...that after railroad construction began in 1868 along both sides of the Willamette River in Oregon, Ben Holladay's "Eastsiders" building what would become the Oregon and California Railroad completed 20 miles (32 km) of track before the competition, using "every trick known to man" in the construction, including bribing the Oregon Legislature in October 1868?
...that despite the fact that the 7 ft (2,134 mm) broad gauge was in its very final months on the Great Western Railway in England, new broad gauge engines were still needed to maintain services, and eight of the new 3001 Class2-2-2 engines built in 1891-2, Nos. 3021-3028, were built with the wheels outside the frames, to run on the broad gauge and then were converted to standard gauge in 1892?
...that until the installation of mini-CTC in April 2008 on the line Dublin to Wexford and Rosslare, Ireland, it was not normally possible for northbound trains to use the passing loop at Gorey railway station, as it was only signalled in the Rosslare direction which led to some awkward shunting arrangements when a locomotive-hauled train terminated in the station?
...that Geneva Public Transport (French: Transports Publics Genevois, TPG), the tram, trolleybus and bus operator of Geneva Canton, Switzerland, is the successor organization to the Compagnie Genevoise des Tramways Électriques (Geneva Electric Tramway Company), which operated trams throughout the canton and parts of neighbouring France from 1900 until 1 January 1977?
...that unlike most stations, the main station building for Gare de Montdidier, which opened in 1883 in the commune of Montdidier, Somme department, France, is situated perpendicular to the track it serves?
...that the station sign at Fulong Station, which originally opened in 1924 as Okutei Station, is written in imitated Sung characters (仿宋體), a unique feature among Taiwan Railway Administration stations?
...that the 850-metre-long (0.53 mi) metre gaugeFløibanenfunicular railway, which opened in 1918 connecting Bergen to the summit of Fløyen mountain, is one of Norway's most visited attractions serving more than 1 million passengers per year?
...that in contrast with later fire-tube boiler designs, some flued boiler designs of the early 1800s used a single large U-shaped flue called a return flue which proved practical enough that the CanadianSamson of this pattern, built in 1838, remained in service as late as 1885?
...that two Fastech 360high-speed trains were built by East Japan Railway Company to test new Shinkansen technologies at target test speeds as high as 405 km/h (251.7 mph), which led to incorporation of some components into the E5 series and E6 series trains, entering revenue service from 2011, eventually operating at 320 km/h (198.8 mph)?
...that in the late 1970s train services between Germany and the Netherlands was suspended, but although the connection from Enschede railway station to Gronau and Dortmund was reopened in 2001, there is no longer a connection allowing the German trains to run any further into Holland?
...that the unusual du Bousquet locomotive design, in which a tank locomotive's boiler and superstructure were supported upon two swivelling trucks in a manner similar to a Meyer locomotive, overcame the problems the Meyer design had with poor sealing on the steam-pipe flexible joints by having the rear truck, holding the high-pressure cylinders, mounted on a bearing that permitted only rotation and not any other axes of flexibility?
...that when Den-en-chōfu Station at the junction of the Tōkyū Toyoko and Meguro lines in Tokyo, Japan, was rebuilt in the 1980s a copy of the original station building was constructed on elevated ground to become an entranceway to the plaza in front of the new subway station entrance?