...that although the main passenger terminal of
Berlin's Görlitzer Bahnhof was demolished in the 1960s, the three goods sheds still stand and it is possible to follow part of the old railway route on foot?
...that McKeen Motor Car Company was founded in 1905 by
William McKeen,
Union Pacific Railroad's (UP) Superintendent of Motive Power and Machinery, and the first cars were constructed by UP before McKeen leased shop space from the railroad?
...that because its 1800 metre (1.1 mile) long route is situated on the side of
Mount Carmel connecting Gan Ha'em and Kikar Pariz, the Carmelit in
Haifa,
Israel, is in essence an underground
funicular system?
...that train orders are sometimes used as a means to dispatch trains and address changes in operating schedules and variances from published
timetables?
...that a derailer is sometimes installed on
sidings to prevent fouling of a
track by purposely derailing unauthorized movements of trains or unattended
rolling stock?
...that the Andreyevsky Railway Bridge across the
Moskva River in
Moscow, completed in 1907 with a central span of 135 metres (442 ft 11 in), was moved in 1999 to
Gorky Park and reopened as Pushkinsky Bridge for foot traffic only?
...that running two
steam locomotives on a train, known as double-heading a train, was sometimes done when a single locomotive was not sufficient to propel the train either due to the grades on the line or the train's speed requirements?
...that like most other ex-
Soviet systems, central stations on the Baku Metro in
Azerbaijan are exquisitely decorated, often blending national motifs with Soviet ideology?
...that Metrorail, like the rest of
South Africa's rail network, runs on 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm), also called
Cape gauge, track with some routes operated by
Spoornet and sharing space with long distance passenger and freight trains?
...that although the main passenger terminal of
Berlin's Görlitzer Bahnhof was demolished in the 1960s, the three goods sheds still stand and it is possible to follow part of the old railway route on foot?
...that McKeen Motor Car Company was founded in 1905 by
William McKeen,
Union Pacific Railroad's (UP) Superintendent of Motive Power and Machinery, and the first cars were constructed by UP before McKeen leased shop space from the railroad?
...that because its 1800 metre (1.1 mile) long route is situated on the side of
Mount Carmel connecting Gan Ha'em and Kikar Pariz, the Carmelit in
Haifa,
Israel, is in essence an underground
funicular system?
...that train orders are sometimes used as a means to dispatch trains and address changes in operating schedules and variances from published
timetables?
...that a derailer is sometimes installed on
sidings to prevent fouling of a
track by purposely derailing unauthorized movements of trains or unattended
rolling stock?
...that the Andreyevsky Railway Bridge across the
Moskva River in
Moscow, completed in 1907 with a central span of 135 metres (442 ft 11 in), was moved in 1999 to
Gorky Park and reopened as Pushkinsky Bridge for foot traffic only?
...that running two
steam locomotives on a train, known as double-heading a train, was sometimes done when a single locomotive was not sufficient to propel the train either due to the grades on the line or the train's speed requirements?
...that like most other ex-
Soviet systems, central stations on the Baku Metro in
Azerbaijan are exquisitely decorated, often blending national motifs with Soviet ideology?
...that Metrorail, like the rest of
South Africa's rail network, runs on 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm), also called
Cape gauge, track with some routes operated by
Spoornet and sharing space with long distance passenger and freight trains?