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The ultimate jack-of-all-trades in the railyard that refuses to specialize. It boasts enough torque to slowly violently bang railcars together in the sorting…
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Trust humans to choose the dumbest possible color for public safety. In the early days of railways, a red light meant stop, green meant caution, and a bright…
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Indian Railways developed an official mobile application specifically dedicated to tracking the notoriously delayed national train network in real time.…
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These tiny, over-torqued locomotives will never get to pull an express line across the country. Their miserable fate is to perpetually push uncooperative…
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Because leaving brand new vehicles exposed to flying gravel, vandals, and bird droppings on a cross-country train ride is a terrible idea. These fully…
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Eurotunnel engineers digging the massive Channel Tunnel between England and France had to use highly advanced laser surveying technology to ensure the two…
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