An inspection locomotive of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
...that inspection locomotives, a special type of steam locomotive fitted with passenger car-like bodywork and seating, were designed to carry railroad officials on inspection tours of the railroad property?
...that the PKP classification system used in Poland allows information such as the type, wheel arrangement, power and other information to be coded into the locomotive's class designation?
...that until a policy change on Hong Kong's KCR East Rail in 1994 setting train lengths at 12 cars, trains were made up of sets of two, three or four EMUs, which gave them a total length of either six, nine or 12 cars?
HRS 161.106.0 at Hallsberg, Sweden
...that the original body design for NSB's El 15 class of electric locomotive in Norway called for operator cabs at only one end because the locomotives were intended to be operated in pairs?
...that for more than half a century the 19,803 metre (12.3 mile) long Simplon Tunnel, which connects the railways of Switzerland with those of Italy, was considered to be the longest tunnel in the world?
Laigh Milton Viaduct
...that the Laigh Milton Viaduct is the oldest surviving railway viaduct in Scotland and one of the oldest in the world?
...that the Trans-Iranian Railway faced numerous geological challenges during its construction, including collapsing tunnels, excavation through unblastable pumice, and a void within a mountain being tunnelled which required a bridge to be built within the tunnel?
An Amtrak train at the Brattleboro, Vermont, station in 2004
...that Amtrak, the United States' intercitypassenger train system which employs 19,000 people to service a network of 22,000 miles (35,000 km), served a record 25 million passengers in 2006?
...that Hell Station in Norway (the town name being derived from the Old Norse word "hellir", meaning "cave") features a sign for "Gods Expedition" (meaning goods/cargo transport) that based on its entirely different English meaning has become a popular photographic subject for English-speaking visitors?
DUEWAG GT 8-100D/2S-M
...that DUEWAGAG built virtually all vehicles for West Germany's tram and light rail network since the 1960s and remained a major manufacturer of railway vehicles until being bought and subsequently dissolved by Siemens in 1999?
Tsar Nicholas I of Russia
...that "The Tsar's finger", a deviation on the Moscow–Saint Petersburg Railway along an otherwise straight route, takes its name from an urban legend that claims it is the result of Russian railway engineers faithfully copying the route TsarNicholas I of Russia selected by ruling a straight line on a map and accidentally drawing around his finger?
...that the Rosstown Railway in Australia, a private railway built to service a sugar beet mill that never went into production, reportedly only ever carried one train (other than construction and ballast trains) between its construction in 1888 and dismantling in 1916?
...that HO scale model trains were first introduced in the United Kingdom in the 1930s, originally as an alternative to 00 gauge?
...that the German company Trix began producing electrically powered model trains under the brand name "Trix Express" in 1935?
...that the goal of train shunting puzzles can be to shunt the cars making the minimum number of couplings and uncouplings, or making the minimum number of junction direction changes, or completing the puzzle within a specified time limit?
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