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Long before regenerative braking was a corporate buzzword, Victorian engineers were using basic physics to save a quick buck. Many older stations in the…
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They should have been called water locomotives. To boil enough steam to push hundreds of tons of metal across the countryside, a standard steam train guzzled…
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Massive diesel freight trains are not actually powered by turning their wheels with diesel engines like an oversized pickup truck on the highway; instead, the…
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Why did engineers redesign Japanese bullet trains to have incredibly long, strange-looking, duck-bill snouts?
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Why is it statistically much deadlier to wear a seatbelt on a bullet train than riding completely unbuckled?
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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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