15 Fast & Heavy Facts About Trains That’ll Move You

Trains in Japan are so punctual, that if they are even 5 minutes late, the passengers get a formal apology, and most times they will even get a "delay certificate." Delays that are over an hour will also appear on the news.

Paris Metro trains drive on the right rather than the left and its tunnels are narrower than mainline ones in order to prevent it from being absorbed into the national railway network.

When trains were introduced in the U.S, many people believed that “women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and that their “uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies if they were accelerated to that speed.”

The average length of a freight train in the US is 2000 meters/1.25 miles long.

If you own your own rail car, Amtrak will let you attach it to one of their trains and go along for the ride.

Some train wheels used to be made of paper for a quieter ride, but they were eventually banned for safety reasons.

Each train car transporting coal from the mine to the power plant loses up to 3% of its load, a literal ton of coal.

There is a secret train platform beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York.

A freight train can move 1 ton of material approximately 500 miles using 1 gallon of diesel fuel (on average).

Trains in Japan have been designed to bark like a dog and snorts like a deer to scare deer away from the tracks in a bid to reduce the number of animal deaths on the railway line.