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Breaking Bad Filming Location "Train Tracks"
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By: qstone.
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Filming location used in the popular AMC television series "Breaking Bad." The series stars, Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn and Aaron Paul.
This remote location in the New Mexico desert was used in season 5, episode 5 where Walter White, Jesse Pinkman and Mike Ehrmantraut hatch an elaborate plan to steal Methylamine from a train and store it in a buried tank under the tracks.
This location is where they buried the tank and siphoned off the Methylamine from the train.

2007-05-23 - Site of Train Derailment & Spills of Beer, Asphalt
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By: mlc1us.
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A string of runaway rail cars spilled beer in downtown Denver Wednesday after they crashed into a parked locomotive and derailed. A tanker car carrying Coors beer overturned and spilled its contents onto the rail yard. Another car carrying asphalt was damaged and leaked.

Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic
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By: kjfitz.
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Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic - Amphibious Reconnaissance Section.
The mission of Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic is to provide instruction and training for personnel and units of the US Atlantic Fleet, reserve components, and allied military personnel in order to achieve and maintain an optimum state of readiness for amphibious operations; to provide training in shipboard engineering, naval gunfire support, naval science, and seamanship, conduct training for the total force in the doctrine, tactics and techniques of amphibious, Maritime Prepositioned Forces (MPF), and waterborne operations, with emphasis on landing forces matters for the Atlantic Fleet.

Surplussed Disney Monorails
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Delivered in 1977, the last two Mark IV monorails built for Walt Disney World had an amazing career.
As monorails Coral and Lime, these two six-car monorail trains handled millions of riders at Walt Disney World. Then in 1995, they became the first monorails for the Las Vegas system. Handling 5 million passengers annually until retirement in early 2003, they led the way to the development of a new mass transit system for the city of Las Vegas.
Now sitting on blocks south of the city, these monorails have had a less-than-proud retirement. While there is talk of buyers, these monorails remain open to the elements, fully vandalized, in an open storage yard near railroad tracks. There are vehicles of far less historic significance that have been fully restored to sit proudly in museums across the world.

E652 005 prototype at station in Udine
berli110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: berli110.
L' E652 005 é un prototipo costruito dall'ABB Tecnomasio Ansaldo nel gennaio 1991

End of the Line Caboose Village
milwhcky (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: milwhcky.
Dave and Pat Hanley opened this hotel consisting of 43 remodeled cabooses in December 1984. They got the idea for the business after buying a caboose to be used as a guest house at their family farm in 1982.
In 1983, they purchased the cabooses from Chicago & Northwestern and Milwaukee Road rail yards and acquired a one mile stretch of abandoned railway near the Lake Geneva resort area.
They spent a year and a half remodeling the cabooses inside and out. Some of the cars were joined together to form suites.
In 2000, the couple was ready to retire and sold the cabooses individually to new owners. Many of the new owners use their caboose as a personal summer home, and some offer their caboose for rent to tourists.

Severely smashed rail car
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
Sure hope no one was on this when it happened.
The city entered the industrial age in the 19th century. In 1835, the first railway on the European continent linked Brussels with Mechelen, which became the hub of the Belgian railway network. This led to a development of metalworking industries, among others the central railway workshops which are still located in the town today.

The Great Train Wreck of 1918
1JonKing (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: 1JonKing.
The Great Train Wreck of 1918 occurred on July 9, 1918, in Nashville, Tennessee. Two passenger trains, operated by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad ("NC&StL"), collided head-on, killing 101 people and injuring an additional 171. It is considered the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
The two trains involved were the No. 4, scheduled to depart Nashville for Memphis, Tennessee at 7:00 a.m., and the No. 1 from Memphis, about a half-hour late for a scheduled arrival in Nashville at 7:10 a.m. At about 7:20 a.m., the two trains collided while traversing a section of single track line known as "Dutchman's Curve" west of downtown, in the present-day neighborhood of Belle Meade. Traveling at an estimated 50/60 miles per hour, the impact derailed both trains and completely destroyed several wooden cars.

