...that Kishi Station in Kinokawa, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, is known for Tama the Station Cat, a female cat which became the mascot for the station where she held the official position of Super Station Master until January 2010 when she was promoted to be a corporate executive at the Wakayama Railway?
...that steam locomotives designed by William Kirtley while he was locomotive superintendent of the London Chatham and Dover Railway have been described as "well designed, robustly constructed, easily maintained, and capable of high mileages between general repairs" by historians?
...that although feasibility studies have been conducted and construction proposals have been sought for the proposed Khunjerab Railway connecting Havelian, Pakistan, and Kashgar, China, and the section from Kashgar to Hotan opened for freight service in December 2010, completion of the line is uncertain due to criticism and financial concerns in Pakistan and political questions from India?
...that Kami-noge Station in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan, is equipped with a third track lacking a platform which allows some express trains bound for Oimachi to pass local trains at this station during the rush-hour?
...that trains on Seoul Subway'sLine 1 do not stop at Jonggak Station on New Year's Day when the bell ceremony (Jeyaeui Jong Tajongsik) is held at Boshingak for which the station is named because the area is so crowded with tens of thousands of Seoulites that avoiding the stop avoids potential accidents?
...that to connect with the railroads, the James River and Kanawha Canal Company in Virginia was authorized in 1876 to build the Buchanan and Clifton Forge Railway (B&CF) to connect the westernmost point of the canal with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O), but sold the B&CF to the Richmond and Alleghany Railroad in 1878, a railroad that itself was eventually absorbed by the C&O in 1888?
...that Indian Railways' WAG classes of electric locomotives, beginning with the WAG 1 class first built in 1963 and continuing with the WAG-9 class built from 1996 onward, are the most powerful locomotives operating in India?
...that since succeeding Louis Gallois as head of the SNCF in 2006, Anne-Marie Idrac was involved in the development of TGV lines at a European dimension, to the relaunch of regional transportation, and to the regeneration of the network for RFF, and to the rectification of the fret situation?
...that following the Hugstetten rail disaster in which 64 people were killed and some 230 were seriously injured on the railway line between Freiburg im Breisgau and Breisach am Rhein, Germany, in 1882, many passengers refused to board trains pulled by the locomotive involved in the accident and many landowners refused to allow the locomotive to pass over their territory?