...that Ferrovie dello StatoClass 6252-6-0steam locomotives are commonly known by the nickname Signorine (Italian for 'young ladies'), or Signorina in the singular, which is a reference to the graceful lines of the locomotive as popularly perceived?
...that during construction of the failed Algemba railway and pipeline project from 1919 to 1921 led by the Bolsheviks in Russia, as many as 35,000 workers died, sometimes with hundreds of people dying every day, from poor food, inadequate shelter and disease?
Guangzhou Women and Children's Medical Center Station platform in 2010
...that in 1964 Indian Railways set a timeline to restore the Pamban Bridge following its partial destruction in a cyclone as a six-month project, but once civil engineerE. Sreedharan was put in charge of the project, one of the first in his celebrated career, he restored the bridge in just 46 days?
A Siemens O&K train at Inclán station on Line H in 2008
...that Siemens-Schuckert Orenstein & Koppel rolling stock made up the entirety of the trains used on the Buenos Aires Underground's three lines built by the Hispanic-Argentine Company for Public Works and Finances (CHADOPyF) and has since served on every line of the Underground (with the exception of Line B which uses third rail electrification) from 1934 to the present?
Tazu Stationn on the Sanko Line in 2008
...that although the first 13.9-kilometre long (8.6 mi) segment of the Sankō Line between Gōtsu and Kawado in Japan opened in 1930, the line was not fully completed to Miyoshi until 1975?
Photograph of the railway of the Prince Imperial taken 1859 by Charles-Louis Michelez
A Puerto Deseado Railway passenger train in Las Heras, Santa Cruz Province, in the late 1920s
...that the Puerto Deseado Railway in Argentina was considered the southernmost passenger railway in the world, due to other lines of the region focusing on exploitation and transport of natural resources (such as the Comodoro Rivadavia Railway did with petroleum) rather than operating passenger services?
...that the New York Central Railroad's MU Cars built beginning in 1906 were the first electric multiple units ever bought by the New York Central Railroad and the majority of them continued in service until the mid-1960s?