Train Wreckage from "The Fugitive"
Parabellum (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Parabellum.

Rail track into the side of a museum
The Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit .

Trains in bunkers at Concord Naval Weapons Station
Naval Weapons Station (WPNSTA) Concord is a 12,800-acre site located in the north-central portion of Contra Costa County. WPNSTA Concord facility is comprised of two geographically separate units, the Inland (5,170 acres) and Tidal (7,630 acres) Areas, and a radiography facility in Pittsburgh, California. Aside from typical administrative and support work activities, this facility is the major ammunition transshipment port of the West Coast for the Department of Navy.

Los Angeles Union Station
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.
Union Station in Los Angeles, which opened in May 1939, is known as the "Last of the Great Railway Stations" built in the United States, but even with its massive and ornate waiting room and adjacent ticket concourse, it is considered small in comparison to other union stations. It was formerly designated the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal (LAUPT), but its current owner, Catellus Development, officially changed the name to Los Angeles Union Station (LAUS).

Subway train graveyard
Where the old London tube trains are put to rest. Check out the length of this subway train.

Thomas the Tank Engine
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By: TexasAndroid.

Amtrak Acela at Ivy City Maintenance Facility
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
One of Amtrak's Acela trains at the Ivy City maintenance facility.
Thumbnail from Google Earth.

Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) train
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, more commonly called MARTA, is the largest public rapid-transit system (in both size and ridership) in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and the ninth largest in the United States. MARTA operates a network of bus routes linked to a heavy rail rapid transit system consisting of 48 miles (77 kilometers) of track with 38 train stations. As of 2006, the system has an average weekday ridership of 451,064 passengers. The MARTA acronym is pronounced as a single word, not as individual letters.

The ICE power head 401 551 (Eschede train disaster)
Rene73 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Rene73.
This locomotive pushed the ICE that was mostly destroyed in the Eschede train disaster.
This picture ( ) was taken on the grounds of the repair center Nuremberg.

Hallandsås Tunnel (Northern entrence)
alfjon (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: alfjon.
The Hallandsås Tunnel (Swedish: Hallandsåstunneln), also known as the Hallandsas Ridge Tunnel or Scanlink, is a railway tunnel under construction in Sweden. The planned length is 8.5 km (5.3 miles). It will be located on the Västkustbanan (West Coast Railway), on the section between Ängelholm and Halmstad in southwestern Sweden. When finished, it will connect the city of Gothenburg, Sweden with Malmö, Sweden. Today there is a single track, curvy, steep railway over the ridge. The project was conceived by the European Round Table of Industrialists and the Swedish Railway Administration in the 1980s.

1989-05-12 - Rail disaster site
alfjon (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: alfjon.
Southern Pacific Railroad freight train derails on this site. Days later, the Cal-Neva natural gas pipeline explodes at the same location.

New trains at Bombardier plant

Airliner Traveling Coach
Pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Pdunn.
A plane enroute by train to Boeing's Renton facility in Washington State.

United States Steel Corp. #727
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
H.K. Porter built steam locomotive, 0-4-0T configuration

Big Boy 4018 - longest steam locomotive ever built
They are often proclaimed as the largest steam locomotives ever built, but that title is quite controversial — there were heavier locomotives, and possibly more powerful locomotives. However, without tender, the Big Boy's locomotive body was the longest of all of them and fully loaded with water and fuel the Big Boy was the heaviest of all of them, even though the locomotive without tender was lighter than some. However, the Big Boy is in the running in every category, and it certainly could be said to be the most successful of the giant locomotives.

