i remember the song wabash cannonball from before i started kindergarten, which was in 1953. if i recall correctly, the movie boxcar willie was of somewhat more recent vintage. sometime later in the 50s or 60?
I rode this train a while back and it was a great experience. Watch out for all the coal smoke/ambers. Amazing ride.
The longest tunnel in the United Kingdom is the Northern line at 27,800 metres (91,200 ft). This will be superseded in 2021 by the 37,600-metre (123,400 ft) Woodsmith Mine Tunnel in North Yorkshire that will transport polyhalite from North Yorkshire to a port on Teesside.
Would you like an explanation of how the new S stock trains on the district line work.? 2 weeks and 200 pages later. Perhaps I will forget this one. PS, I had better not let the cat out of the bag and mention that they run driverless, or I will be found floating face down in the river.
Despite the fact that it is a large city, their are no railways in Cork. However in Fermoy, 20 miles up the N25, the railway viaduct still exists and Jane watched the WW2 planes flying under it during the filming of The Blue Max.
