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The Class 379 electric multiple-unit train is a member of Bombardier Transportation's Electrostar family, although a number of its features are derived from the successor Aventra family. [16] Unlike the Class 317 units that the Class 379 replaced, it is equipped with regenerative braking to reduce energy consumption. [ 16 ]
The first train set released was titled 'Plastic Railroad Set', which featured a plastic steam locomotive and three freight cars to be moved by hand, and a figure 8 of light blue plastic railway track. In October 1961, the range was expanded into a battery-operated electric toy train system where the trains were fitted with miniature motors.
Amtrak Avelia Liberty trainset operating under the 25 Hz traction power system near Claymont, Delaware. Amtrak's 25 Hz traction power system is a traction power network for the southern portion of the Northeast Corridor (NEC), the Keystone Corridor, and several branch lines between New York City and Washington D.C.
1964 - Shinkansen - Bullet train; 1969 - Budd Metroliner - The retired New York–Washington Metroliner service, first operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad and later by Amtrak; 1978 - British Rail Class 370 - APT-P; 1988 - Fiat FS Class ETR 450 - Pendolino; 2000 - Siemens Velaro - ICE 3; 2007 - British Rail Class 395 / Hitachi A-train - Javelin.
Lionel started the postwar period in 1945 with a train set introducing remote-control uncoupling. The locomotive was the 224, a pre-war carryover 2-6-2 Prairie type. In 1947, Lionel produced a model of the Pennsylvania Railroad's GG1. One year later, Lionel began production of their famous Santa Fe F3. As a direct descendant of the pre-war 763E ...
The train sets used blue rails, and the first train sets were simply push-along. Set number 115 introduced 4.5 volt battery-operated trains (initially the battery box was handheld, but train sets soon contained a railcar that carried the battery box), and train sets numbered 720 (1969) and up operated on 12-volt electrified rails, introduced in ...