- A railroad on the moon? The Feds are asking Northrop Grumman to figure it out The aerospace company has been asked to study the feasibility of a so-called ‘Lunar Railroad’ https://qz.com/northrop-grumman-lunar-railroad-moon-darpa-space-1851348742
- The Incredible Story of the US Army’s Earth-Shaking, Off-Road Land Trains Oh, your pickup has a lift? That’s cute. https://www.thedrive.com/news/33645/the-incredible-story-of-the-us-armys-earth-shaking-off-road-land-trains
- An Australian O-Bahn Mass Transit System Combines Buses, Trains, and Trams. Here’s How It Works The O-Bahn bus system in Adelaide, Australia, is one of the more unique mass-transit systems in effect today. https://www.thedrive.com/news/an-australian-o-bahn-mass-transit-system-combines-buses-trains-and-trams-heres-how-it-works
- This Massive 1960s Off-Road Nuclear powered Overland Train Has a Kitchen, Beds, Bathroom Inside: The TC-497 didn’t see much of a service life, but it’s the best preserved LeTourneau overland train by far. https://www.thedrive.com/news/this-massive-1960s-off-road-overland-train-has-a-kitchen-beds-bathroom-inside
- In 1984, the UK tested their nuclear waste “flasks” that they carried along their passenger toting railways, to make sure if there was ever some sort of disaster, no nuclear radiation could leak out or cause issues. So how does science work? Take technology, in this case a train, and run that at 100mph into the nuclear waste storage vessel. OF COURSE! SCIENCE! Amazing… that flask looked like a rock and tore through the train like tinfoil. Amazing. Here’s an article on the test event: https://www.thedrive.com/news/36668/crashing-a-100-mph-train-into-a-nuclear-fuel-container-is-our-kind-of-science
- How Electric ‘Infinity Trains’ Could Run Forever on One Initial Charge They’re being developed by the specialty engineering spinoff of an F1 team. https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-electric-infinity-trains-could-run-forever-on-one-initial-charge
- How Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Trains Are Transforming Rail Travel https://www.cntraveler.com/story/hydrogen-powered-trains-transforming-rail-travel
- Rod Stewart Spent 23 Years Building An Elaborate Model Train World — And It’s Unbelievable https://allthatsinteresting.com/rod-stewart-model-trains
- To improve productivity and safety, we are working with Jinki Ittai Co., Ltd. and Nippon Signal Co., Ltd. to develop multifunctional railway heavy machinery that combines a humanoid heavy machinery robot with a railway construction vehicle. Please check this out for details. https://x.com/news_jrwest/status/1514919764153434113
- The steepest funicular in the world! A masterpiece of engineering, notice how the train pods swivel as the gradient increases. Incredible! The cabins are connected to a hydraulic system that makes sure the cabins swivel and remain level and flat so passengers don’t fly off their seats! —> How the Rotating ‘Stoosbahn’ Train Climbs a Mountain as Steep as 47.7 Degrees With cylindrical passenger cabins, it might just be the world’s strangest train. https://www.thedrive.com/news/43145/how-the-rotating-stoosbahn-train-climbs-a-mountain-as-steep-as-47-7-degrees
- The McKeen Motor Car Company, and their gasoline powered 6 cylinder ICE motor engine railway train. https://shiawasseehistory.com/mckeen.html more: https://steampunkvehicles.tumblr.com/search/mckeen
- High Speed Railway Train Track laying machines are unreal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eublca9L918 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMXfU8blPMM
- In Japan, making an above ground train line into a subway in 3 hours time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BYW4YYqG5A
- The “Mercury”: NYC’s First Streamlined Train (1936) https://www.american-rails.com/mercury.html
The New York Central Railroad’s Mercury train was a streamlined passenger train that operated between Chicago and Detroit in 1936. The Mercury was an experimental train that was designed to be fast and innovative, and was named after the Roman god of messengers. The train was marketed as the “Train of Tomorrow” and was designed by industrial design pioneer Henry Dreyfuss.
- Neil Young played with a train on stage last year to boot: https://photos.app.goo.gl/MqAXsTESKHSp8TCS7
- The “Mercury”: NYC’s First Streamlined Train (1936) https://www.american-rails.com/mercury.html
The New York Central Railroad’s Mercury train was a streamlined passenger train that operated between Chicago and Detroit in 1936. The Mercury was an experimental train that was designed to be fast and innovative, and was named after the Roman god of messengers. The train was marketed as the “Train of Tomorrow” and was designed by industrial design pioneer Henry Dreyfuss.