(Have googled: Russian railways / trains 1890, Russian railways / trains schedules 1890s, Russian railway carriages, and I've got a copy of Bradshaw's Guide to the Continent 1913. Plus St Petersburg, bridge, cross, coachman etc ( Read more... )

I need to know how a couple of outlaws would have identified a specific train. I've been told they'd likely know the locomotive, but I have no idea if they'd know the number -- and how? -- or if locomotives actually had nicknames or something. This would have been the Union Pacific line, in Southern Wyoming, around 1875. If it helps, it's a special ( Read more... )

Where/When: England (and France) in 1913

Googled: "uk train routes history 1913", "trainspotting early 20th century", "trainspotting forums uk", "bradshaw train schedule 1913" and a bunch of other permutations.

I'm thinking of writing a story wherein a young couple decides to travel from the West Midlands to Paris for a honeymoon, and I'd like to ( Read more... )

Setting: secondary world deiselpunk ( Read more... )

[EDIT: Wow, thanks for all the responses! Looks like I've got my research cut out for me, but this is an awesome starting point ( Read more... )

Item: 1943 steam locomotive troop train with corresponding rail cars ( Read more... )

I'm working on a story which requires extensive traveling across Europe in trains with sleeing cars, and I'm searching for the routes they may take. Most of the lists of routes I've found so far are restricted to within a country. How would one take trains with sleeping cars between these places, assuming that's possible ( Read more... )

The scenario my characters are going to find themselves in (nano plot) is basically that they are travelling across America in the 1950s by train, in the winter, and there is an accident.

Now what I want to happen is they are travelling through a mountainous area, there is either a landslide or the tracks give way and it takes help a couple of days ( Read more... )

This is a rather specific question that I'm not sure can be answered unless I'm extremely lucky. My question is: How long would it take to travel by train from Kovel', Ukrain to Lublin, Poland?
And along those lines, what do the interiors of trains look like?

EDIT: Thanks for the quick info.

Okay, I give up. I googled and wikied and the only things that looked like they might be able to give me the answer were images too freakin' small to read the text.

So on a locomotive, a passenger car on a turn-of-the-century era train, what's the parts of the wheels that make the infamous clackity-clack sound? I'm assuming it's the bar between ( Read more... )