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=== March 2020 ===

{{Trains portal/DYK image|Basel SBB Am 843 - 01.jpg|SBB-CFF-FFS Am 843 (G 1700-2 BB) shunting in Basel in 2010}}
* ...that the [[Vossloh]] '''[[Vossloh G1700 BB|G1700]]''' locomotives ordered by [[Swiss Federal Railways]] have a [[particulate filter]] built in to comply with a requirement for very low emissions?<!-- March 31, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|Caminito del Rey, desfiladero del Gran Gaitán, tunel puente ferroviario.jpg|Railway bridge in El Chorro}}
* ...that although the 1965 film '''''[[Von Ryan's Express]]''''' is set in Switzerland, the railway sequence at the film's conclusion was shot in Spain along the [[Caminito del Rey]] walkway in the [[El Chorro]] limestone gorge and the adjacent railway bridge?<!-- March 30, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|Golden Spike reinactment Chicago Railroad Fair.jpg|Golden Spike reenactment at the Chicago Railroad Fair}}
* ...that [[Virginia and Truckee Railroad]] [[steam locomotive]]s '''[[Virginia and Truckee 18 Dayton|#18 ''Dayton'']]''' and [[Virginia and Truckee 22 Inyo|#22 ''Inyo'']] were both modified to represent [[Union Pacific Railroad|Union Pacific]]'s [[Union Pacific No. 119|#119]] and [[Central Pacific Railroad|Central Pacific]]'s ''[[Jupiter (locomotive)|Jupiter]]'' for reenactments of the [[Golden Spike]] ceremony during the [[Chicago Railroad Fair]]?<!-- March 29, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|HenryVillard.jpg|Portrait of Henry Villard}}
* ...that '''[[Henry Villard]]''', president of [[Northern Pacific Railway]] in the 1880s, acquired the ''[[New York Evening Post]]'' and ''[[The Nation]]'' and also had a hand in the large electric power business founded by [[Thomas Edison]]?<!-- March 27, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|92 William England - The Victoria Bridge, Montreal.jpg|The original Victoria Bridge in 1859}}
* ...that the original deck of the '''[[Victoria Bridge (Montreal)|Victoria Bridge]]''' in [[Montreal]], the first bridge built across the [[St. Lawrence River]] and still used by [[Canadian National Railway]], was a long structural metal tube (a [[tubular bridge]]) made of prefabricated wrought iron sections imported from England?<!-- March 25, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|VIA 66 with 901.JPG|VIA train number 66, a [[Québec City–Windsor Corridor (Via Rail)|Corridor]] service, departs Toronto toward Montreal in September 2007}}
* ...that the '''[[ViaFast]]''' proposal of the early 2000s aimed to reduce travel times throughout the [[Quebec City – Windsor Corridor]] by up to two hours?<!-- March 24, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|Verona Station - 1909.jpg|Verona station in 1909 with the freight shed}}
* ...that the freight shed at '''[[Verona station (Erie Railroad)|Verona station]]''' in [[New Jersey]] survived two separate fires that both destroyed the passenger station building?<!-- March 23, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|Work at the Trestle.jpg|Sculpture of T.T. Vernon Smith at the job site building a trestle for the Windsor and Annapolis Railway}}
* ...that '''[[T. T. Vernon Smith]]''', Chief Engineer on the [[Windsor and Annapolis Railway]] project in the 1860s, was awarded an 1859 [[patent]] for the first automated steam-powered [[foghorn]]?<!-- March 21, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|Db-423322-00.jpg|class 423 multiple unit leaving the Hasenberg tunnel of the S-Bahn Stuttgart main tracks in 2006}}
* ...that although construction didn't begin until the 1970s, the idea of a tunnel between [[Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof]] and the Alter Postplatz, which eventually became the '''[[Verbindungsbahn (Stuttgart)|Verbindungsbahn]]''', was first proposed in the late 1940s?<!-- March 20, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|SBB-CFF-FFS Ae 6-6.jpg|An SBB Ae 6-6 electric locomotive pulling the Venice-Simplon Orient Express at Siders, Switzerland, in 2006}}
* ...that although the [[Luxury Trains|luxury]] '''[[Venice-Simplon Orient Express]]''' uses some restored carriages from the original [[Orient Express]] service and operates over similar routes, it is not considered as the lineal descendant of that service?<!-- March 19, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|Venice Depot Aerial from south.JPG|The preserved Venice station in 2014}}
* ...that the site of [[Seaboard Air Line Railroad]]'s '''[[Venice Seaboard Air Line Railway Station|Venice station]]''' in Florida was moved due to was a desire by the [[Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen|Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers]] to increase the union's assets and holdings in the area?<!-- March 18, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|The Boyne viaduct, Drogheda.jpg|Interlaced track on the Boyne Viaduct in 1983}}
