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Preserved railway carriages and heritage rolling stock
Preserved railway carriages and heritage rolling stock are historic coaches, brake vehicles, and wagons restored and operated on heritage railways and in museums, cataloged by the RCTS.
Prince Edward Road MRT station
Prince Edward Road MRT station (CC32) is a Circle Line station in Singapore's Shenton Way, opened 12 July 2026 with Keppel and Cantonment to close the Circle Line loop; 30 m deep, ship's-hull maritime design, anticlockwise service terminus from Dhoby Ghaut.
Proposed merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern
The proposed merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern is a pending deal, announced in July 2025, that would create the first single-carrier freight railroad spanning the U.S. coasts.
Prussian G 12
The Prussian G 12, also known as the Württemberg G 12, was a German three-cylinder heavy freight steam locomotive, a wartime standard design built from 1917.
Prussian state railways
The Prussian state railways, or Preußische Staatseisenbahnen, were the state-owned railways of the Kingdom of Prussia. Expanded by nationalization after 1879, they reached 39,030 km in 1912 and became the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1920.
Puffing Billy (locomotive)
Puffing Billy is an early British steam locomotive built in 1813–1814 at Wylam Colliery near Newcastle by William Hedley, and the world's oldest surviving steam locomotive, preserved in London.
Pullman Company
The Pullman Company, founded as the Pullman Palace Car Company by George Pullman in 1867, built luxurious sleeping cars and operated them on railroads across North America.
Pullman Strike
The Pullman Strike, or Pullman Railroad Strike, was an 1894 nationwide railroad strike and boycott in the United States led by Eugene Debs' American Railway Union.
Pune Metro (पुणे मेट्रो)
Pune Metro, also known as Pune Metro Rail (पुणे मेट्रो), is a rapid transit system serving Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad in Maharashtra, India, opened in 2022 with two lines.
Purple Line (Namma Metro)
Purple Line (ನೇರಳೆ ಪಥ), Namma Metro's east–west line in Bengaluru, 43.49 km, 37 stations, Whitefield (Kadugodi) to Challaghatta, operated by BMRCL; opened fully October 9, 2023; busiest corridor, 76-minute end-to-end ride.
Push–pull train
A push–pull train is a passenger train with a locomotive at one end and a driving cab at the other, letting the driver control the locomotive remotely from either end.
Q (New York City Subway service)
The Q, or Brighton Local via Broadway Express, is a New York City Subway service from 96th Street on Second Avenue to Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue, Brooklyn.
Qinghai–Tibet railway
Qinghai–Tibet railway (青藏铁路), the 1,956-km Xining–Golmud–Lhasa line opened July 1, 2006; world's highest railway at 5,072 m Tanggula Pass, crossing roughly 550–632 km of permafrost with active-cooling roadbeds and pressurised oxygen-enriched carriages.
Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway
The Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway is a Canadian freight railway hauling iron ore 418 km from Labrador City to Sept-Îles, Quebec, completed in 1954.
Queensboro Plaza station
Queensboro Plaza is an elevated New York City Subway station in Long Island City, Queens, where the 7, N, and W trains meet near the Queensboro Bridge.
Queensland AC16 class locomotive
The Queensland Railways AC16 class, nicknamed the "Yanks", was twenty 2-8-2 steam locomotives built by Baldwin in the United States in 1943 under Lend-Lease during World War II.
Queensland C17 class locomotive
The Queensland Railways C17 class was a class of 227 superheated 4-8-0 steam locomotives built between 1920 and 1953, the mainstay of the state's steam fleet, and nicknamed the Brown Bombers in its final batch.
Queensland Rail
Queensland Rail, also known as Queensland Railways, is the statutory authority managing and operating the Queensland Government's rail network, with over 6,500 km of track across the Australian state.
Quill drive
Quill drive is a railway traction transmission in which a hollow shaft around the driving axle carries torque from a sprung traction motor to the wheels.
Quintinshill rail disaster
The Quintinshill rail disaster was a multi-train collision and fire near Gretna Green, Scotland, on 22 May 1915 that killed over 220 people, most of them Royal Scots soldiers bound for Gallipoli.
R (New York City Subway service)
The R, formerly the Broadway-Fourth Avenue Local, is a New York City Subway service that runs local between Forest Hills-71 Av in Queens and Bay Ridge-95 St in Brooklyn.
R160 (New York City Subway car)
The R160 is a class of New York City Subway cars built by Alstom and Kawasaki between 2005 and 2010 for the B Division lettered lines.
R179 (New York City Subway car)
The R179 is a class of 318 New York City Subway cars built by Bombardier for the B Division, serving the A, C, J, and Z lines.
R211 (New York City Subway car)
The R211 is a New York City Subway car class built by Kawasaki, ordered in 2018, with wider doors and open gangways, entering service in 2023.
R268 (New York City Subway car)
The R268 is a planned class of 378 New York City Subway cars ordered from Kawasaki in 2025, replacing the R68 and R68A fleets on the lettered lines.
R62 (New York City Subway car)
The R62 is a class of 325 New York City Subway cars built by Kawasaki of Japan, delivered from 1983 to 1985 and serving the A Division.
Rack railway
A rack railway, also called a cog railway, is a steep-grade railway where a toothed rack rail engaged by a gear gives traction and braking.
Radio block centre
A radio block center (RBC) is the trackside unit of the European Train Control System that sends trains movement authorities by radio in ETCS Level 2.
Rail Baltica
Rail Baltica is a program to build an electrified, standard-gauge railway for passenger and freight linking Tallinn and Riga to Kaunas and Warsaw, the European Union's flagship North Sea–Baltic corridor project.
Rail defect detection
Rail defect detection is the set of non-destructive testing methods, chiefly magnetic induction and ultrasonic testing from detector cars, used to find internal rail flaws before they cause breaks.