...that initially the maximum speed for Hokkaido Shinkansen trains through the Seikan Tunnel in Japan will be 140 km/h (87 mph) due to the risk of a narrow gauge freight train traveling in the opposite direction being derailed by the shockwave of air that moves ahead of Shinkansen trains at higher speeds in tunnels?
...that when the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and Shin-Osaka Station opened in Japan in 1964, the original plan was to close Higashi-Yodogawa Station situated only 0.7 km (0.43 mi) from Shin-Osaka in what was then a largely rural area, but neighborhood residents' objections succeeded in keeping the station open, and the distance between the two stations remains as the shortest distance between any two stations on JR Kyoto Line or the Tōkaidō Main Line?
...that in early steam locomotive development in the 1830s and 1840s, the haycock boiler, which featured a prominently raised firebox, incorporated the steam dome into the firebox assembly, which itself was often highly decorated with polished brass?
...that the Hanshin Main Line, the southernmost of three lines to connect Osaka and Kobe, Japan, originally opened in 1905 as one of the oldest interurban railways in Japan by using the Tram Act as the basis to construct a line competing with a governmental line?
...that in an effort to encourage tourism, the Killarney Junction Railway, which was operated by the Great Southern and Western Railway, opened a hotel next to Killarney station in 1854, which made it the first railway-owned hotel in Ireland and it is purported to be one of the first railway hotels in the World?