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2014

The following items were used in the Did you know section of Wikipedia's Main page in 2014.

... that early in World War II, Winston Churchill took refuge in the Barn?
... that the 1996 train collision in Silver Spring, Maryland, led to the creation of the first comprehensive federal rules for passenger car design in the United States?
... that future Amtrak President Joseph H. Boardman, while Commissioner of the New York State Department of Transportation, accused the railroad of stealing his Turboliners?
... that Morden station is at one end of a 27.8-kilometre (17.3 mi) long tunnel, the longest on the London Underground?
... that higher-speed rail is actually a lower train speed category than high-speed rail?

The High Line at 20th Street

... that the High Line (pictured), once an abandoned elevated railway slated for demolition in New York City, is now a linear park with about 5 million annual visitors?
... that Capital Beltway was one of two park and ride stations built specifically for the high-speed Metroliner passenger train?

Construction of the Neuquén-Cipolletti railway bridge in 1901

... that the Neuquén-Cipolletti railway bridge (pictured) was the first construction project in Argentina to use compressed air?
... that Thornton's Corners GO Station will be built along a rail extension connecting the Canadian National Railway line to the Canadian Pacific Railway line?

The modern Broadbottom Viaduct

... that Broadbottom Viaduct (pictured), originally of wooden construction, was replaced with a wrought iron structure less than 20 years after its completion?
... that a pharmacist, a newspaper publisher, an alcoholism counsellor, and the state Transportation Secretary were among those indicted in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority kickback scandal?

Class 33/2 locomotive

... that shoddy tunnel construction in the 1840s forced the Hastings Line to use a restricted loading gauge and special narrow-bodied trains (Class 33/2 locomotive pictured) until 1986?
... that in 1855 three passengers, believing they had arrived at their destination, fell to their deaths when they stepped from a train that had halted on Dinting Viaduct?
... that the Pacific International was Amtrak's first international passenger train?
... that the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad's Merchants Limited was the last all-parlor car passenger train in the United States?
... that the Union Pacific Railroad's Overland Flyer, which debuted in 1887, was one of the first named passenger trains in the United States?

ITC #300, one of the three streamliners

... that the Illinois Terminal Railroad's Streamliners (pictured) were the last interurbans built in the United States?
... that the Indianapolis Traction Terminal was reputedly the largest interurban terminal ever built?
... that the Illinois Central Railroad's Seminole Limited was the first passenger train to provide year-round service between Chicago, Illinois and Jacksonville, Florida?
... that on its 1856 opening, the Illinois Central Railroad's Great Central Station was the largest building in Chicago?
... that the Meadowlark was the last Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad passenger train to serve Southern Illinois?
... that in the 1990 Back Bay rail accident, Amtrak's Night Owl jumped the track and hit an MBTA commuter train, causing both to jackknife through the tunnel roof to the street above?
... that a special Detroit commuter train transported the CBS production crew from the Renaissance Center to Super Bowl XVI at the Pontiac Silverdome?

Budd SPV-2000

... that despite being designed for the North American commuter rail market, six Budd SPV-2000 railcars (pictured) were sold to ONCF for Hassan II of Morocco's royal train?

Postcard of a Sun Lounge interior

... that the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Sun Lounges (pictured) featured lamps made from driftwood?
... that the first legally recognized strike in Costa Rica was organized by Italian immigrants building railroads?
... that A Railway Collision, one of the first British films to use scale models, was thought to be so realistic that audiences were convinced that it showed a genuine rail disaster?
... that Meldon Viaduct, on Dartmoor in Devon, is one of only two surviving lattice truss railway bridges in Britain?
... that the Iraqi Railway Workers Union was banned in the midst of a 1945 strike?
... that the community of Fruitvale, Tennessee, developed around a railroad switch?
... that the construction of the Deliktaş Tunnel, Turkey's longest railway tunnel, lasted almost four decades?
... that although only 9 miles (14 km) long, the Mann's Creek Railroad serviced 193 beehive coke ovens?
... that Prospect Group's purchase of Illinois Central Railroad in 1989 was part of a plan devised by Edward L. Moyers to return the railroad to profitability?
... that Pensford Viaduct was offered for sale for £1, but no one bought it?

Edward H. Ripley

... that Edward Ripley (pictured) warned Abraham Lincoln about an assassination plot against him the week before he was killed?
... that in the years since the Greenback Depot closed in 1954, it has been used for fertilizer storage, an antique shop, and a boat manufacturer's offices?
... that the only two passenger trains that regularly go through Cleveland Lakefront Station depart/arrive between 1:00 am and 6:00 am?
... that four days after its opening, a train using the Newcastle-Bolgart Railway caused a bushfire?
... that delay of the planned restoration of the ruined Katowice historic train station, which attained monument status in 1975, has led to public protests?
... that the Golden Horn Metro Bridge in Istanbul is a cable-stayed bridge, which has a swing bridge on one side and features a metro station in the middle?
... that Great Central Railway locomotive no. 506, now preserved and restored for display at the Barrow Hill Engine Shed, was named after Eric Butler-Henderson when it entered service in 1919?
... that a two-story railroad worker's home was built for only $800 in 1888?
... that Super Bowl XLVIII has been dubbed the Mass Transit Super Bowl?
... that the Upper Silesian Railway was part of the first rail network connecting Berlin, Vienna, Kraków and Warsaw by the late 1840s?
... that ‪Gare de Dijon-Porte-Neuve‬, currently Dijon's secondary train station, is being prepared to become the city's newest TGV station?
... that the Jammu–Sialkot railway line was permanently closed after the Partition of India?
... that David Jewett Waller was one of the most well-known people in Northeastern Pennsylvania at the time of his death?
... that despite having public support and some land purchased, the Highclere, Kingsclere and Basingstoke Light Railway was never built?
... that at 1,025 route kilometers, Tiruchirappalli forms the second largest division of India's Southern Railway zone?
... that of the 29 listed buildings in Crewe, only one dates from before the arrival of the railway in 1837?
... that Track 61, which previously carried freight to the South Boston Army Base and South Boston Naval Annex, is the proposed location of a new passenger train service?