Image 4A cast iron fishbelly edge rail manufactured by Outram at the Butterley Company for the Cromford and High Peak Railway in 1831; these are smooth edge rails for wheels with flanges. (from Rail transport)
Image 26Bardon Hill box in England (seen here in 2009) is a Midland Railway box dating from 1899, although the original mechanical lever frame has been replaced by electrical switches. (from Rail transport)
Image 27The Polish transport company Bedmet uses a special vehicle to transport two large silos. (from Road transport)
Image 33Interior view of a high-speed bullet train, manufactured in China (from Rail transport)
Image 34According to Eurostat and the European Railway Agency, the fatality risk for passengers and occupants on European railways is 28 times lower when compared with car usage (based on data by EU-27 member nations, 2008–2010). (from Rail transport)
Image 35The Great North Road near High gate on the approach to London before turnpiking. The highway was deeply rutted and spread onto adjoining land. (from Road transport)
Image 36Modes of road transport in Dublin, 1929 (from Road transport)
Image 37European rail subsidies in euros per passenger-km for 2008 (from Rail transport)
Image 38Arizona - North America - Southwest - Interstate Highway System (4893585908) (from Road transport)
Image 39San Diego Trolley over Interstate 8 (from Road transport)
Image 51Bronocice pot with the earliest known image of a wheeled vehicle in the world, found in Poland (from Transport)
Image 52Customized motorcycle to maximize load capacity. Mobility is important for motorcycles, which are primarily used for transporting light cargo in urban areas. (from Transport)
Image 53A 16th-century minecart, an early example of unpowered rail transport (from Rail transport)
Image 67An ambulance from World War I (from Transport)
Image 68German soldiers in a railway car on the way to the front in August 1914. The message on the car reads Von München über Metz nach Paris ("From Munich via Metz to Paris"). (from Rail transport)
Image 69Bridges, such as Golden Gate Bridge, allow roads and railways to cross bodies of water. (from Transport)
The Glacier Express from Zermatt to St. Moritz (or Davos Platz [Summer only]) in Switzerland is one of the great train journeys in the world. It is not an "express" in the sense of being a high-speed train (it isn't) but rather in the sense that it provides a one-seat ride from end to end, even though the train travels over several different railroad lines; reputedly it is the slowest "express" in the world. The trip on the Glacier Express is a 7½ hour railway journey across 291 bridges, through 91 tunnels and across the Oberalp Pass at 2,033 metres in altitude. The entire line is metre gauge, and large portions of it use a rack-and-pinion system both for ascending steep grades and to control the descent of the train on the back side of those grades.
... that a section of Mississippi Highway 489 was designated as the Jason Boyd Memorial Highway to commemorate the MDOT superintendent who was killed while removing debris from the road?
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