stackyFACTSBrown and dark grey became the absolute peak of fashion simply because trains blasted everyone with coal dust. Wearing white on a journey guaranteed you would arrive looking like a heavily exhausted coal miner.
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People genuinely acted like a three-hour train journey meant certain doom. It was entirely normal to throw massive, tearful departure parties at the station…
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For decades, you were forbidden from flushing a passenger train toilet while stopped at a station. What was the reason?
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Despite their monstrous diesel-electric horsepower, trains are defeated by mild geographic inclines. The efficiency of a train relies entirely on smooth steel…
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The London Underground tunnels twist and curve wildly, making trips much longer. Why weren't they dug in a straight line?
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James A Garfield was desperately rushed to the New Jersey shore after being shot by an assassin in eighteen eighty-one, requiring engineers to frantically…
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Why do British and American train tracks uniquely measure exactly four feet and eight inches wide?
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