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Führersonderzug
The Führersonderzug, also called the "Hitler train", was Adolf Hitler's Deutsche Reichsbahn special train, serving as his mobile headquarters during the Second World War from September 1939 under the codenames "Amerika" and "Brandenburg".
Fuxing (复兴) (train)
Fuxing (复兴), also called Fuxing Hao or China Standardized EMU, is a Chinese high-speed train family operated by China Railway since 2017, running at 350 km/h.
Gallery car
Gallery car is a bilevel commuter railroad passenger car, first constructed by the Budd Company for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in 1950, and is still used on Chicago commuter services.
Galloping Goose (railcar)
The Galloping Goose is a series of seven gasoline-powered railcars built by the bankrupt Rio Grande Southern Railroad from automobile bodies, operated on its narrow gauge Colorado line until 1952.
Garratt locomotive
A Garratt, or Beyer-Garratt, is an articulated steam locomotive with its boiler and cab slung between two separate engine units, patented by Herbert William Garratt in 1907.
Gas turbine locomotive
A gas turbine locomotive is a locomotive powered by a gas turbine instead of a diesel engine, most often driving a generator that feeds electric traction motors.
GE AC4400CW
The GE AC4400CW, often written AC44CW, is a 4,400-horsepower six-axle diesel-electric freight locomotive built by GE from 1993 to 2004, GE's first with AC traction and sold to over 2,800 units.
GE AC44C6M
The GE AC44C6M is a rebuilt diesel-electric freight locomotive made by converting older GE Dash 9 units from DC to AC traction, principally for Norfolk Southern since 2015.
GE AC6000CW
The GE AC6000CW, also known as the GE C60AC, is a 6,000-horsepower, six-axle AC-traction diesel-electric locomotive built by GE Transportation from 1995 to 2001, bought in quantity only by Union Pacific and CSX.
GE ES44AC
The GE ES44AC is a six-axle, 4,400-horsepower AC-traction diesel-electric freight locomotive in GE's Evolution Series, successor to the AC4400CW, built from 2002 to 2019 with about 3,700 units sold.
GE Evolution Series
The GE Evolution Series, also known as the Evolution locomotive or GEVO, is a family of six-axle diesel-electric freight locomotives built by GE Transportation since 2005.
GE Genesis
GE Genesis is a series of passenger diesel-electric locomotives built by GE Transportation between 1992 and 2001 for Amtrak, Metro-North, and VIA Rail, with over 300 units produced.
Geared steam locomotive
A geared steam locomotive sends cylinder power to its wheels through a line shaft and reduction gears instead of drive rods, developed in America for logging and mining.
Geismar (company)
Geismar, formally Geismar Rail Industry Technologies & Services (GRITS) since 2025, is a French manufacturer of railway track installation and maintenance equipment founded in 1924.
George Pullman
George Mortimer Pullman (1831–1897) was an American industrialist who designed the Pullman sleeping car, founded the Pullman Palace Car Company, and built the company town of Pullman.
German locomotive numbering and classification
German locomotive numbering and classification, also known as the DRG renumbering plan, is the system German state railways use to assign class and running numbers to locomotives.
German Train Drivers' Union
The German Train Drivers' Union (Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer), founded in 1867, is Germany's oldest occupational union, representing most locomotive drivers and known for strikes that won it an independent collective agreement in 2008.
Glasgow Shields Road TMD
Glasgow Shields Road TMD, also called Shields Depot, is a railway electric traction maintenance depot in Glasgow, Scotland, opened in 1967 to serve the electrified suburban network.
Glossary of rail transport terms
A glossary of rail transport terms, also known as rail terminology, defines the vocabulary of railways, including rolling stock, bogie, gauge, and the railroad-versus-railway regional split.
Golden Arrow (train)
The Golden Arrow was a luxury all-Pullman boat train from London Victoria to the Channel ports, linking with the French Flèche d'Or to Paris from 1929.
Gondola (rail)
A gondola is an open-top freight railcar with fixed sides and end doors or solid floor, ranking second to boxcars in ubiquity and serving heavy industry.
Great Western Railway absorbed locomotives
Great Western Railway absorbed locomotives were engines of independent British companies taken over by the GWR between the 1870s and the 1923 Grouping, then renumbered into its own series.
GWR 4073 Class
The GWR 4073 Class, or Castle class, was a class of express passenger steam locomotives designed by Charles Collett for the Great Western Railway, built from 1923.
GWR 4900 Class 5972 Olton Hall
GWR 4900 Class 5972 Olton Hall is a preserved Great Western Railway Hall Class 4-6-0 steam locomotive, built at Swindon Works in 1937 and withdrawn by British Railways in 1963.
GWR 5700 Class
The GWR 5700 Class, often written 57xx, is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotives designed by Charles Collett for the Great Western Railway and built from 1929 to 1950.
GWR locomotive numbering and classification
The GWR locomotive numbering and classification system, used by the Great Western Railway until its 1948 nationalisation, evolved from simple sequential numbering to hundred-number blocks.
GWR railcars
The GWR railcars, nicknamed the "flying bananas", were 38 streamlined diesel railcars built for the Great Western Railway between 1934 and 1941, serving into the 1960s.
Handcar
A handcar, also known as a pump trolley, is a small railroad vehicle powered by passengers pumping a lever, used mainly for track inspection and repair.
Hanomag
Hanomag (Hannoversche Maschinenbau AG) was a German engineering company in Hannover founded in 1835, known for steam locomotives, early small cars, tractors, trucks, and construction machinery.
Heaton TMD
Heaton TMD, also known as the Heaton TrainCare Centre, is a railway maintenance depot in Newcastle upon Tyne operated by Northern Trains, opened by the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway in 1847.