...that a number of hovertrain concepts, a type of
high-speed train that replaces conventional steel wheels with
hovercraft lift pads, were developed in the 1960s and 1970s, including a number of systems for smaller urban deployments?
...that in the history of Link Light Rail, a
light rail line in
Seattle, one of the decisions that helped the line's construction proceed was to shorten its planned 21-mile (34 km) length to 14 miles (23 km) and concentrate work on the southern portion of the line?
...that the original Himeji Station, now a major stop on the
San'yō Main Line and the western end of the
JR Kobe Line in
Japan, was built bordering the old
city walls of
Himeji and the current station building is actually constructed on top of part of the old city wall?
...that the current Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge north of
Sydney,
Australia, was built in the 1940s to replace an earlier bridge after cracks developed in the former bridge's piers, which were built in the 1880s, due to the loads passing over the bridge and the piers not being seated in bedrock?
...that with around 200
trams as of 2006[update], which serve twelve day-time and five night-time lines with a combined length of 190 km (118 mi), the Gothenburg tram network in
Sweden is the largest tram network in
Scandinavia?
...that geared steam locomotives such as the
Shay,
Climax or
Heisler locomotive types were designed to provide a low speed locomotive with ample starting
tractive effort especially on temporary
industrial and logging railway tracks that were not as robustly constructed as on main line railroads?
...that the G22C Series of
diesel locomotives, first introduced in 1968 to replace the popular
G12, was the first model series exported by
EMD to be available with a low nose as a standard option?
...that the
FSE428 classelectric locomotive, intended to provide a fast service on the newly-
electrifiedMilan-
Rome mainline, was originally designed in the early 1930s with a 2-Do-2
wheel arrangement but was modified to 2-Bo-Bo-2 based on unfavorable experiences with the earlier E326 class?
...that although the
121 class locomotives proved successful, a model among the earlier diesel locomotives of Ireland, one drawback of their design was the single
cab construction requiring the locomotive to be turned at the end of each journey as the
drivers refused to operate them "
long hood" forward?