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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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Returning from the moon sounds glamorous until you realize you get locked in a camper van. NASA was terrified the Apollo 11 crew might bring back apocalyptic…
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For decades, you were forbidden from flushing a passenger train toilet while stopped at a station. What was the reason?
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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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Brown and dark grey became the absolute peak of fashion simply because trains blasted everyone with coal dust. Wearing white on a journey guaranteed you would…
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Because sitting in a dark, claustrophobic box rocketing through a soot-filled subterranean tunnel sounds like a perfectly relaxing way to start your day. When…
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