Paul Wild of CSIRO standing in front of a TGV in France in 1989
...that although the Very Fast Train Joint Venture remains the most substantial investment into a high-speed rail project in Australia, speculation on its failure in 1991 included a difficult relationship between joint venture members, the deregulation of the Australian airline market and accusations that the scheme was in fact a disguised land development project?
Former Canadian National Tempo cars in use on the Ski Train in 2008
...that when Canadian National Railway introduced its new Tempo cars on the Toronto–Windsor and Toronto–Sarnia corridors in 1968, they were hauled by six rebuilt MLW RS-18 locomotives that were equipped with HEP and painted in a unique red-orange and gray livery?
Aerial view showing Stockholm Central Station and surrounding buildings in 2014
...that because Stockholm Central Station is the busiest station in Sweden (not counting metro stations), engineers use the heat generated by the thousands of visitors everyday to help heat a nearby office building?
Two class 14E1 locomotives at Beaufort West, Western Cape, in 2007
Aerial view of Rangierbahnhof Kornwestheim yard in Germany in 2008
...that the railML data exchange format development began in 2002 as part of an effort to mitigate the chronic difficulty of connecting different railway IT applications, especially between European railway companies, and now includes schema for infrastructure, rolling stock and timetable information?
Observers gathered to see the opening of the Dandenong Road line opening in 1911
A Península Valdés Railway train hauled by a Krauss 0-4-0T locomotive, leaving Puerto Pirámides
...that after the Ferro y Piaggio company folded in 1916, entrepreneur Alejandro Ferro reportedly acquired the assets of the Península Valdés Railway in Argentina, but the lack of documents or titles that proved his rights led to its complete closure in 1920?
One of the extant stone piers of Nethan Viaduct in 2007
...that Lesmahagow Railway's now demolished Nethan Viaduct was rebuilt soon after opening by inserting iron piers between the existing stone piers to raise the track level by 19+1⁄2 feet (5.9 m), making it one of the tallest viaducts in Scotland?
A Kintetsu Ise-Shima Liner at Ujiyamada Station in 2008
A pair of EF63s leading a 489 series EMU on a Hakusan service in June 1997
...that trains ascending the Usui Pass section of the Shinetsu Main Line from Yokokawa in Japan were driven by the driver in the rearmost cab of the bankingEF63 pair at the rear of the train, with the driver in the front cab of the train acting only as signal look-out?