...that quick and coordinated actions between
Metrol controllers and
drivers to clear a train from the path of a runaway train, although it later collided with another train at
Spencer Street station, had prevented one collision by as close as one second?
...that
Santa Fe Railway's Golden Gatepassenger train was involved in what was believed to be the first collision in the United States between a modern
streamlined train and an automobile when it was struck by a car in January 1939?
...that although Adler was the first
steam locomotive successfully used
commercially in Germany, earlier designs had been in private use in Germany as early as 1816?
...that the first emergency call after the 1999 Wuppertal Schwebebahn accident was initially met with laughter from the dispatcher as it was considered inconceivable for a
Schwebebahn train to fall off the overhead track?
...that in an attempt to preventing picketing and end the 1948 Queensland railway strike, the
Queensland Parliament passed an act which gave police extraordinary powers to arrest without warrant and enter any home without cause?