A Kurobe Senyo Railway (Jobu Track) train at Keyakidaira-Jobu Station in 2007
...that construction of the Kurobe Senyō Railway section called High Temperature Tunnel (高熱隧道, Kōnetsu Zuidō) in Toyama Prefecture, Japan, was made difficult by the temperature of surrounding rocks which reached as high as 160 °C (320 °F) at the time?
A railway crossing of Kintetsu Kōsaku Line in 2007
...that of the 172 JNRClass EF58electric locomotives built between 1946 and 1958, one of the class, EF58 61, was built specially for use as the official Imperial Train locomotive and is still maintained in immaculate condition in its original brown livery?
A postcard view of the Jardin d'Acclimatation railway circa 1910
...that since the 2,182-kilometre long (1,356 mi) Delhi–Chennai line in India is used as the main route of the Grand Trunk Express, the line is often referred to as the Grand Trunk Route?
Preserved 0-4-2 locomotive "Blackie" at Cape Town station in 2007
...that an 0-4-0T locomotive built by R and W Hawthorn in 1859, which was later rebuilt as an 0-4-2T and became engine number 9 of the Cape Town Railway and Dock Company and then of the Cape Government Railways, was the first locomotive in the territory that is now South Africa?
The platforms at Denville Junction station in 2010
...that the Aonami Line, connecting Nagoya and Kinjō-Futō stations in Japan, was originally opened as a freight-only branch line of the Tōkaidō Main Line but was later converted to allow passenger traffic in 2004?