Portal:Trains/Did you know/Main page, 2022

2022[edit]

... that the head on top of the Museo Cabeza de Juárez (pictured) inspired the pictogram of Guelatao metro station?
... that a group of Boy Scouts provided first aid to victims of the 2022 Missouri train derailment before first responders arrived?
... that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
... that Science Park station was built despite the objections of the operating agency?
... that traffic at Greymouth railway station increased significantly after the opening of the Otira Tunnel?
... that the Stony Brook Railroad was in business from 1845 to 2022, but never owned a single locomotive or ran a single train?

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... that the two-mile-long (3.2 km) Moshassuck Valley Railroad (pictured) operated independently for 105 years?
... that the Four-Track News is not news about the car music cassettes of the 1950s, but an illustrated magazine of the early 1900s on travel and education put out by the New York Central Railroad?
... that the arches of the 1849 Belvidere Bridge consist of six pre-cast ribs bolted together?
... that Chabacano metro station has a composition named after it and it served as a film location for the 1990 film Total Recall?
... that Darien, Connecticut, was once home to a train station built inside a cemetery?

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... that Thomas Hall made an electric train (pictured) that received power from the rails on which it travelled instead of onboard batteries, a new technology at the time?
... that the Green Line Extension, which partially opens today [21 March 2022], was first proposed a century ago?
... that the Metropolitan main line was the first electrified revenue rapid transit in the United States?
... that the Warwick Railway successfully operated independently for decades despite having just three employees, two locomotives, and less than a mile (1.6 km) of track?
... that the route of the former Waycross Air Line Railroad is now an important CSX Transportation line?
... that the Lake Street Transfer was a double-decked transfer station accommodating two different elevated lines?
... that Balbuena metro station was flooded with sewage following a failure attributed to an unrelated fire?
... that the name of Church Street station has been changed twice since 2019?
... that Aubin Grove railway station was built mostly off-site to minimise disruption to a nearby freeway?
... that Amory Street station and Babcock Street station replaced four predecessor stations?
... that staff had to be deployed on the first day of service at Woodleigh MRT station to assist commuters who alighted there mistakenly because they did not realize it had opened?
... that the Connecticut Valley Railroad successfully fooled the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad into purchasing it by pretending that it planned to expand northwards?
... that Singapore's North East MRT line saw the first launch of the Art-in-Transit (AiT) programme – a public artwork showcase on the MRT network?
... that in 1848, the Hartford and New Haven Railroad was "regularly run with greater speed than any other railroad in the United States"?
... that the Nashua and Lowell Railroad was the first railroad built in the state of New Hampshire?
... that the Nishi-Okoppe and Yubetsu stations on the former Nayoro Main Line are now the site of a hotel and fire station respectively?

... that to promote the KiHa 80 series train (example pictured), a film was made of a nine-car set on the Kawagoe, Jōban and Tōhoku Main Lines?
... that the fortunes of the Hardwick and Woodbury Railroad were inextricably linked to those of the Woodbury Granite Company?

... that the Providence and Worcester Railroad (train pictured) became independent in 1973 after 85 years of being leased?
... that the Third Street Railroad Trestle is the last remaining wooden trestle bridge in downtown Austin, Texas?