...that although the 1965 film Von Ryan's Express is set in Switzerland, the railway sequence at the film's conclusion was shot in Spain along the Caminito del Rey walkway in the El Chorro limestone gorge and the adjacent railway bridge?
...that although construction didn't begin until the 1970s, the idea of a tunnel between Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof and the Alter Postplatz, which eventually became the Verbindungsbahn, was first proposed in the late 1940s?
...that although the luxuryVenice-Simplon Orient Express uses some restored carriages from the original Orient Express service and operates over similar routes, it is not considered as the lineal descendant of that service?
...that the lion's head ornaments on the sides of the Venice Miniature Railway's passenger cars were supplied by the J.G. McLain Company for $400 (equivalent to $13,564 in 2023) each?
...that uneven forces at the crosshead on Vauclain compound equipped steam locomotives produced excess wear, which increased maintenance costs offsetting predicted fuel economies?
...that forty Variotrams were built by Transtech for Helsinki City Transport, but because Transtech was acquired by Bombardier during their production, the Helsinki trams were the only Variotrams to be produced under the Bombardier name?
...that southbound trains from France approach Vallorbe railway station from a southwesterly direction, and northbound trains from Lausanne approach from the northeast?