...that the Sulzer LDA (prefixed by the number of cylinders, and with a suffix related to the cylinder bore) diesel engine was widely used by British Rail with many built under license by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow as six-, eight- and twelve-cylinder form?
...that the improvements implemented in the South African RailwaysClass MC1, mainly a redesigned boiler that included a superheater and 0.5 inches (12.7 millimetres) larger diameter low pressure and high pressure cylinders, resulted in a much better performing locomotive than its predecessor Class MC with an increased tractive effort brought about by the larger cylinders?
...that many metro stations on systems around the world can be characterized as single-vault stations where the platforms and tracks are contained in a single wide and high underground hall in which there is only one vault?
...that the 1-kilometre long (0.62 mi) Takaotozan Railway (高尾登山電鉄, Takao Tozan Dentetsu) connecting Kiyotaki Station at elevation 201 m (659 ft) and Takaosan Station at elevation 472 m (1,549 ft) creating a 608‰ (31°) grade is the steepest funicular railway in Japan?
...that with a track length of 2 kilometres (1.2 mi), the Sakamoto Cable (坂本ケーブル, Sakamoto Kēburu), a funicular railway operated by Hieizan Railway in Ōtsu, Shiga, Japan, is the longest funicular railway in Japan?
...that while Norwegian railway director Carl Abraham Pihl recommended in 1858 that a railway line should connect Drammen to Randsfjorden, forester Thorvald Meiddell argued for a channel instead and the decision for a rail line, which became the Randsfjorden Line, was made in a meeting of the Drammen chairmanship with the final vote in 1863 being six to three in favor of rail?