...that the FasTrackspublic transportation expansion plan under construction in metropolitan
Denver is estimated to have injected $3 billion into the local economy from 2005 to 2013 and is responsible for creating 12,000 direct full-time jobs since 2005?
...that despite frequent service cancellations, a June 2016 count showed that ridership on
MBTA Commuter Rail's Fairmount Line in
Boston had nearly tripled from 2012?
...that in 1848, Exeter St Thomas station was worked by
atmospheric trains, but since there was no
engine house at the station, the driver had to hold the train on its brakes against the pressure in the pipes while it was stopped there?
...that Everett station on the
MBTA Orange Line was intended to be a temporary station so was constructed of wood like a house rather than like a permanent transit station?
...that the New York & Erie Rail Road, an early predecessor of Erie Railroad, was built with
6 ft (1,829 mm)
wide gauge track, as it was believed to be a superior technology to
standard gauge, providing more stability?
...that the day after the obituary of Epes Randolph, president of
Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico and
Arizona Eastern Railway, was published, the Retail Merchant's Association and the Tucson Chamber of Commerce passed resolutions requesting all members to close at 4 PM for funeral services scheduled at 5?
...that
RŽD ordered only twelve EP10electric locomotives and that in 2006 RŽD chief engineer Valentin Gapanovich called the type a не слишком перспективный локомотив (English: not very promising locomotive)?
...that while building the Elham Valley Railway,
South Eastern Railway reluctantly agreed to build Bourne Park tunnel in the 1880s instead of two bridges due to the objections of Matthew Bell who refused to see trains pass by the back of his mansion?