A train on the Tamagawa Line at Musashi-Sakai Station in 2008
...that although Musashi-Sakai Station in western Tokyo, Japan, served by the JR EastChūō Line and the Seibu Tamagawa Line, is not a major transfer station seeing only local trains stop, historically it is quite important, opening as one of the original stations on the Kobu Railway in 1889?
A Moscow Monorail train arriving at Telecentre station in 2009
...that although the first electric monorail in Russia was built in 1895, the first monorail in Russia was built by Ivan Elmanov in Myachkovo village, near Moscow, in 1820 consisting of horse-drawn carriages atop a horizontal beam which housed the system's wheels?
A preserved USATC S160 Class locomotive in 2006
...that when the United StatesMilitary Railway Service was activated for World War II, all Class I railroad companies were to create a battalion for the war effort making a total of 11 Grand Divisions and 46 operating battalions, although five battalions were never activated?
A Mariazell Railway train on the Saugrabenviadukt in 2003
...that the 760 mm (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in) track gauge of the Mariazell Railway in Austria was chosen, like all narrow gauge railway undertakings in the "Danube Monarchy," by the military administration, as rolling stock used in military service on railways in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which used the 760 mm gauge, would need to be brought in?
Daniel McCallum circa 1870
...that Daniel McCallum, who was appointed General Superintendent of New York and Erie Railroad in 1855, founded the McCallum Bridge Company in 1858 to develop the McCallum inflexible arched truss, used in wooden railroad bridges across the U.S. and Canada in the 19th century, the Powerscourt Covered Bridge in Quebec being the only remaining example still extant?
...that although during original planning and construction in the late 19th century, the Loopline Bridge, which spans the River Liffey in Dublin, Ireland, was subject to much opposition and controversy because the structure blocks the view down river to The Custom House, the bridge was deemed necessary as a rail link between north and south Dublin and to facilitate the movement of transatlantic mail?
...that in 1947, during the First Kashmir War, Lahore Railway Station in Pakistan served as a delivery point for a large number of bodies that were subsequently interred in mass burials by local authorities?
Route map of the proposed and partly-constructed Krasnoyarsk Metro
...that although construction began on the Krasnoyarsk Metro in Russia in 1995, continued funding problems slowed construction such that by the time its proposed 2005 opening date arrived, tunneling had only been completed between two stations and the system is now not expected to open until 2014?
A Kintetsu 6400 series train crossing the Yamato River on the Dōmyōji Line in 2007
JR Kyushu 885 series EMU on a Shiroi Kamome service at Nagasaki Station in 2005
...that although the Kamome service in its current form commenced on 1 July 1976, coinciding with electrification of the Nagasaki Main Line, the Kamome name (written as "鷗") was first used from 1 July 1937 on limited express trains operating between Tokyo and Kōbe, Japan?
The James Whitcomb Riley at Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1974
...that after a broadcast by CBS's 60 Minutes in 1973 revealed that the James Whitcomb Riley passenger train was limited to 10 mph (16 km/h) in Indiana because of the poor quality of Penn Central track, Amtrak re-routed the train, along with the Floridian, off Penn Central trackage altogether?
JR Central 119 Series train at Inakita Station in 2008
...that the 195.7-kilometre long (121.6 mi) Iida Line now operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), was originally four different private railway lines, the first of which opened in 1897, and has an unusually high number of stations, some of which have since lost their nearby communities due to depopulation?