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GM FRT Trains have been a popular mode of transportation for many centuries now.

Moreover, these transport systems continue to improve and surprise us of their never-ending capabilities.

The first American locomotive lost to a horse.In 1830, an industrialist designed a steam engine called the “Tom Thumb” w...
28/10/2021

The first American locomotive lost to a horse.
In 1830, an industrialist designed a steam engine called the “Tom Thumb” which was capable of going 18 mph. As it underwent tests near a railroad, a horse-drawn train pulled alongside it and was challenged to a race.

The Tom Thumb quickly strode ahead but later on broke a belt. This allowed the horse-drawn train to finish the race first.

The fastest commercial mag-lev train is found in China.Shanghai, China holds the fastest commercial magnetic-levitation ...
28/10/2021

The fastest commercial mag-lev train is found in China.
Shanghai, China holds the fastest commercial magnetic-levitation train in the world. This train can travel up to a maximum speed of 288 mph.

Luxury cars are rated to be the best way to travel by trainIf you’re looking to travel in style and comfort, consider ge...
28/10/2021

Luxury cars are rated to be the best way to travel by train
If you’re looking to travel in style and comfort, consider getting a ticket for a luxury train. These trains are known for delivering the best and most exciting travel experiences in the world.

You can ride the Hogwarts Express train in real life.Harry Potter fans will be pleased to know that the train used in th...
28/10/2021

You can ride the Hogwarts Express train in real life.
Harry Potter fans will be pleased to know that the train used in the Harry Potter films can be accessed in real life and is still currently running. The line goes through beautiful sceneries which include highland valleys.

No, it’s not that I’ve run out of facts, this is simply the words that came together to make up the name of a rail line:...
28/10/2021

No, it’s not that I’ve run out of facts, this is simply the words that came together to make up the name of a rail line: specifically the Wgasa Bush Line, a now-retired rail line that transported visitors around the outskirts of San Diego Zoo for over three decades.

Andy Faust, son of zoo designer Chuck Faust, confirms the story. “They were having a brainstorming session to come up with a name for the line and had hit a brick wall. No good ideas at all. Someone, in frustration, said ‘WGASA’. No-one knew what he meant. ‘Who gives a sh*t anyway?’ came the reply.”

The longest stretch of completely straight track in the world is in Australia. It’s part of the Trans-Australian Railway...
28/10/2021

The longest stretch of completely straight track in the world is in Australia. It’s part of the Trans-Australian Railway, and crosses the Nullarbor Plain for 478 km (297 miles), not deviating even slightly. It can even be seen from space, according to former astronaut Andy Thomas: “It’s a very fine line, it’s like someone has drawn a very fine pencil line across the desert.”

If you’re wealthy enough to own your own private railway carriage, you can travel in style across the USA, as Amtrak wil...
28/10/2021

If you’re wealthy enough to own your own private railway carriage, you can travel in style across the USA, as Amtrak will let you hitch your carriage onto scheduled train services between specified locations.

You don’t have to buy a ticket (saving you money), but you do have to pay an annual registration fee for your private carriage, as well as for a yearly safety inspection, a mileage rate based on where and when you’re traveling, and additional charges for any extra services you might require from Amtrak. Oh, and you have to buy the carriage in the first place of course.

Whenever there was a station announcement in the town of Pardubice (famous for its horse race), travelers would hear a s...
28/10/2021

Whenever there was a station announcement in the town of Pardubice (famous for its horse race), travelers would hear a snippet of “Já mám koně”, a children’s song about happy horses. Traveling through Prague’s main station would yield a burst of Czech composer Bedřich Smetana’s national classic “Vltava”, while down south in Brno you’d hear “Hvězdy jsou jak sedmikrásky nad Brnem”, a tale of a romantic evening in the city.

The underfunded and unloved British rail network comes in for a kicking from commuters all too often. What’s even strang...
28/10/2021

The underfunded and unloved British rail network comes in for a kicking from commuters all too often. What’s even stranger is that in order to keep some lines open, rail companies will run “ghost” services that aren’t advertised, and operate just often enough to keep a line or a station open, saving on the cost of consultation, possible renovation or total removal, and the public backlash that would come with removing a route, line or station only for ticket prices to keep increasing.

The course of literary history could have been changed to some degree on the afternoon of 9 June, 1865. Charles Dickens ...
28/10/2021

The course of literary history could have been changed to some degree on the afternoon of 9 June, 1865. Charles Dickens was traveling with his mistress Ellen Ternan (and, slightly oddly, her mother) when their train derailed while crossing a viaduct. Due to a miscommunication, a length of track had been removed, and the resulting crash killed ten passengers and injured 40 more.

One of the UK’s most famous criminal acts, the Great Train Robbery, was not named because it was a great robbery (it was...
28/10/2021

One of the UK’s most famous criminal acts, the Great Train Robbery, was not named because it was a great robbery (it was really pretty amateurish, if we’re being honest), but because of the amount of money taken. On 8 August 1963, a gang of 15 men attacked a mail train traveling from Glasgow to London and made off with ₤2.6 million (₤55 or €61 million in today’s money).

Between 2001 and 2010, the New York City Municipal Transportation Authority, instead of disposing of old trains, saved $...
28/10/2021

Between 2001 and 2010, the New York City Municipal Transportation Authority, instead of disposing of old trains, saved $30 million by turning them into new homes for… fish?

That’s right. In that time, 2,580 subway cars were taken to the MTA’s workshops in Manhattan, stripped, cleaned, loaded onto ships and taken off the coast of New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and South Carolina where they became artificial reefs, providing new habitats for marine life.

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