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WHY YOU WANT RAIL ON KALASHNIKOV

by CopyPastaArchive December 15, 2022, 8:24 pm

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TIL the Flying Hamburger was Germany’s first fast diesel train right before Hitler took power. It attained a speed of around 160 km/h. It was the fastest regular rail connection in its time. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and started stockpiling fuel, it was put out of commission.

by whatilearned November 21, 2022, 4:08 am

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British Rail Class 507

by CopyPastaArchive November 5, 2022, 7:46 am

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TIL that it’s the *Swiss* – not the Japanese, or the Indians – who travel the most by rail, per capita, in kilometres. Who would have guessed?

by whatilearned October 30, 2022, 4:00 am

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TIL the length of the US rail network is twice that of Europe

by whatilearned October 6, 2022, 9:08 pm

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TIL the original Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963) in New York enabled direct rail access to New York City from the south for the first time. It was considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and one of the great architectural works of NYC. Its loss galvanized the historic preservation movement

by whatilearned July 19, 2022, 3:22 am

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A man found a woman tied to the rail tracks and untied her.

by cringeyjokesman July 13, 2022, 4:49 pm

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Ahead of Planned Rail Line, Archaeologists Uncover Early Medieval Cemetery

by HistoryBuff June 26, 2022, 2:24 am

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TIL that the Aldabra white-throated rail has evolved back into existence TWICE. The rail is an example of a rarely observed phenomenon called iterative evolution, in which the same ancestral lineage produces parallel offshoot species at different points in time.

by whatilearned June 14, 2022, 4:06 am

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TIL that Spain has the longest high speed rail network in Europe and is second in the world behind China.

by whatilearned May 15, 2022, 11:54 am

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Please Rail Me

by CopyPastaArchive March 5, 2022, 8:04 am

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TIL the reason public trams died out in American cities is because they were forced to subsidize infrastructure for cars and allow them to use tram-lines as roads thereby slowing down all rail networks, making them uncompetitive.

by whatilearned February 9, 2022, 4:05 pm

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