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We simply bolted thousands of heavy steel boxes together and forced them to slither along parallel iron strips. It is beautifully primitive yet wildly…
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Despite their monstrous diesel-electric horsepower, trains are defeated by mild geographic inclines. The efficiency of a train relies entirely on smooth steel…
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Japan’s bullet trains used to create deafening sonic booms when exiting tunnels. How did engineers finally fix this?
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You can take a flawlessly clean train practically to an isolated cabin in the deep mountains. Their intense obsession with punctuality makes the rest of the…
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Facing bankruptcy, a small electric railway in Japan officially appointed a stray calico cat named Tama as their stationmaster. Adorned in a tiny custom hat,…
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