Conway Scenic Railroad
The Conway Scenic Railroad (CSRR) is a heritage railway in North Conway, New Hampshire.
The excursions are of varying duration - either one of the Valley routes to Conway or Bartlett, or the Crawford Notch excursion. The Conway train is a 55 minute round trip, while the Bartlett train is a 1¾ hour round trip. The Notch train is actually two different trips: the standard Notch train which is a 5 hour round trip, or the Fabyans train which is a 5½ hour round trip.
The motive power for the Conway and Bartlett trains is usually an EMD GP7 locomotive #573 ex MEC, but sometimes it is an EMD F7#4266 diesel electric locomotive or the S4 Alco 1,000 HP swither locomotive #1055 . The current motive power for the Notch train is 2 Canadian EMD FP9s (soon to be replaced by a GE U23B #21 and a GE B23-7). During the mid summer to late fall the CSRR brings out New Hampshire's only standard gauge coal-fired steam locomotive #7470, an 0-6-0 originally built for the Canadian National Railroad, built in 1921. The 7470 primarily runs on the Conway branch, except on special occasions when it runs to Bartlette and Crawford Notch. 7470 underwent boiler restoration between 2001 and August 2006.
Some passenger cars on the Conway and Bartlett trains are the dining car Chocorua, the open deck Pullman observation car Gertrude Emma, and a nice open air coach. The notch train has an open air car, a vista dome car (the Dorthea Mae), and a first class car (the Carrol P. Reed).
The CSRR is located in historic downtown North Conway in the Mount Washington valley.

Largest steam and largest deisel locomotives ever built
This is the only place in the world to see both the largest steam engine and the largest diesel locomotive ever to ride the rails. The Union Pacific’s 594-ton “Big Boy” 4014 steam-powered engine shares the spotlight with the Union Pacific Centennial DD40X diesel-powered locomotive, which measures nearly 100 feet in length.

Former Elstree South Underground Station (Never Used)
Drudii (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Drudii.
Elstree South was a planned tube station in London on the planned extension of the Northern line from Edgware (open) to Bushey Heath (never opened).
The stations and extension were planned and construction did start. However, WWII broke out and the plans were stopped and since then have been abandoned.
If the station had been built it would have had 2 platforms.
What's today:
As WWII broke out before the construction of Elstree South, nothing was ever built. The planned location of the station has now been occupied by an Esso petrol station.
An interesting video explaning the whole thing in more detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjuD288JlCs

Aérotrain Test Track
Tyco (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Tyco.
In 1969, a third, 18 km test track was built to test Aérotrain prototype I80. This test track was in Loiret, France, north from Orléans, stretching between Saran and Ruan, a location that would enable it to be used in a future Paris-Orléans line. The track was elevated 5 m above the ground, was supported by pillars and allowed speeds of 400 km/h. A platform stood at each end of the line to reverse the train, while a hangar on the central platform at Chevilly housed the test vehicle. This line, while abandoned, became a famous landmark subject to cosmetic disputes after the end of the Aérotrain programme, and exists today, visible to the east of RN20 and the Paris-Orléans railway line. [1]

Train of tanks
dda (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: dda.

Atlantic Coast Line RR No. 1504
Wheels: 4-6-2
Builder: Alco (Richmond)
Build Date: 03/1919
Construction No.: 59314
Empty Weight: 278,000
Weight on Drivers: 178,000
Driver Diameter: 73
Tractive Effort: 40,750
Boiler Pressure: 200
Cylinders: 25x28
Fuel: Coal
Gauge: Standard

Danish IC4 train in Libya
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
This train was going to be delivered to the Danish Railways (DSB) in 2009 but it was missing. Then in 2011 a Danish newspaper heard a story about a train former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi gave to Libyan President Gaddafi to his 40th. anniversary.
Danish reporters were sent to Libya to see the train made by AnsaldoBreda. The reporters found Danish signs on the train, not Libyan. Only change was the interiour.
Berlusconi wasn't popular for that and Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen criticized him for it.

NYC Subway Control Center
skyeye (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: skyeye.
The New York City Transit subway network includes 27 routes, 722 miles of track and 468 stations. With 4.5 million passenger trips per day and an annual ridership of more than 1.4 billion, NYCT has the highest ridership in North America and is ranked among the largest transit systems in the world. More information can be found at www.mta.info.
The New York City Transit Rapid Transit Division's Rail Command Control Center is a new facility with state-of-the-art monitoring systems and is the largest rail control center in the world.

