...that although construction on Metrovalencia's Tavernes Blanques - Natzaret line began in 2007 and portions of the line were put into service in September 2007, the line has yet to be completed due to a lack of funding?
...that the 16.82-hectare (41.6-acre) Taipei Railway Workshop, built in 1935 and designated an "official national historic site" in 2015, was the largest and oldest facility of its kind on the island of Taiwan?
...that the Südbrücke railway bridge (South Bridge) built in 1860 at Mainz, Germany, was the first permanent bridge built across the Rhine at Mainz since the Roman bridge (Pons Ingeniosa) first built c. 30 AD and the Carolingian Rhine bridge of Charlemagne?
...that when the earliest organization that led to the Switchmen's Union of North America was formed in 1870, many switchmen in and around Chicago were paid $50 a week for twelve hour days, seven days a week?
...that Sorefame supplied the vast majority of Portugal's railway rolling stock until the Carnation Revolution of 1974 and economic liberalisation, especially following Portugal's entry to the European Union in 1986, resulted in far greater international competition?
...that steam for a soda locomotive was raised in a boiler and expanded through cylinders in the usual way like other fireless locomotives, but the steam was then condensed in a tank of caustic soda that surrounded the boiler to chemically generate more heat and steam?
...that Sendai Subway's 1000 series trains introduced in 1987 were the world's first trains to use fuzzy logic to control their speed which made their acceleration smoother and their energy consumption more efficient than other train types?
...that at its peak in the 1910s, the Rosario Tramway, the third such system built in Argentina, had 300 vehicles on its 192-kilometre long (119 mi) network?
...that when the new elevated station was constructed at Roosevelt on the Chicago 'L' system in 1993, it was intended that there should be a direct link to the subway station below it, but this connection wasn't built until 2002?