...that the Metro Green Line connecting the downtown districts of both
Minneapolis and
Saint Paul is one of only six
mass-transit rail lines in the United States that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week?
...that Dampflokwerk Meiningen in Germany is the only facility in Europe capable of constructing new
steam locomotiveboilers up to modern standards of construction, performance, and safety?
...that the first regularly scheduled
subway service in the United States was a precursor to the MBTA Subway with a run through the
Tremont Street Subway in Boston in September 1897?
...that pioneering
steam locomotive builder Matthias W. Baldwin patented a method of maintaining and swapping out interchangeable fire grates with active fires on them?
...that the
steam locomotives built by Mason Machine Works in the 19th century were known by railroad engineers and operators to be the easiest engines to repair?
...that the first regularly scheduled train on the Marrawah Tramway in
Tasmania, which was founded as a timber hauling line, carried nine tons of cheese and two tons of wool, skins and hides?
...that the train that runs on the Marlow branch line in
Berkshire and
Buckinghamshire, England, is known as The Marlow Donkey although the exact derivation of the term is unclear?
...that Mansfield, Massachusetts, and
Kingston, Rhode Island, are the only two stations on the
Northeast Corridor where the Acela reaches its top speed of 150 mph (240 km/h) on
platform tracks?
...that the Parliamentary proposal in 1900 that led to the construction of Mære Station in
Trøndelag,
Norway, originally suggested two separate nearby stations?
...that the M1 and M3EMU cars built by
Budd for use on commuter lines radiating out from New York City were the catalyst of change for their respective systems as the high-level boarding required all stations in the
electrified zone to be rebuilt from 1966-1968?