Southeastern Railway Museum

Denver Light Rail

Former Oklahoma State Fairground Monorail on static display
A monorail was located at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds. It was removed in 2005. If you look to the east and west the track is gone. Perhaps this is a historical display now.

Chattanooga Choo-Choo
Hotel, train and song.
This is the train station that the Cincinnati Southern Railroad's train that was called the Chattanooga Choo-Choo departed from. A newspaper reporter dubbed the huffing and puffing little steam locomotive the Chattanooga Choo Choo. Although the Chattanooga’s Terminal Station was significant in its role of the train era with it’s “Track 29�?, little was known about the first Chattanooga Choo Choo. Only after Glenn Miller's orchestra made the catchy song popular in the late 1940's did the name become world famous. Introduced in 1941 by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the song was featured in the movie "Sun Valley." The song, "Chattanooga Choo Choo," traveled fast throughout the circles of Europe during World War II.
The station has been turned into a railroad themed hotel.

Air Force Strategic Air Command rail cars on static display
Not sure what these were. MX Missile transports / mobile launchers perhaps?

Disneyland monorail

Nuclear submarine fuel rods on rail cars
To be shipped off to Idaho.

Pripyat abandoned trains
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
Yanov Railway Station, just outside Pripyat.

Oklahoma State Fairground Monorail
Dismantled in June, 2005. Only had one stop so you got off where you got on. Hmmm, I wonder why it never caught on.

Hesston Steam Museum

Prototype Tracked Air Cushion vehicle
Part of the Mass Transit Research Museum on display at the Pueblo Historical Aircraft Society museum.
This prototype, experimental air cushion vehicle cost $10 million to develop. Designed to ride on a cushion of air over a magnetic force track arrangement this trolley has the capability of carrying 60 passengers at 150 mph. Propelled by a pollution-free LIM (Linear Induction Motor) , it has air intakes which suggest a BEM (Bug-Eyed Monster)-a long-time denizen of science-fiction stories.
In the later half of the 1960's, the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) sponsored aerospace companies to develop mass transit prototypes to meet growing transportation needs for urban areas. The UMTA also encouraged foreign competition to enter America's mass transit market because of the country's undercapacity to meet perceived future market needs.
In 1970, Rohr Industries, Inc. (with its aerospace division based in Chula Vista, California) chose to develop an Aerotrain for the project.
Jean Bertin, a French engineer who had already developed and tested the first Aerotrains in France during the 1960's, licensed his hovercraft technology to Rohr Industries, Inc. The aerospace engineers at Rohr made improvements to the French design and came up with a modern Aerotrain marvel of their own.
Their Aerotrain was a tracked air-cushion vehicle (TACV) designed for sixty passengers and could travel at 150 mph. This electric vehicle floated on air to provide a very smooth ride and was propelled by a linear induction motor (LIM) using a monorail for lateral guidance. When not hovering on air, the Aerotrain could rest on its skid rails or on retractable wheels for rolling on.
Rohr Industries, Inc.'s Aerotrain was competing at the time with Grumman Aerospace Corp.'s and Garrett Corp.'s vehicles for a contract bid with the U.S. Federal Railroad Administration (the U.S. Department of Transportation ended up taking over the bidding process) which was looking for a successful high-speed ground transportation (HSGT) system. Of the three, Rohr's was a finished design ready for commercial use. The other two HSGT vehicles were still in their experimental phase.
The oil crisis in 1973 would eventually make the Aerotrain very expensive to operate and the death of Jean Bertin (who owned the patents) in 1975 sealed the fate of any future Aerotrain development. And the fact that funding from the UMTA had ceased didn't much help things either. Soon after, TIME Magazine published an article on the fate of Rohr Industries, Inc.

