...that Seibu Railway's Yamaguchi Linepeople mover, also known as the Leo Liner, was originally opened in 1950 as a 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge attraction ride called Fantasy Train (おとぎ列車, Otogi Ressha)?
RTD Silverliner V commuter rail cars on display at Union Station in 2014
...that when construction of the N Line in Denver, Colorado, is completed in 2018, the 18.5-mile long (29.8 km) line will include the Skyway Bridge, which at 9,533 feet (2,906 m) will be the longest bridge in Colorado?
Postcard view of the Everett Street Depot headhouse
Ffestinog Railway double Fairlie engine David Lloyd George at Bleanau Ffestiniog station in 2006
...that the first Fairlie locomotive, named Little Wonder, was such a success that Robert Francis Fairlie, the locomotive's inventor, gave the Ffestiniog Railway Company in Wales a perpetual license to use the Fairlie patent without restriction in return for using the line and the success of its Fairlie locomotives in his publicity?
...that the Leipzigtramway network operated by Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe is the second-largest such network in Germany (after Berlin), and as the result of overlay of lines, central segments are served as frequently as every 2–3 minutes?
The East Rail Line platform of Kowloon Tong Station in 2013
...that starting in the 1960s, the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, the predecessor of BC Rail, operated an intermodal service that transported truck trailers between North Vancouver and Prince George, British Columbia, and to places further north, and unlike most of the railway's other traffic, most of the intermodal traffic was northbound?
IB&O Railway locomotive number 1 circa 1886
...that in order to claim a bonus for construction reaching to Gooderham, Ontario, in 1886, the Irondale, Bancroft and Ottawa Railwayleapfrogged to the destination by building off the existing endpoint and moving the construction train forward onto the new rails, then lifting the rails behind the train and placing them in front, allowing the train to move forward again?
An electric locomotive at the front of an ÖBB passenger train at St. Pölten, Austria, in 2013
...that ÖBB, the national railway of Austria, was formed in 1923 as Bundesbahn Österreich, was incorporated into the Deutsche Reichsbahn during the 1938-1945 Anschluss, then reformed in 1947 using the slightly different Österreichische Bundesbahnen name?
The preserved power car of TGV 001 on static display near Strasbourg in 2009
...that Schnabel cars are designed to distribute the weight of their heavy and oversized loads over a large number of bogies, with the largest car of this type in use in North America, CEBX 800, using 18 bogies?
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