I found this incredible link: the Rayak Train Museum proposal, which proposes to preserve and reveal the country's modern history by transforming the train stations, and train factories into a museum, in the city of Rayak.
The first railway was built in Lebanon during the Ottoman Empire. The French-established Société des Chemins de fer Ottomans économiques de Beyrouth- Damas-Hauran which was granted a concession in 1891. In the Beginning of August 1895 the first train took off from the port of Beirut to Rayak railway station. In Rayak, officials from all over Europe and the region where waiting for the train to arrive in order to celebrate what it was as the beginning of the Middle Eastern rail history.
Visit the link at: http://www.rayakrailway.org/english/rayak_railway_project_info_en.html
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