Train in Motion over the James River
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By: voldude123.
Trains never stop on this bridge. I live in this town. I know.

Steam locomotive
daggerwell (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: daggerwell.
Gainsville Midland #203 at the Southeastern Railway Museum

Gare Montparnasse
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
Famous for the derailment on October 22, 1895 of the Granville–Paris Express, which overran the buffer stop and crashed through the wall of the station to the street below.

Walt Disney World Monorail
10xAnyone (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: 10xAnyone.
This is a monorail in Disney World.

Omaha Zoo Railroad
The Omaha Zoo Railroad (OZRR) is the name of the narrow gauge steam train that carries visitors around the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska. The train loads passengers at two stations within the world-class zoo, and also makes a stop at the zoo's Pachyderm Hill exhibit, where guests can exit and re-board at a later time. Trains operate daily from Memorial Day to Labor Day, and on weekends in April, May, September and October weather permitting. The last train each day generally leaves 1 hour before zoo gates close, but hours are often extended due to crowds. Zoo admission or membership is required to enter the zoo, and there is an additional fee to ride the train. Annual ridership of the Omaha Zoo Railroad is over 200,000 people.

Former Bourne Park Tunnel
Drudii (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Drudii.
Bourne Park Tunnel was a railway tunnel on the Elham Valley Railway. Elham Valley Railway was a railway that went through Elham Valley, connecting Folkestone and Canterbury in East Kent in England. The railway operated from 1887 to 1947.
The tunnel was built as the rich man who owned the land didn't want his view from his mansion to be ruined by a railway. Since he had a lot of money the tunnel was built.
During WWII the railway was closed to passengers and the military used it for transporting military cargo, but Bourne Park Tunnel had been used to store a massive Railway Gun called Boche Buster. The gun could fire 1.4 ton shells over a 12 mile distance.
Today the two tunnel portals have been blocked by a metal fence and the trackbed in the cuttings on both sides of the tunnel are overgrown.

Peacekeeper Missile Rail Garrison Car
On Dec. 19, 1986, the White House announced President Ronald Reagan’s approval to develop a rail garrison system for basing part of the Peacekeeper Intercontinental Ballistic Missile force. To increase survivability of this force, 50 Peacekeepers would be deployed in existing Minuteman silos and 50 more would be mounted on 25 USAF trains, two per train. Each train would consist of two locomotives, two security cars, two missile launch cars housing the missiles, one launch control car, one fuel car and one maintenance car. Each launch car carried one Peacekeeper ICBM, in a launch tube that could be elevated to fire the missile from the bed of the car. The trains were parked in shelters located on USAF Strategic Air Command bases throughout the continental United States, with the missiles on continuous alert. When necessary, the trains could be dispersed onto the nation’s rail network, making it extremely difficult for an enemy to target and destroy them. Development of the rail garrison deployment system was terminated in 1991 as Cold War tensions eased.
Major contractors for the rail garrison system were Boeing Aerospace Corp., Westinghouse Marine Division and Rockwell International Autonetics. Overall body length of the launch car is 87 feet. Fully loaded, it would weigh more than 520,000 pounds.
This prototype launch car was delivered to the museum in 1994.

Landsdown Train Ferry (now sunken)
Pdunn (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Pdunn.

Caboose at Bluemont Junction
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
As of 1912 Bluemont Junction served as the hub of the multi-line Washington & Old Dominion Railway. One line ran between Georgetown and Great Falls. The other was the former Southern Railway branch between Alexandria and Bluemont, Virginia.
To serve commuters from the Virginia suburbs and vacationers traveling from the city to resort towns in western Loudoun County, the W&OD's owners moved the eastern passenger terminal from downtown Alexandria to Georgetown. Much freight traffic, however, still moved in and out of Alexandria. All eastbound and westbound trains, whether they carried people or freight, now passed through Bluemont Junction.

Ryongchon disaster (Train wreck)
Rene73 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Rene73.

