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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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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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If train wheels were perfect cylinders, every curve in the track would result in catastrophic derailment. To solve the problem of the outer wheel needing to…
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Before IKEA forced us to build our own bookshelves, Robert Hudson was out there letting corporations assemble their own rail networks. Sensing a boom in…
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Mourning in the 1800s was intensely dramatic. Following his assassination, an opulent private locomotive was stripped down, painted completely black, and…
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The name has zero connection to illicit substances. It is just the industry's profoundly lazy shorthand for 'refrigerated'. These thick-walled trailers burn a…
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