... that disputes between rival railway companies during the building of the Cleveland Railway became so intense that they led to a "battle" on the
River Tees?
... that on 21 June 2001, on the Mount Newman railway, a
BHP Billiton iron ore train consisting of 682 cars broke the world record for the heaviest train, weighing 99,734 tons and being 7.3 kilometres long?
... that, in 1996, operation of the ore trains (pictured) on the Iron Ore Line and the Ofoten Line were privatized and transferred to Malmtrafik?
... that
Talyllyn Railway locomotives No. 3 Sir Haydn and No. 4 Edward Thomas both hold the unusual distinction of carrying the same number through the ownership of four different railway companies?
... that the NSB Class 72 trains could at first not be used on the high-speed
Gardermoen Line because their electronics interfered with the signaling system?
... that although most of the bridges of the Dresden–Görlitz railway were destroyed near the end of
World War II, the line was usable once again by late 1945?
... that although travel times between downtown
Tainan and the
Tainan High Speed Rail Station will be halved by the new Shalun Line, residents have complained that it will worsen local road traffic?
... that, out of the 2,600 km (1,600 mi) of track in use in
Vietnam's national railway network, 85% of passenger volume and 60% of cargo volume is transported along the 1,726 km (1,072 mi)
North–South Railway line?
... that
LNERCMENigel Gresley was so concerned about unsafe railway practices shown in the 1929 film The Flying Scotsman that he made the film producers include a disclaimer at the beginning?
... that the guard on the train involved in a derailment at
Falls of Cruachan in 2010 was also the guard on a train derailed at the same location in 1997?
... that the railroads controlled by Alfred Holland Smith in 1918 carried one half of United States freight?
... that the oldest running wood-burning locomotive in Hawaii, now at Grove Farm Museum, one of two heritage railways in Kauai, was almost sold for $500 to the Disney Company in the 1970s?
... that ten
New Zealand soldiers lost their lives in 1917 in the Bere Ferrers rail accident due to being unaccustomed to the British railway system?
... that at 44
tons, the locomotives of the Central London Railway's first underground trains were so heavy that they shook buildings as they passed 60 feet below and were scrapped after three years?
... that the sawmill of Mitford, Alberta, failed partly because most of the good quality
lumber to be found in the area was used in the construction of the railway designed to haul said lumber to market?
... that during World War II the Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company made the "Galloping Gertie", a railroad motor car with a large target above it used for gunnery practice?
... that British sculptor Marcus Cornish has created a sculpture of the fictional
Paddington Bear(pictured) and a statue of Jesus Christ dubbed "Jesus in Jeans" by the media?
... that the
Pullman Company boycotted Transpo '72 after the US government provided millions in funding so military contractors could show their attempts to enter the
mass transit field?
... that the prototype Tracked Hovercrafthigh-speed train(remains pictured) was expected to reach 300 mph on its test track north of
London, but had only broken 100 mph on a short portion before the program was cancelled in 1973?
... that two months after the final five Green Line stations on
Washington, D.C.'s
Metro opened, more than 30,600 riders per day boarded at the stations—three times as many as originally estimated?