Former Allhallows-on-Sea Railway Station
Drudii (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Drudii.
Date opened: 16.5.1932
Location: At the end of Avery Way on the south side
Company on opening: Southern Railway
Date closed to passengers: 4.12.1961
Date closed completely: 4.12.1961
Company on closing: British Railways (Southern Region)
Present state: Demolished - the site is now a residential Park Home Estate known as Kingsmead Park Allhallows. Although the station has been demolished the listed water tank still stands amongst the homes.
County: Kent

Pullman railcar built into a houseboat
HGTV recently featured the Railroad Houseboat shown above as one of their Extreme Homes. Among the more than 500 houseboats of various shapes, sizes and styles clustered off the coast of Sausalito CA, the Railroad Houseboat really goes off the rails design-wise. The owners of the 2,000-square-foot home managed to transform a 19th century Pullman car into a floating wonder while carefully preserving and re-working as much of the original accoutrements as possible.

Railroad cars converted into gift shops
milwhcky (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: milwhcky.
Part of the Volant Village shopping area, featuring dozens of Amish-themed gift shops and restaurants.

Former Killin Railway Station
Killin Station was a small railway station in the Scottish town of Killin. The station was part of the Killin Railway that was a small extension going from Killin Junction, through Killin Station and stopped at Loch Tay Station. Killin Station opened 1st April 1886 and closed 1st November 1965. The small Killin Railway connected to the Callander & Oban Railway at Killin Junction, but when the Callander & Oban Railway closed in 1965 also marked the closure of the Killin Railway.
What's left today:
The single platform and three sidings have all been demolished. A toilet block now stands on the site of the platform and a small walk and cycle path now follows the trackbed.

Rail car loading ramps for new cars

Water Valley Casey Jones Railroad Museum

Experimental Jet-powered Maglev Locomotive
I can't find any reference to this vehicle. I called the museum and talked to Glen and he says that this was used at the government test track ten miles east and tested for the Japanese and French government.

Mount Washington Cog Railway
World's first mountain-climbing cog railway.

Illinois Central RR #1894 (3525)
WacoKidd110 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: WacoKidd110.
Baldwin Locomotive Works built steam locomotive, 0-8-0 configuration

Former St. Mary's Underground Station
St. Mary's station was an underground station on the London Underground. The station served on the District and Metropolitan lines. The station was located between Whitechapel and Aldgate East stations in East London.
St. Mary's station opened 3rd March 1884 and closed 30th April 1938. The station was closed as a decision of opening the nearby Aldgate East.
What's left today:
Some remains of the platforms, corridors and footbridge at the station still remain at track level. The station building at ground level was badly damaged during the Blitz and later demolished. A hotel now occupies the site of the station building.
A video made by the BBC showing you what's left of the station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa0VtPj036c

Acela Express
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By: boothy443.

WWI Era 14-in. Rail Gun
AlbinoFlea (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: AlbinoFlea.
www.history.navy.mil describes this as a:
14-inch naval railway gun, one of only eight built at the Washington Navy Yard for use during Europe in World War I
From www.worldwar1.com:
Rail presented the perfect transport and firing platform for land based naval ordnance. The gun could be moved relatively quickly along the rail system and the recoil could be dispersed by allowing the carriage to hurtle down the tracks (sometimes up to 100 feet). In some cases, a piece of curved siding was actually used to aim the gun. These guns could fire up to thirty miles and were capable of reaching far into the enemy’s rear positions.

Hinton Train Collision
KRL (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: KRL.
23 people were killed when a freight train and a passenger train collided here on 8 February 1986.
More info an picture at links below:

Former Mark Lane Underground Station (Station Building)
Mark Lane Station was a station on the London Underground. The station was served by the Circle and District Line. The station opened 6th October 1884 and closed 4th February 1967. The station was replaced by Tower Hill station, which is still active.
What's left today:
The station building at ground level still stands, but is now used as a bar. The southern entrance to the station has been opened as a pedestrian walkway under the road. Only one platform (eastbound) still remains, as the other platform was demolished as changes to the track was being made. The eastbound platform can still be accessed, but only for people working on the tracks. If you use the pedestrian walkway you can see a security door with warning signs on it. The door leads to the remains of the station at track level.

