• the Florida Railroad was the first railroad to connect the east and west coasts of Florida and the longest railroad to be completed in Florida before the start of the American Civil War?
• the Cross-Harbor Rail Tunnel (map at right) is a proposed underwater tunnel for rail transport of freight between central New Jersey and southern New York City, United States?
• the San Francisco Bay Area will have a new direct rail to ferry connection when the Hercules intermodal rail station and WETA ferry terminal is constructed?
• the Indian Railways Fan Club is the Internet's largest website devoted to the Indian Railways and rail transport in the Indian subcontinent?
• the Kaimai Tunnel running through the Kaimai Ranges is the longest rail tunnel in New Zealand?
• the Olympic Javelin is a high-speed rail service announced as part of the public transport regeneration of London in readiness for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
• the Mauch Chunk and Summit Hill Switchback Railroad, the second railroad built in the United States, was a major precursor to the roller coaster?
• on March 4, 1839, William F. Harnden became the first person to send an express freight shipment by rail?
  
• in his lifetime, Thomas Brassey was involved in building one-third of the railway built in the United Kingdom and in one-twentieth of the railway built in the world?
• delay certificates issued by railway companies in Japan and Germany to passengers for tardy trains are considered valid reasons by superiors for reporting late to school or work?
• Carrollton Viaduct in Baltimore, Maryland is the world's oldest railway bridge still in use, and that its cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1828?
• John J. Bernet was known for bringing railroad companies back from bankruptcy to solvency, earning him the nickname "Doctor of Sick Railroads"?
• William Dudley Chipley first brought rail lines to Pensacola, Florida, connecting the Atlantic coast of Florida with other Gulf Coast states for the first time?
• in 1914, railway official Lucius Seymour Storrs became president of the Connecticut Company?
• businessman Ginery Twichell started in stage lines before transitioning to railroads and three terms in the U.S. Congress?
• Alvin Adams founded Adams and Company, forerunner to Adams Express Company, to haul express freight shipments by rail in 1840?

Facts on topics related to Rail transport

Locomotive

• Fr. John Willms once stood in the way of a locomotive in order to allow his congregation to hear a sermon in silence?
• Sans Pareil (pictured), one of five locomotives to compete in the 1829 Rainhill Trials, was later used on the Bolton and Leigh Railway?
• in 1883, Southern Pacific Railroad tried to block the California Southern Railroad from installing a level junction across their tracks in Colton, California, by moving a locomotive slowly back and forth at the intersection point?
• the Norwegian manufacturing company Thune, started in 1815 as a blacksmith's workshop, later expanded to build agricultural machinery, turbines and locomotives?
• the Munich Soviet declared war on Switzerland, for their refusal to lend sixty locomotives?
• the Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a locomotive supposedly renumbered after a psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash?
• the Fairy Queen is the longest-operating steam locomotive in the world?
• the gardens of St George's Square, Pimlico, London, contain a statue of William Huskisson MP, the first person ever to be run over and killed by a railway engine?
• when the John Bull ran under its own power in 1981 it became the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world?