New EMU cars for the FasTracks projects on display in 2014
...that the FasTrackspublic transportation expansion plan under construction in metropolitan Denver is estimated to have injected $3 billion into the local economy from 2005 to 2013 and is responsible for creating 12,000 direct full-time jobs since 2005?
An MBTA train at Morton Street station in 2016
...that despite frequent service cancellations, a June 2016 count showed that ridership on MBTA Commuter Rail's Fairmount Line in Boston had nearly tripled from 2012?
An Exmouth to Paignton train stops at Exeter St Thomas to pick up commuters in 2008
...that in 1848, Exeter St Thomas station was worked by atmospheric trains, but since there was no engine house at the station, the driver had to hold the train on its brakes against the pressure in the pipes while it was stopped there?
Trains of South West Trains and Great Western Railway at Exeter Central station in 2014
...that Everett station on the MBTA Orange Line was intended to be a temporary station so was constructed of wood like a house rather than like a permanent transit station?
Alfred Ilg, founder of the Ethio-Djibouti Railways, and his family at Dire Diwa station before 1906
...that the New York & Erie Rail Road, an early predecessor of Erie Railroad, was built with 6 ft (1,829 mm) wide gauge track, as it was believed to be a superior technology to standard gauge, providing more stability?
...that the day after the obituary of Epes Randolph, president of Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico and Arizona Eastern Railway, was published, the Retail Merchant's Association and the Tucson Chamber of Commerce passed resolutions requesting all members to close at 4 PM for funeral services scheduled at 5?
EP10-007 at the front of a passenger train in 2010
...that RŽD ordered only twelve EP10electric locomotives and that in 2006 RŽD chief engineer Valentin Gapanovich called the type a не слишком перспективный локомотив (English: not very promising locomotive)?
A military train with a railway-mounted canon at Bourne Park tunnel in 1941
...that while building the Elham Valley Railway, South Eastern Railway reluctantly agreed to build Bourne Park tunnel in the 1880s instead of two bridges due to the objections of Matthew Bell who refused to see trains pass by the back of his mansion?
A New Haven EP-1 class electric locomotive in 1907