul a new streamlined train called the Silver Jubilee to run between London King's Cross and Newcastle.
Twenty-five such engines were built between 1941 and 1944, numbered 4000 to 4024.
GE Universal Series locomotives were diesel locomotives originally launched by GE in early 1956.
High-speed rail is a type of rail transport that operates significantly faster than traditional rail traffic, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks.
The EuroSprinter family of electric locomotives is a modular concept of locomotives for the European market built by Siemens.
The Colombia railway network has a total length of 3,304 kilometres (2,053 mi).
The Evolution Series is a line of diesel locomotives built by GE Transportation Systems.
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