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F59PHI
The EMD F59PH is a four-axle B-B diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division from 1988 to 1994. A variant, the F59PHI, was produced from 1994 to 2001. The F59PH was originally built for GO Transit commuter operation in the Toronto region. Metrolink in Southern California also purchased a fleet for its 1992 launch. The streamlined F59PHI was designed for Amtrak California intercity service. A total of 72 F59PH and 83 F59PHI locomotives were built. F59PH Between May 1988 and May 1994, 72 F59PH locomotives were built for two commuter transit railroads: GO Transit of Toronto and Metrolink of Los Angeles. Based on the GP59, the locomotives had a turbocharged EMD 12-710G3A, a 12-cylinder, two-stroke Diesel engine (prime mover). Head end power was supplied by a separate diesel generator. GO Transit began retiring its F59PH locomotives in 2008 in favor of newer MPI MPXpress locomotives. Most were purchased by other operators including Exo (10 locom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity Railway Express
The Trinity Railway Express (TRE) is a commuter rail service in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Texas, United States. It was established by an interlocal agreement between Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and Trinity Metro. Each transit authority owns a 50% stake in the joint rail project and contractor Herzog Transit Services operates the line. The TRE began operating in December 1996. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of , making it the List of United States commuter rail systems by ridership, seventeenth most-ridden commuter rail system in the United States. Before 2006, the TRE was typically shown as a green line on DART maps and therefore was sometimes referred to as the "Green Line," but this was not an official designation. In 2006, DART chose green as the color for its new light rail route, the . Since 2006, the TRE has been shown as a dark blue line on DART maps. History Named after the Trinity River (Texas), Trinity River, the West Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piedmont (train)
The ''Piedmont'' (also known as the ''Piedmont Service'') is a regional passenger train operated by Amtrak and the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), running four round trips daily between Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina. It is a sister train to the '' Carolinian'', which runs from Charlotte to New York City. The ''Piedmont'' route is coextensive with the southern end of the ''Carolinian,'' largely paralleling Interstate 85. It operates along the western portion of the state-owned North Carolina Railroad, which runs from Charlotte to Morehead City. Operations began in May 1995. NCDOT owns the rolling stock used on the ''Piedmont'', unlike the ''Carolinian'', which uses Amtrak rolling stock. Both trains are marketed by NCDOT under the NC By Train brand. In fiscal year 2023, ''Piedmont'' carried 289,955 passengers, a 36.4% increase from FY2022. This is an increase from pre-COVID-19 pandemic ridership, with 214,218 passengers carried in FY2019. Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capitol Corridor
The ''Capitol Corridor'' is a passenger train route in Northern California operated by Amtrak between San Jose, California, San Jose, in the Bay Area, and Auburn, California, Auburn, in the Sacramento Valley. The route is named after the two points most trains operate between, San Jose (which was the first state capital of California) and Sacramento, California, Sacramento (the current capital, with the California State Capitol, State Capitol building). The route runs roughly parallel to Interstate 880 (California), I-880 and Interstate 80 in California, I-80. Some limited trips run between Oakland, California, Oakland and San Jose. A single daily round trip runs between San Jose and Auburn, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada. ''Capitol Corridor'' trains started in 1991. Like all Amtrak California, regional trains in California, the ''Capitol Corridor'' is operated by a joint powers authority. The Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority (CCJPA) is gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exo Commuter Rail
Exo commuter rail (reporting marks EXO) is a system of five Radial route, radial commuter rail services serving the Greater Montreal area, operated by Alstom, using trackage owned by Exo (public transit), Exo as well as by the Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City. Exo's commuter trains are its highest-profile division. It uses Diesel-electric transmission, diesel-electric push-pull trains. The Mont-Saint-Hilaire and Mascouche lines run on Canadian National Railway, Canadian National trackage and operate out of Central Station, while the Vaudreuil-Hudson, Saint-Jérôme, and Candiac lines run on Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) trackage and operate out of Lucien-L'Allier (AMT), Lucien L'Allier Train station#Terminus, terminus, beside the historic Windsor Station (Montreal), Windsor Station. The Saint-Jérôme line also runs on CPKC trackage and on Exo's own trackage between Sainte-Thérèse station, Sainte-Thérèse and Saint-Jérôme station, Saint-Jér� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EMD 710
The EMD 710 is a line of diesel engines built by Electro-Motive Diesel (previously General Motors' Electro-Motive Division). The 710 series replaced the earlier EMD 645 series when the 645F series proved to be unreliable in the early 1980s 50-series locomotives which featured a maximum engine speed of 950 rpm.40-series versions of the 645, save the initial teething problems with the 20-645E, which were eventually resolved, proved to be exceptionally reliable. The EMD 710 is a relatively large medium-speed two-stroke diesel engine that has displacement per cylinder, and a maximum engine speed of 900 rpm.Same parts suitable for 1000 rpm speed, yet rated lower because of earlier problems in EMD 645. Factory-fitted governor limits to 900 rpm. In 1951, E. W. Kettering (son of Charles F. Kettering) wrote a paper for the ASME entitled, ''History and Development of the 567 Series General Motors Locomotive Engine'', which goes into great detail about the technical obstacles that were e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amtrak California
