...that Leo Daft led the construction of an electric railroad in Newark, New Jersey, in 1883 as well as the Los Angeles Electric Railway, the first electric railway in Los Angeles, California, in the 1880s?
...that the right-of-way for the Innocent Railway, which is now a bicycle path, in Scotland includes what might be Britain’s first railway tunnel built around 1830?
...that Pope Pius IX presided over the opening ceremonies for both the temporary terminal in Rome on February 25, 1863 and the permanent Roma Termini station on July 2, 1868?
...that 36 rail-based RT-23 Molodets, RussianICBMs, were developed and produced by the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, but were all decommissioned by August 2005?
...that the sole example of Virginian Railway's Class XA, a 2-8-8-8-4, lasted only a few years in service before being rebuilt as two locomotives (a 2-8-8-0 and a 2-8-2)?