... that the Harrington Hump has been built for
railway stations in the
United Kingdom for mobility-impaired access, since platform heights are not standardised and refurbishment is very expensive?
... that the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad offered "millions of acres" of cheap land as a motivation for settlers to move to Iowa and Nebraska in 1872?
... that the
Talent, a multiple unit passenger train in the rail system of Germany, Austria and Norway, was developed by Waggonfabrik Talbot in
Aachen?
... that the Nehru Setu, built in 1900, was the longest railway bridge in India until
a longer one was opened in February 2011?
... that when railway telegrapher Alfred Atherton was accused of manslaughter for his role in the Canoe River train crash, he hired his
MP,
John Diefenbaker as defence counsel, who won an acquittal?
... that Sir George Gibb, head of the
British government's former Road Board, was accused of having delayed the construction of new roads because he had been a
railwayman?
... that during World War I, future
Norwegian politician and railroad chairman Egil Werner Erichsen was hit by the
Spanish Flu, but did not spend one day in bed?
... that a jury awarded an alleged robber $20,000 in 1935 for a botched 1931 burglary of the Harriman Erie Railroad station after the cops shot his leg?
... that since the discontinuation of commuter rail in Cleveland, Ohio, there have been at least three proposals for restoring service, but none have progressed beyond studies?
... that the 1915 Parnell Tunnel in
New Zealand replaced a steeper single-track tunnel known to inundate open carriages with smoke and sparks, causing burns and clothing stains?
... that the Harrington Hump has been built for
railway stations in the
United Kingdom for mobility-impaired access, since platform heights are not standardised and refurbishment is very expensive?
... that the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad offered "millions of acres" of cheap land as a motivation for settlers to move to Iowa and Nebraska in 1872?
... that the
Talent, a multiple unit passenger train in the rail system of Germany, Austria and Norway, was developed by Waggonfabrik Talbot in
Aachen?
... that the Nehru Setu, built in 1900, was the longest railway bridge in India until
a longer one was opened in February 2011?
... that when railway telegrapher Alfred Atherton was accused of manslaughter for his role in the Canoe River train crash, he hired his
MP,
John Diefenbaker as defence counsel, who won an acquittal?
... that Sir George Gibb, head of the
British government's former Road Board, was accused of having delayed the construction of new roads because he had been a
railwayman?
... that during World War I, future
Norwegian politician and railroad chairman Egil Werner Erichsen was hit by the
Spanish Flu, but did not spend one day in bed?
... that a jury awarded an alleged robber $20,000 in 1935 for a botched 1931 burglary of the Harriman Erie Railroad station after the cops shot his leg?
... that since the discontinuation of commuter rail in Cleveland, Ohio, there have been at least three proposals for restoring service, but none have progressed beyond studies?
... that the 1915 Parnell Tunnel in
New Zealand replaced a steeper single-track tunnel known to inundate open carriages with smoke and sparks, causing burns and clothing stains?