...that the Sentosa Expressmonorail, scheduled to open in October 2006 in
Singapore, is the first system to use
Hitachi's "small" straddle-type monorail trains?
...that during
World War II the Minsk Terminal station building in present day
Belarus was completely destroyed, and the rebuilt structure from 1946 remained in service until 1991?
...that construction of the Shanghai Maglev Train cost 1.2 billion
dollars (10 billion
yuan) and the project took 2.5 years to complete the 19 mile (30.6 km) track?
...that
Hungarian engineer Kálmán Kandó is sometimes called "the father of the electric train" for the
three phaseAC equipment he developed in the late 1800s?