railroads
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Japanese High-Speed Rail Line Was Brought To Standstill By Tiny Slug That Fried On Power Cable
Japanese rail company JR Kitakyushu says that one small slug was responsible for a power outage and subsequent delays for an estimated 12,000 commuters on a high-speed rail line in Kyushu on May 30, CNN reported on Tuesday.
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Blood On The Tracks In Pullman: Chicagoland’s Failed Capitalist Utopia
In 1880 industrialist George Pullman set out to build a capitalist utopia. The town of Pullman was established just outside of Chicago as a model community — a place that was supposed to produce both happy workers and a nice return for Pullman’s investors. It turned out to be a miserable failure. And conditions in…
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How The Railroad Wiped Out Passenger Pigeons
The advent of the railroad collapsed our notions of time and space, and it carved out entire industries whole — we of the 21st century have only the internet for comparison. It also swallowed entire species: The story of how railroads drove the passenger pigeon to extinction — and bison to the brink of it…
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This Is What Happens When You Mix Floods And Railroads
Mayhem, that’s what will always happen if you buil a railroad or any other structure in the middle of a water stream without the proper support. This video, taken in Stackpool, Ontario, it’s a good demonstration of that simple principle.