Train

File:Paris train.jpg

A train crosses the Seine in Paris.

A train was a connected series of vehicles, powered by a Locomotive, and transporting freight or passenger cars along a railroad. Trains were used on Earth until at least the late-24th century.

After Jonathan Archer restored a damaged timeline, a train could be seen in the time stream as the timeline realigned itself. (ENT: "Storm Front, Part II")

This seemed to be during the late 19th or early 20th century.

In 1957 T'Mir traveled by train on her way from Carbon Creek to Pittsburgh. (ENT: "Carbon Creek")

Sigmund Freud met Gertrude Stein on a train, the Orient Express. The Orient Express was also the subject of a holodeck simulation enjoyed by Beverly Crusher. (TNG: "Emergence")

Zefram Cochrane preferred taking trains because he disliked air travel (much less going into space). (Star Trek: First Contact)

A primitive unnamed planet visited by Enterprise in 2152 had developed trains. A train-like vehicle was also seen on Dekendi III.

The planet Quarra had a transit system of hovertrains in a major industrial city in 2377. (VOY: "Workforce")

Paris retained a train system in the 2370s. (DS9: "Paradise Lost")

Notable train services

• Seaboard Railroad
• Orient Express

See also

• Subway
• "I've Been Working on the Railroad"
• Grand Central

External link

• Train at Wikipedia