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unusual facts about Rail tracks



Gaston Park

Named for landowner William H. Gaston, the ballpark existed where the State Fair grounds are today in the vicinity of Texas and Pacific rail tracks as well as the Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas.

High Speed Grinding

High Speed Grinding (HSG) is a rail care concept developed by the company Stahlberg Roensch from Seevetal, Germany.

José González-Lander

On his return to Venezuela Mr. Gonzalez-Lander was put in charge of the Ministry of Public Works' Office of Transportation Planning where he spearheaded the design of the backbone of the future Caracas Metro system, a 20 km underground double track rail line connecting the East and West ends of the city.

Manitoba Great Northern Railway

The railway was incorporated on March 10, 1909, to purchase the right-of-way and tracks of the Midland Railway of Manitoba between Gretna at the International Boundary and Portage la Prairie, as well as between Morden and the International Boundary.


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Ángel Maturino Reséndiz

Dominguez, a schoolteacher at Houston Independent School District's Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, was bludgeoned to death with a pickaxe in her apartment near the rail tracks.

Dey's Arena

The rink was torn down in the fall of 1895 to make way for the Canada Atlantic Railway, which opened a station at Rideau Street and the Canal and laid rail tracks alongside the eastern bank of the Canal.

Karl Linn

With an overflowing wait list for plots in the refurbished Karl Linn Community Garden, he set his sights on a large weed-filled vacant lot across the street where the light rail tracks of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) enter an underground tunnel.

Operation Wieniec

Pszenny’s team, consisting of four groups, began the operation on October 8, at 0:25, when the group of Sergeant Waclaw Klosiewicz blew up rail tracks on the route from Warsaw to Malkinia (near Zielonka).

RijnGouweLijn

It will be the first system in the Netherlands where light rail vehicles will share heavy rail tracks with heavy rail trains, similar to the tram-train systems around Karlsruhe and Saarbrücken, Germany.