...that although the 1965 film Von Ryan's Express is set in Switzerland, the railway sequence at the film's conclusion was shot in Spain along the Caminito del Rey walkway in the El Chorro limestone gorge and the adjacent railway bridge?
Golden Spike reenactment at the Chicago Railroad Fair
class 423 multiple unit leaving the Hasenberg tunnel of the S-Bahn Stuttgart main tracks in 2006
...that although construction didn't begin until the 1970s, the idea of a tunnel between Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof and the Alter Postplatz, which eventually became the Verbindungsbahn, was first proposed in the late 1940s?
An SBB Ae 6-6 electric locomotive pulling the Venice-Simplon Orient Express at Siders, Switzerland, in 2006
...that although the luxuryVenice-Simplon Orient Express uses some restored carriages from the original Orient Express service and operates over similar routes, it is not considered as the lineal descendant of that service?
A scene from a 1917 Harold Lloyd film that used the Venice Miniature Railway in which the lion's head ornaments are clearly visible
...that the lion's head ornaments on the sides of the Venice Miniature Railway's passenger cars were supplied by the J.G. McLain Company for $400 (equivalent to $13,564 in 2023) each?
High-speed trains at Venezia Santa Lucia station in 2013
A WAGR Ec class showing typical application of Vauclain compound system circa 1903
...that uneven forces at the crosshead on Vauclain compound equipped steam locomotives produced excess wear, which increased maintenance costs offsetting predicted fuel economies?
The rear of a Skytop Lounge at Chicago Union Station in 1974
A Variotram in the Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland, in 2004
...that forty Variotrams were built by Transtech for Helsinki City Transport, but because Transtech was acquired by Bombardier during their production, the Helsinki trams were the only Variotrams to be produced under the Bombardier name?
1870 cartoon depicting Cornelius Vanderbilt atop Hudson River and New York Central locomotives in a race against James Fisk atop an Erie Railroad locomotive
...that southbound trains from France approach Vallorbe railway station from a southwesterly direction, and northbound trains from Lausanne approach from the northeast?
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