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Monument Square, Portland, in 1909 showing the streetcar lines later used by PLI

...that cars of the Portland–Lewiston Interurban, which connected its namesake cities in Maine, were capable of multiple unit operation, but difficulties operating over municipal streetcar tracks discouraged the practice?
...that Peartree railway station in Derby, England, one of only two stations remaining open in the city, was reopened in 1976 in order to transport workers to and from the Rolls-Royce plant via the private Sinfin North station on the plant property in Sinfin?
...that Transnet Freight Rail's Class 21E dual-voltage electric locomotives recently introduced in South Africa are designed so they can haul their loads directly from the mines under 3 kV DC electrification all the way to Richards Bay under the line's 25 kV AC system?
...that the preserved Natal Railway Company 0-4-0WT locomotive Natal, the first locomotive to operate in revenue service in South Africa, was reconstructed in the 1940s from little more than its frame, wheels, springs, cylinders and some odd loose parts?