Train Facts that I’ve Engineered

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Acela Train | Amtrak

Longer trains might have a second locomotive to push the train from the back. This is primarily due to the fact that you can’t push anything from the front.

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In Japan, if someone uses a train to commit suicide, his family can be sued for damages; however, if he gets a train pregnant, he is under no legal obligation to support the offspring.

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The name “monorail” for a single-tracked train comes from the inventor’s favorite virus.

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Steam engine inventor James Watt created the term “horsepower” to allow those unfamiliar with technology to visualize how powerful an engine was. The term was also chanted during a brief period in the 1960’s when horses and mules demanded the right to vote.

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The longest direct train route is the Trans-Siberian Railway at nearly six thousand miles. Worst destination on that line? All of them.

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The heaviest train ever recorded was a 7.2 kilometer-long freight train in Australia that weighed as much as twenty-seven full-grown elephants, forty teenage elephants or half a blue whale, two rhinoceros and a couple of apples.

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Railroad systems help alleviate congestion on our highways… so, if you have a chest cold and find yourself on a highway, find a train.

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In the nineteenth century, many scientists thought that, if a woman traveled at fifty miles an hour, her uterus would fly out of her body; but, it turned out that, the few times it DID happen, it had nothing to do with how fast they were going.

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The fastest magnet-levitated trains are in Japan and can travel at 375 mph. It takes quite a distance to come to a full stop but most Japanese high-speed trains manage to stop before they get past New Zealand.

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In 1993, a sixteen year old boy managed to impersonate a conductor and drive a subway train for three hours before he was caught and forced to join a union…

24 thoughts on “Train Facts that I’ve Engineered”

      3. Nah, I’m drawing a Pallas cat now, thought extinct but just slumming it in Antartica. I’m glad you’ve nearly finished HTGROAB. I might need it soon 😃

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  3. When push comes to shove, you can push someone from the front who’s trained not to push back, but then some might think you’re on track to be a MAGA Republican and the other guy is a wimpy Democrat.

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