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Micheline (railcar)
The Micheline was a family of quiet, comfortable rubber-tyred railcars built by Michelin from 1929 onward, serving French main lines and colonies from the 1930s into the 1950s.
Michigan Central Station
Michigan Central Station, also known as Michigan Central Depot, is a former passenger rail depot in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood that served as the city's main station from 1913 to 1988.
Midland Main Line
The Midland Main Line (MML) is a UK railway running from London St Pancras to Sheffield via Leicester and Derby, opened in 1870 and operated by East Midlands Railway.
Midland Railway Paget locomotive
The Midland Railway Paget locomotive was a one-off experimental 2-6-2 steam locomotive, numbered 2299, built secretly at Derby in 1908 to Cecil Paget's design and scrapped in 1918 after valve-gear failures.
Mikasa Tetsudou Mura
Mikasa Tetsudou Mura (三笠鉄道村, Mikasa Railway Village) is a 1987-opened railway preservation park in Mikasa, Hokkaido, commemorating the 1882 Horonai Railway, Hokkaido's first, with the Mikasa Railway Memorial Museum, running steam locomotive S-304, and SL driving experiences.
Mildmay line
The Mildmay line is the blue London Overground service running from Richmond and Clapham Junction to Stratford, named in 2024 in honor of Mildmay Hospital.
Milwaukee Road
The Milwaukee Road was the common name of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, a Class I railroad running from Chicago to Puget Sound from 1847 until 1985.
Milwaukee Road 261
Milwaukee Road 261 is an ALCO-built 4-8-4 "Northern" steam locomotive of 1944, retired in the mid-1950s, restored to operation in 1993, and running Upper Midwest excursions since.
Mineral wagon
A mineral wagon is a British railway open wagon built to carry coal, stone, and metal ores in bulk, with millions built, most of them coal wagons.
Ministry of Railways (रेल मंत्रालय) (India)
The Ministry of Railways, known in Hindi as रेल मंत्रालय, is India's union ministry responsible for Indian Railways, the state-owned network carrying over 17.52 million passengers daily.
Minsk Metro
The Minsk Metro (Мінскі метрапалітэн) is the rapid transit system serving Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Opened in 1984, it operates three lines with 36 stations over about 45 km.
Missouri Pacific Railroad
The Missouri Pacific Railroad, known as the MoPac, was a Class I railroad radiating from St. Louis across the South and Southwest until its 1997 merger into Union Pacific.
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (M-K-T or MKT), nicknamed the Katy, linked Missouri and Kansas with Texas and was the first railroad to enter Texas from the north, in 1872.
Mizuho (train)
Mizuho (みずほ) is a limited-stop Shinkansen service operated by JR West and JR Kyushu from Shin-Osaka to Kagoshima-Chuo, started in 2011 as the route's fastest category.
MLW M-420
The MLW M-420 is a four-axle, 2,000-horsepower diesel-electric road switcher built by Montreal Locomotive Works between 1973 and 1977, chiefly for Canadian National. It was the first locomotive with the wide-nosed Canadian comfort cab.
Modern Locomotives Illustrated
Modern Locomotives Illustrated was a British bi-monthly railway magazine, published from 2008 to 2021, with each issue devoted to one class of modern diesel or electric locomotives.
Monorail
A monorail is a railway in which vehicles run on or hang from a single beam, usually elevated, in straddle or suspended forms, from airport shuttles to urban transit like the Wuppertal Schwebebahn.
Montparnasse derailment
The Montparnasse derailment, also called the Montparnasse train crash, was an 1895 railway accident in which the Granville–Paris Express overran Gare Montparnasse and fell nose-first onto the street below.
Montréal Maine and Atlantic Railway
The Montréal Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) was a Class II regional freight railroad operating in Maine, Vermont, and Quebec from January 2003 until its bankruptcy in 2013.
Montreal Metro
The Montreal Metro (Métro de Montréal) is the rubber-tired rapid transit system serving Montreal, Quebec, inaugurated in 1966 and operated by the STM, with 68 stations on four lines.
Moorgate tube crash
The Moorgate tube crash, also called the Moorgate rail crash, occurred on 28 February 1975 when a London Underground train overran Moorgate station, killing 43 people.
Moscow Metro (Московский метрополитен)
The Moscow Metro (Московский метрополитен) is Moscow, Russia's rapid transit system, opened on 15 May 1935 and now one of the world's busiest, with about 2.5 billion passengers a year.
Motive power depot
A motive power depot, also known as a traction maintenance depot or engine shed, is a railway facility where locomotives and trains are serviced, maintained, and stabled.
Movement authority
A movement authority is the railway signaling permission for a train to run to a specific location, telling it how far it may travel and how fast.
Moving block signalling
Moving block signaling is a railway train-control method in which safe separation between trains is computed continuously from each train's exact position rather than fixed track sections.
Moynihan Train Hall
Moynihan Train Hall is the Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road concourse at New York City's Penn Station, opened in January 2021 inside the Farley Post Office Building.
MP 05
The MP 05 is a driverless, rubber-tyred electric multiple-unit metro train built by Alstom for the Paris Métro, ordered by the RATP in 2005 to automate Line 1.
MP 59
The MP 59 was a series of rubber-tyred trains built for the Paris Métro, ordered in 1959, in service from 1963 until 2024, last on line 11.
MP 73
The MP 73 is a rubber-tyred electric multiple unit ordered by the RATP in 1973 for the Paris Métro, running on Line 6 from 1974 to 2026.
MRS Logística
MRS Logística is a Brazilian bulk-freight railway created in RFFSA's 1996 privatization, carrying 28% of Brazil's rail freight, mostly iron ore to export ports in Rio de Janeiro.