The main station building of Los Angeles Union Station in 2012
...that the Los Angeles Times argued in editorials against a 1926 ballot measure that Union Station would "forever do away with Chinatown and its environs"?
...that the success of Union Station in Meridian, Mississippi, encouraged more than $8 million in private investment in the Depot District within the first few years since it was rebuilt in 1997?
UP 1943, honoring the US Armed Forces on a train in 2017
...that when Ulm Hauptbahnhof was rebuilt after World War II, Carl Ebner, the first chairman of the Tourist Office of Ulm/Neu-Ulm, called the new structure "the biggest train wreck of Ulm"?
A Ukrainian Railways long-distance passenger train in 2006
...that Ukrainian Railways' 'South-Western Railway' actually operates the north-central part of Ukraine's rail network, while the 'Southern Railway' actually operates in the east of the country?
An S10 Uetlibergbahn train of Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn (SZU), tailed by Be 556 524, has just left Uetliberg station for Zürich HB in 2005
...that after its opening in 1835, services on the first section of what has become the Tyne Valley line were suspended for a few months when a local landowner objected to the use of locomotives?
...that of the 5,538 km (3,441 mi) of new railway lines included in Turkish State Railways' 1948 expansion plan, only 96 km (60 mi) were actually built?
Tulip Viaduct in 2006
...that in 1906, the workers building the Tulip Viaduct in Indiana, at the time the longest railroad trestle in the United States, were paid up to 30 cents per hour?
A London Underground train at Farringdon station in 2012
...that the unusual combination of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge and 260 cm (100 in) wide wagons made it difficult to sell the Class 8trams that remain in service on the Trondheim Tramway?
Tsim Sha Tsui station's exit A1 after a 2016 renovation
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