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the Paris pod metro
it's p but is it a train?

Also for "P" is Puffing Billy, a popular tourist attraction that runs through forest near Melbourne, Australia. Great fun for kids- I enjoyed it as a child and so did my children.

Q - Quad Cities Rocket train, was a named passenger train of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. It operated daily on a route between Chicago and Rock Island, Illinois. First service was in 1970, and the last service was in 1978.

'Rocket', built by George Stephenson and winner of the Rainhill Trials at Liverpool in 1829, which signalled the birth of the Railway era in the UK and the rest of the world. This is a much modified version of the original, and is currently on display at the National Railway Museum in York.







Here's what the original version looked like, before the era of photography, of course.

S - Steel Express, is a Superfast class train in India operated by Indian Railways connecting Kolkata with the steel-producing city Jamshedpur. It has been operating since 1 April 1970, which is 53 years ago.

T - The 'Trans-Kyushu Limited Express' (九州横断特急), a train from Japan that runs between Beppu and Kumamoto.

U - Udyan Express, is an express train belonging to Indian Railways that runs between Mumbai Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus and Bangalore in India.