Miami Metro Zoo Monorail
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.

Canadian Pacific Railroad #5361
Canadian Locomotive Co. built steam locomotive, 2-8-2 configuration

Disney World's Monorail

White pass & Yukon Route rotary snowplow
White Pass and Yukon Route Rotary Snow Plow No.1. Built in 1899, retired in 1964, restored in 1995, now sees occasional use clearing snow.

Tiny Town Railroad
Tiny town was created at the site of the Denver-Leadville stagecoach stop in a scenic mountain canyon southwest of Denver in 1915. That's when moving-company owner George Turner began constructing one-sixth-sized buildings with a turn- of-the-century flavor to delight his young daughter. In 1920 the town was opened to the public. In just five years, it became one of Colorado's top attractions.
By 1939, the "World Famous" Tiny Town Railway was in operation. By then Tiny Town was creating thousands of special memories for kids of all ages.
But the historic town was not without its setbacks of fires, floods and changing economic times that often kept this special place on the edge of extinction.
So in 1988, volunteers adopted the resurrection of Tiny Town as a civic, charitable project. Individuals from the entire state refurbished original buildings, created new structures and got the railroad up and running again.
The Tiny Town Foundation was created in 1990 to establish Tiny Town as a not-for-profit effort and ensure the cherished village would never be threatened again. Each year the foundations has been proud to donate a portion of the proceeds to various area charities.

NJT River LINE train
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By: boothy443.

Remains of a burned out Transport Museum - Oct 18, 2005

B&O: Ellicott City Station

Seashore Trolley Museum
The Seashore Trolley Museum was founded in 1939 with one open trolley car, No. 31 from the Biddeford & Saco Railroad Company. Over the years thousands of members have followed the founding fathers by helping the Museum grow to be the premier electric railway museum in the world. Today, our collection contains over 250 transit vehicles, most of them trolleys, from all over the United States, Canada, and many other countries. We are the oldest, and largest electric railway museum in the world.

7000 foot long train

Schwebebahn Wuppertal
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.
The Schwebebahn Wuppertal is a suspension railway in Wuppertal, Germany.
The suspension railway travels along a route 13.3 kilometres long, about 12 metres above the surface of the river Wupper between Oberbarmen and Sonnborner Straße.

Former Glasgow Botanic Gardens Railway Station
Botanic Gardens Railway Station was a railway station in Glasgow, Scotland that was under the Botanic Gardens. The station was part of the Glasgow Central Line and was re-opened as part of the Caledonian Railway. The station closed (the first time) due to wartime enconomy. The station closed the 2nd time due to low passenger services.
The station opened 10th August 1896, closed 1st January 1917. The station re-opened 1st June 1919 and closed once again 2nd February 1939. The railway was still active and trains passed the closed station. The railway offically closed 5th October 1964.
Today the station is hidden underground and is overgrown, but can only be entered if you go through the old tunnel portals (both overgrown). The station platforms are still there, but as said before overgrown. The staircases leading up to the station building have been bricked. The station building was destroyed by a fire in 1970 and has since been demolished. Both tunnel portals have been blocked as the station area is too dangerous and has a chance of crumbling. Today the sight is explored by urban explorers.
A video by urban explorers "Abandoned Scotland" visiting the station:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCJnCuT8u00

Maricopa Live Steamers Railroad Heritage Preservation Society scale train park
The Maricopa Live Steamers Railroad Heritage Preservation Society is dedicated to preserving the heritage of railroading and offers a scale model railroad park with over seven miles of track.
They offer free train rides every Sunday between noon and 5 p.m. (except June through August) on four different 30-minute rides over more than seven miles of 7.5-inch track on one of the largest club railroads in the country!