Amtrak California is a brand name used by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) Division of Rail for three state-supported Amtrak regional rail routes in Californiathe ''Capitol Corridor'', the ''Pacific Surfliner'', and the ''San Joaquins''and their associated connecting network of Amtrak Thruway transportation services. History The Amtrak, National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) assumed operation of almost all intercity passenger rail in the United States in 1971. Service in California, as in most of the United States, was basic and infrequent. In 1976 California began providing financial assistance to Amtrak. Around 1990, the Caltrans Division of Rail was formed to oversee state-financed rail operations and the brand Amtrak California started appearing on state-supported routes. Prior to that, rail management and oversight at Caltrans was part of the Division of Mass Transportation. The two divisions have since been merged into the Division of R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metra
Metra is the primary commuter rail system in the Chicago metropolitan area serving the city of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs via the Union Pacific Railroad, BNSF Railway, and other railroads. The system operates 243 train station, stations on 11 rail lines. It is the List of United States commuter rail systems by ridership, fourth busiest commuter rail system in the United States by ridership and the largest and busiest commuter rail system outside the New York City metropolitan area. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . The estimated busiest day for Metra ridership occurred on November 4, 2016—the day of the Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series victory rally, with a record 460,000+ passengers. Metra is the descendant of numerous passenger rail services dating to the 1850s. The present system dates to 1974, when the Illinois General Assembly established the Regional Transportation Authority (Illinois), Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MPI MPXpress
The MPI MPXpress is a line of diesel-electric locomotives built by MotivePower (a subsidiary of Wabtec) for commuter rail service. There are five MPXpress models: MP36PH-3S, MP36PH-3C, MP40PH-3C, MP32PH-Q, and MP54AC. MPXpress locomotives were built with a high percentage of re-manufactured parts including diesel engines, major electrical components, trucks, and frames. Cabs, fuel tanks, electronics, HEP package, and other replaceable parts such as wheels and couplers were new when delivered. The re-manufactured components kept the price of locomotives down while providing like-new components with full warranty protection. The new cabs also made the MPXpress the first production passenger locomotive that met U.S. federal crashworthiness requirements. The MPXpress line has kept pace with increasingly stringent EPA locomotive emissions regulations, having provided the first—and in some cases, only—passenger locomotive for each of the four emission levels (tiers) that were sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Carolina Department Of Transportation
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) is responsible for building, repairing, and operating highways, bridges, and other modes of transportation, including ferries in the U.S. state of North Carolina. History The North Carolina Department of Transportation was formed in 1915 as the State Highway Commission. In 1931, the commission was restructured to include a chair and six other members appointed by the governor. It also assumed responsibility for the maintenance of all county roads in the state and all inmates of county jails sentenced to over 60 days incarceration. In 1933, the agency was merged with the state prison system to form the State Highway and Public Works Commission. In 1941 the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) was formed under the NCDoT by an act of the North Carolina General Assembly, General Assembly. The Executive Organization Act of 1971 combined the state highway commission and the DMV to form the NC Department of Transportation and Highway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cab Unit
In North American railroad terminology, a cab unit is a railroad locomotive with its own cab and controls. "Carbody unit" is a related term, which may be either a cabless booster unit controlled from a linked cab unit, or a cab unit that contains its own controls. Characteristics With both body styles, a bridge-truss design framework is used to make the body a structural element of the locomotive. The body extends the full width and length of the locomotive. The service walkways are inside the body. Carbody units, gaining rigidity from the body trusswork, require less structural weight to achieve rigidity than do locomotives with non-structural bodies. For that reason, carbody construction was favored to increase the power-to-weight ratio for early diesel locomotives, before the power available with diesel technology was increased. Recent years have seen carbody construction revived in the quest for greater fuel efficiency with passenger locomotives. The full-width body ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cab Car
A control car, cab car (North America), control trailer, or driving trailer (UK, Ireland, Australia and India) is a non-powered rail vehicle from which a train can be operated. As dedicated vehicles or regular passenger cars, they have one or two driver compartments with all the controls and gauges required to remotely operate the locomotive, including exterior locomotive equipment such as horns, bells, ploughs, and lights. They also have communications and safety systems such as GSM-R or European Train Control System (ETCS). Control cars enable push-pull operation when located on the end of a train opposite its locomotive by allowing the train to reverse direction at a terminus without moving the locomotive or turning the train around. Control cars can carry passengers, baggage, and mail, and may, when used together with diesel locomotives, contain an engine-generator set to provide head-end power (HEP). They can also be used with a power car or a railcar. European railway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
