...that after
Sound Transit removed the
Seattle University stop from the
North Link preferred route in July 2005, subsequent studies into expanding transit to the area showed that neighborhood residents, institutions, and business owners strongly preferred a
streetcar, which led to the First Hill Streetcar proposal in 2008?
...that the 8-kilometre (5.0 mi) long Thousand Islands Railway, which was constructed in
Canada in 1883 and operated independently from 1884 to 1958 then as a
subsidiary of
Canadian National Railway until 1995, was originally incorporated as the Gananoque & Rideau Railway in 1871?
...that the ASVi museum, a
tramway museum in
Thuin,
Belgium, which specialises in the history of the Belgian
narrow gaugeVicinal system, operates over parts of the original Vicinal tramway as well as a part of the
SNCB which was
converted to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge and equipped with
overhead lines?
...that Mitsui Rail Capital, the railway rolling stock leasing company subsidiary of
Mitsui Group, operates in the
United States as Mitsui Rail Capital, LLC, in
Latin America as Mitsui Rail Capital Participacões Ltda. and in
Europe as Mitsui Rail Capital Europe BV?
...that the Berlin-Hamburg Railway (
German: Berlin-Hamburger Bahn), a roughly 286 km (178 mi) long
railway line connecting its namesake cities that originally opened in 1846, was the first
high-speed line upgraded in
Germany to be capable of handling train speeds of over 200 km/h (120 mph)?
...that battery locomotives, a type of electric locomotive, are used in situations where a conventional
diesel or electric locomotive would be unsuitable such as for maintenance trains on
electrified lines when the electricity supply is turned off or in industrial facilities where a combustion-powered locomotive could cause a safety issue?
...that in the
United Kingdom, headboards were common on the public railways in the age of
steam and into the age of
diesel and
electric trains, but their use on scheduled trains is now defunct save for the occasion of a 'last train,' such as on the withdrawal of a particular class of train?