A Kanto Railway KiHa 2300 series DMU at Moriya Station on the Jōsō Line in 2008
...that in fiscal 1999, the Jōsō Line, which originally opened in 1913, carried an annual total of 14.16 million passengers (38,000 per day), making it the busiest non-electrified private line in Japan?
ED60 7 pulls a freight train circa 1985
...that despite its diminutive size, the Bo-Bowheel arrangementED60 design introduced to pull freight trains on Japanese National Railways in 1958 offered performance comparable with the much larger Class EF15 1Co+Co1 design weighing almost twice as much?
...that Ron Huberman, an avowed "L" rider during his tenure as president at the Chicago Transit Authority, once removed an unruly and disorderly passenger from a train he was riding on after the rider verbally harassed a female passenger?
Trams of different construction eras operating concurrently on the Hiroden network in 2005
...that the rolling stock of Hiroshima Electric Railway, which was established in 1910 in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, includes an eclectic range of trams manufactured from across Japan and Europe, earning it the nickname "The Moving Streetcar Museum"?
The eastern portal of Hex River Tunnel number 4 in 2005
...that upon its completion in 1989, the 13.5-kilometre long (8.4 mi) tunnel number 4 of the Hex River Tunnels in South Africa, a part of the Hexton line that helped to eliminate the Hex River rail pass bottleneck, became the longest railway tunnel in Africa?
East London Harbour Grasshopper type construction locomotive, c. 1880
A 485-3000 series Hakuchō at Aomori Station in 2003
...that although the current Hakuchō services between Shin-Aomori and Hakodate via the undersea Seikan Tunnel in Japan were introduced in 2002, the Hakuchō name actually dates back to 1960, as the name of a service which ran from Ōsaka to Aomori until March 2001; the name was reused for the new services by popular demand?
Map of the Ferrocarril Rosario y Puerto Belgrano line
...that the main line of the Ferrocarril Rosario y Puerto Belgrano in Buenos Aires and Santa Fe provinces, Argentina, connected its namesake cities in 1910 after many other east to west lines had already been laid, necessitating a large number of bridges with short, sharp gradients to cross them on an otherwise near level course?
The former Pettigo station building, now a private residence, as seen in 2007
An E5 series Shinkansen on a Hayabusa service in 2011
...that the first revenue-earning service operated on the Joetsu Shinkansen by an E5 series trainset was a special Joetsu Shinkansen 30th Anniversary (上越新幹線開業30周年号」, Jōetsu Shinkansen Kaigyō 30-shūnen-gō) service from Niigata to Tokyo on 17 November 2012 using E5 series set U8, with a special ceremony at Niigata Station before departure?
A postcard view of the interior of an Astra Dome lounge car in the 1950s
...that most dome lounge cars, a type of dome car that includes lounge, cafe, dining or other space on the upper level or both levels of the car, remained in service for their original owners up to the end of privately run passenger trains in North America when many were transferred to Amtrak?
An artist's conception of a Dalkey Atmospheric Railway train arriving at Kingstown in 1844