Southern Pacific steam locomotive 2521
daggerwell (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: daggerwell.
Yuma Crossing National Historic Park.
Built in 1907 in Philadelphia this locomotive pulled passenger and freight trains an estimated 2.5 million miles.
# 2521 was donated to the City of Yuma by Southern Pacific in 1957. (link)

Ammunition train
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Leaving (or entering) the Longtown weapon depot

Kyoto City Tram No.28
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Western Pacific California Zephyr observation car
This railroad car was parked here for a year. I'm not sure what this facility is but there often seems to be private railroad cars parked here.
Before Amtrak commenced operation, California Zephyr (the CZ, or "Silver Lady") was a passenger train operated jointly by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) and Western Pacific Railroad (WP), along almost the same route. The CB&Q, D&RGW and WP inaugurated "The most talked about train in America" on March 19, 1949. It was the first passenger train in regular operations in North America to use dome cars, and was purposely scheduled so that her patrons passed through the most spectacular scenery in the daylight.

Santa Fe Southern Railway
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Experience the subtle beauty of the high desert while riding in comfort on vintage rail cars. The almost ghost-town of Lamy awaits you!

Camouflaged train
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Not a very good camouflage, cause if it had been good, I would never have been able to see this train. CQFD

Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad at Unity Depot

LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard steam engine
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Number 4468 Mallard is a London and North Eastern Railway Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive built at Doncaster, England in 1938. While in other respects a relatively typical member of its class, it is historically significant for being the holder of the official world speed record for steam locomotives.
Normally it's located at York Railway Museum, but here at Didcot Railway Center it's as special guest train.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A4_4468_Mallard
Left of the Mallard is a GWR 2-6-0 engine no. 5322 from 1917.

Detroit People Mover
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The Detroit People Mover is a 2.9 mile (4.6 km) automated people mover system which operates a single-track, one-way loop through downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. It uses Bombardier Advanced Rapid Transit technology and the cars are unmanned.

Train crossing the Rio Grande
From New Mexico into Texas at El Paso.

Tampa Airport Monorail
The Monorail was installed in 1991 for transportation between the parking garage and different Airsides. It was the first monorail in that cars are completely computer operated.

Rail car on turntable

Helicopters and Trains
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At least four helicopters are visible at this train depot near Abu Kamal, Syria

Vancouver Amtrak Station
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Vancouver, Washington is the third busiest Amtrak station in Washington, USA. It is a unique, two-sided station situated in a "wye", where passengers board the Empire Builder on the southeast side of the station while the Coast Starlight and Cascades are boarded on the northwest side of the station. The station building is now open after extensive interior renovations.
The Amtrak depot is a popular area for railfans to congregate and is a busy railroad junction in the Pacific Northwest. The depot sits within the wye between the BNSF Fallbridge and Seattle subdivisions and is within sight of the southern part of the Vancouver yard. There is free parking around the depot and it is rare that there isn't at least one railfan hanging around taking photographs or just watching trains. In addition to the Amtrak passenger trains, there are also many freight trains operated by BNSF Railway, Union Pacific Railroad and Portland & Western Railroad. BNSF and Union Pacific trains often include locomotives from other railroads of the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Danbury Railroad Museum

SNCF regional trains
SNCF (Société Nationale des Chemins de fer français) (French National Railway) is a French public enterprise. Its functions include operation of rail services for passengers and freight, and maintenance and signalling of rail infrastructure owned by RFF (Réseau Ferré de France). It employs about 180,000 people. The rail network consists of about 32,000 km of route, of which 1,800 km is high-speed line and 14,500 km electrified. About 14,000 trains are operated daily.

Baltimore Light Rail
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Stopped at the Timonium Fairgrounds station.

Gold Coast Railroad Museum

Cliffside Railroad 2-6-2 #110 and Red River and Gulf 4-4-0 #104
Red Gulf and Cliffside are both steamtrains on the Stone Mountain Sceninc Railroad.

Military vehicles on rail cars at Fort Campbell
Military unit from Fort Campbell.