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AMAZING TRIVIA ABOUT TRAINS

Added on: 22nd Oct 2016

 

IN 1993 KERON THOMAS COMMANDEERED A

SUBWAY TRAIN IN NEW YORK FOR 3 HOURS

BEFORE GETTING CAUGHT. HE WAS 16 YEARS OLD

In 1993 Keron Thomas commandeered a subway train in New York for 3 hours before getting caught. He was 16 years old

 

 

AFTER THE GOVERNMENT PROVIDED SERVICE

STOPPED RUNNING OR BECAME UNRELIABLE,

PEOPLE IN SOME PARTS OF CAMBODIA BEGAN

CREATING MAKESHIFT TRAINS OUT OF

BAMBOO (CALLED NORRIES)

After the government provided service stopped running or became unreliable, people in some parts of Cambodia began creating makeshift trains out of bamboo (called norries).

 

 

THERE IS AN ABANDONED SUBWAY STATION

UNDER THE CITY HALL IN NEW YORK THAT YOU

CAN SEE AS YOU PASS BY ON THE 6 TRAIN

There is an abandoned subway station under the City Hall in New York that you can see as you pass by on the 6 train

 

 

JAPANESE TRAINS ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR SHARP

TIME SCHEDULE. IF A TRAIN IS EVEN 5 MINUTES

LATE THE PASSENGERS GET AN APOLOGY AND

A CERTIFICATE THAT THEY CAN SHOW AT WORK

TO PROVE THEY WERE DELAYED BECAUSE

OTHERWISE NOBODY WOULD BELIEVE THEM

Japanese trains are known for their sharp time schedule. If a train is even 5 minutes late the passengers get an apology and a certificate that they can show at work to prove they were delayed because otherwise nobody would believe them

 

 

ON THE RARE OCCASION THAT JAPANESE TRAINS

ARE 1 HOUR LATE OR MORE, IT CAN EVEN MAKE

THE NEWS (THE AVERAGE DELAY OF A TRAIN

IN JAPAN IN 2012 WAS 6 MINUTES)

On the rare occasion that Japanese trains are 1 hour late or more, it can even make the news (the average delay of a train in Japan in 2012 was .6 minutes)

 

 

THE JAPANESE ENGINEER WHO DESIGNED THE

KAMIKAZE PLANES OF WWII FELT SO GUILTY

FOR HIS INVENTION THAT AFTER THE WAR HE

DECIDED TO ONLY USE HIS SKILLS FOR PEACE.

HE DEVOTED HIS TIME TO DEVELOPING THE

NOW FAMOUS BULLET TRAIN

The Japanese engineer who designed the kamikaze planes of WWII felt so guilty that after the war that he decided to only use his skills for peace and devoted his time to developing the now famous bullet train

 

 

AFTER WWI, FRANCE TOOK THE RAILWAY CARS

WHERE GERMANY SIGNED THE OFFICIAL

SURRENDER DOCUMENT AND PUT THEM IN A

MUSEUM. WHEN GERMANY OVERRAN FRANCE

IN WWII, HITLER ORDERED THE RAILROAD CARS

TO BE BUT BACK IN THE EXACT SAME SPOT

WHERE THEY USED TO BE IN ORDER TO

HUMILIATE THE FRENCH

After WWI, France took the railway cars where Germany signed the official surrender document and put them in a museum. When Germany overran France in WWI, Hitler ordered the railroad cars to be but back in the exact same spot where they used to be in order to humiliate the French

 

 

WHEN TRAINS WERE FIRST INTRODUCED IN THE

UNITED STATES MANY PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT

WOMEN'S BODIES COULDN'T HANDLE THE SPEED

AND THAT THEIR UTERUSES WOULD FLY OUT

Ore trains that travel along the coast of Sweden generate up to 5 time the electricity that they consume. This electricity is then used to power coastal towns and villages

 


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