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April 2021

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CFCL Australia locomotive VL355 at North Dynon, Victoria, Australia, in 2008
 
The non-revenue junction between the Cermak and Congress branch that used to serve Blue Line trains, seen in 2008
 
A Citadis 305 tram in the wire-free section on George Street in December 2019
 
The restored Cavell Van on display at the Kent and East Sussex Railway in 2013
  • ...that the Cavell Van, named in memory of Edith Cavell, carried the only three sets of British remains repatriated following the end of World War I?
 
Interior view of the Catesby Tunnel in 2014
 
A Castle Shannon Incline car in the late 1890s
 
Cass Scenic Railroad Heisler #6 along with Shay #11 lead a loaded log train down the former C&O Greenbrier Division mainline in 2007
 
A Casablanca Tramway car on line T1 at Place des Nations-Unies station in 2013
  • ...that within a year of its opening, the Casablanca Tramway had met its objectives by carrying over 100,000 passengers a day?
 
Two San Francisco Cable Cars built by Carter Brothers pass each other in 2005
 
Illustration of the Carnarvon Castle station area with two loaded railway wagons, stacks of slates and road carts
 
Bryn Teifi station on the Carmarthen–Aberystwyth line in 1962
 
The main facade of Carlisle station in 2018
 
Beijing Airport Line vehicles in the Tianzhu Depot in 2013
 
Amtrak's Cape Codder at Buzzards Bay in 1996
 
Several streetcars on Canal Street circa 1904
 
CPR No. 2816 Empress on an excursion in 2008
 
Canada Southern locomotive number 337 with a passenger train at Comber Station in the late 19th century
  • ...that Canada Southern Railway's charter specified that the railroad was to be constructed using a broad gauge of 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm), but that requirement was repealed in 1869 allowing it to use the standard gauge of 4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm)?
 
One of the northbound platforms at Camden Town station in 2008
  • ...that the northbound platforms at Camden Town tube station are directly above the southbound platforms due the need to keep directly beneath the narrow roads above them to avoid having to pay compensation to landowners during construction?
 
1904 Erie Railroad advertisement promoting travel to Cambridge Springs