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Leschenault Lady
 
72nd Street station original entrance
  • ... that the original entrance to New York City's 72nd Street station (pictured) was once called "a miserable monstrosity as to architecture" and recommended for demolition?
 
Carlisle & Finch No. 42 Trolley and Trailer
 
A train of the Aoimori Railway arriving at Kominato Station
  • ... that trees keep the trains (pictured) running at Kominato Station?
  • ... that Silver Hill station may have been named for rumors of Captain Kidd's treasure – or just a stand of trees?
  • ... that some of the proposed routes for the current effort to build a Uinta Basin Rail line are based on routes surveyed more than 100 years ago?
  • ... that the Astor Place station was flooded by a subterranean river after firefighters extinguished a blaze at a building above it?
  • ... that Hastings station had neither platforms nor shelter for waiting passengers?
  • ... that in one of Singapore's largest drainage diversions, a canal had to be redirected into steel pipes while constructing Chinatown MRT station?
 
Siuro railway station
 
Kangasala railway station
 
Bridge at Aix repaired with a German railway-gun carriage
 
Statue of Sir Nigel Gresley