11Paper car wheel
Some train wheels used to be made of paper for a quieter ride, but they were eventually banned for safety reasons.
12Transporting Coal
Each train car transporting coal from the mine to the power plant loses up to 3% of its load, a literal ton of coal.
13Secret train platform
There is a secret train platform beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York.
14Freight train
A freight train can move 1 ton of material approximately 500 miles using 1 gallon of diesel fuel (on average).
15Train Sounds
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.
16Train track
There is a rare old train track running through Germany, but it all lies on Belgian soil. This creates five chunks of German land which are not actually connected to the rest of Germany.
17Train Wheels
Trains stay on the tracks because of weight and the angle of the wheels, not the lip or flange on the inside of the wheel.
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18Train on Ferry
The passenger trains between the German city of Puttgarden and the Danish city of Rødby take the ferry to get from one side to the other.
19Mauritania Railway
Mauritania Railway is a 430-mile long railway line laid across the Sahara Desert in Africa whose sole purpose is to transport iron ore with 3-kilometer longs trains.
20German railways
German railways during World War 2 forced adult prisoners to pay 4 pennies per kilometer while on their journey to death camps but children under the age of 4 traveled for free.
