...that the upper bus deck at Warwick railway station on the
TransperthJoondalup Line constructed of precast
concrete was the most expensive structural element of the station, and was the cause of significant attention and consideration as part of the design and construction process?
...that at the time of their construction beginning in 1988, the dome areas of Ultra Dome cars built by
Colorado Railcar featured the largest individual glass panes ever installed in a
railcar?
...that the Tōbu Kiryū Line in
Tokyo was originally built in 1911 as a 610 mm (2 ft)
gauge human-powered line between Ota and Yabuzuka to haul stone blocks from the Yabuzuka Quarry?
...that a few days prior to opening the Steyning Line in
England, the Government
Inspector of Railways, Colonel Tyler, carried out an inspection of the line, testing in particular the strength of several bridges across the
River Adur by means such as placing multiple
engines with their tenders on them?
...that following damage from
Hurricane Sandy in 2012 when severe flooding turned the station into a "large fish tank," as former
MTA chairman
Joseph Lhota described it, the South Ferry station, then the newest on the entire
New York City Subway system, was closed with repairs estimated to continue until 2016?
...that shortly before it was purchased by
Soo Line Railroad,
EMDFP7A demonstrator 7001, which Soo Line then renumbered as 2500-A, hosted the United Kingdom's Duke of Windsor, the former King
Edward VIII, in its cab on a trip through
North Dakota?
...that Shiodome Freight Terminal, originally built in 1872 as Shimbashi Station, served as the first railway terminal of
Tokyo until it was converted to a freight-only terminal in conjunction with the opening of
Tokyo Station in 1914?
...that
JR West includes the
Katakana character "
ノ" in the
Japanese name of Sannomiya Station, written as 三ノ宮駅, unlike all of the other transportation facilities in
Sannomiya, whose names are written in Japanese as 三宮?
...that the R127 and R134 work cars built in the 1990s for the
New York City Subway are not
air conditioned and instead have axiflow fans, so in the summertime these cars are frequently replaced by other passenger cars on garbage trains?