Alastair Rainsbury wrote:

Alastair Rainsbury "CTID" )

Amazingly, it is illegal in all 48 US states for a railway train to be equipped
with brakes.

http://www.ignis-fatuus.org

I haven't looked at the above site, but if it can't even get the number of
US states correct, why should the rest be believed? (There are 50 states,
since, IIRC, the 60s.)