* ...that after about 80 years of service as a [[Double-track railway|double track]] bridge, '''[[Boyne Viaduct]]''' in [[Drogheda]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], was rebuilt in the 1930s with new steel girders that required [[Gauntlet track|interlaced track]] on a section of the bridge?<!-- March 17, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|Harold Lloyd - 'All Aboard! By the Sad Sea Waves' on the Venice Miniature Railway.jpg|A scene from a 1917 Harold Lloyd film that used the Venice Miniature Railway in which the lion's head ornaments are clearly visible}}
* ...that the lion's head ornaments on the sides of the '''[[Venice Miniature Railway]]'s''' passenger cars were supplied by the J.G. McLain Company for $400 ({{inflation|US|400|1905|fmt=eq}}) each?<!-- March 16, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|Frecciargenta (8614781688).jpg|High-speed trains at Venezia Santa Lucia station in 2013}}
* ...that '''[[Venezia Santa Lucia railway station]]''' is named in recognition of the [[Santa Lucia, Venice|Church of Santa Lucia]] which, along with its convent, was demolished in 1861 to make way for the station?<!-- March 15, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|Ec249, Kellerberrin, ca. 1903.jpg|A WAGR Ec class showing typical application of Vauclain compound system circa 1903}}
* ...that uneven forces at the [[crosshead]] on '''[[Vauclain compound]]''' equipped [[steam locomotive]]s produced excess wear, which increased maintenance costs offsetting predicted fuel economies?<!-- March 14, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, August 1974 (22313391448).jpg|The rear of a Skytop Lounge at Chicago Union Station in 1974}}
* ...that in the 1960s, the [[Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad|Milwaukee Road]]'s [[Chicago Union Station]] to [[Madison, Wisconsin]], '''''[[Varsity (train)|Varsity]]''''' service used displaced [[Skytop Lounge]]s from the defunct ''[[Olympian Hiawatha]]''?<!-- March 13, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|ModernFinnishTram.jpg|A Variotram in the Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland, in 2004}}
* ...that forty '''[[Variobahn|Variotrams]]''' were built by [[Transtech (Finnish company)|Transtech]] for [[Helsinki City Transport]], but because Transtech was acquired by [[Bombardier Transportation|Bombardier]] during their production, the Helsinki trams were the only Variotrams to be produced under the Bombardier name?<!-- March 11, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|Vanderbilt & Fisk.jpg|1870 cartoon depicting Cornelius Vanderbilt atop Hudson River and New York Central locomotives in a race against James Fisk atop an Erie Railroad locomotive}}
* ...that after purchasing control of the [[Hudson River Railroad]] in 1864, the [[New York Central Railroad]] in 1867, '''[[Cornelius Vanderbilt]]''' created the [[New York Central and Hudson River Railroad]], one of the first giant corporations in United States history?<!-- March 10, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|WMATA Van Dorn Street station.jpg|The platform level of Van Dorn Street station in 2005}}
* ...that a decade before construction began, the city of [[Alexandria, Virginia|Alexandria]], [[Southern Railway (U.S.)|Southern Railway]], and [[United Parcel Service|UPS]] reached an agreement allowing [[Washington Metro]] to retain the [[air rights]] to build '''[[Van Dorn Street station]]''' when funding became available?<!-- March 9, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|Vallorbe signals 050708.jpg|A TGV train at Vallorbe station in 2008}}
* ...that southbound trains from [[France]] approach '''[[Vallorbe railway station]]''' from a southwesterly direction, and northbound trains from [[Lausanne railway station|Lausanne]] approach from the northeast?<!-- March 8, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|Valley railway co stock certificate 1880.jpg|Valley Railway stock certificate from 1880}}
* ...that the 1879 [[Title (property)|title]] transfer of a portion of the former [[Ohio and Erie Canal]] for the '''[[Valley Railway]]'s''' [[right-of-way (transportation)#Rail right-of-way|right-of-way]] was the basis of a lawsuit that was finally settled in 1912 in the [[Supreme Court of Ohio]] in favor of the railway?<!-- March 3, 2020 -->{{-}}
{{Trains portal/DYK image|D2 10228E1R1 7004wallan.jpg|A Sprinter at Wallan station in November 2007}}
* ...that the {{track gauge|1600mm}} [[track gauge|gauge]] [[V/Line]] '''[[V/Line Sprinter|Sprinter]]''' cars built by [[UGL Rail|A Goninan & Co]], [[Broadmeadow, New South Wales|Broadmeadow]], were transferred to [[Melbourne]] by rail on [[standard gauge]] [[Transporter wagon|transfer bogies]]?<!-- March 2, 2020 -->{{-}}

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