trains

This Train Map Is Not An Image, Just Pure Code

This version of London’s iconic tube map looks just like the official PDF of the transport network. In fact, it is created entirely from HTML, CSS and JavaScript.


The World’s Longest Lego Railway Includes Almost 4 Kilometres Of Track

It’s not quite as exciting as free-falling from the edge of space, but a group of 80 Lego enthusiasts in Denmark, led by Henrik Ludvigsen, now hold the Guinness Record for the world’s longest plastic toy train track — an honour that will certainly look fantastic on a resume.


What It Would Look Like If You Connected Every Subway In North America

From Vancouver all the way down to Mexico City, if every subway system in North America were connected, it would be quite lovely. At least on paper in this clever visualisation.


How To Dig Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel Without Killing Anyone

According to a report out today, the Labor government is set to announce funding for Melbourne’s A$9 billion metro rail tunnel, in addition to the A$40 million it has already contributed towards getting the project “shovel-ready”. Sounds good? We’ll see. Before any shovels have broken earth, the rail tunnel is facing a series of engineering challenges. Here’s how to build it without killing anyone.


The Indestructible Touchscreen Kiosks That Will Take Over New York’s Subways

Over the last few weeks, you might have heard about the ultra-futuristic information kiosks recently developed for the New York City subway system. It’s sci-fi stuff, thoroughly modernising the arteries of an often creaky metropolis. We headed down to New York’s financial district to check out a working prototype for ourselves.


Woman Tries To Get Phone From Tracks, Almost Gets Run Over By Train

Holy freaking smokes, almost getting hit by a train doesn’t get closer than this. A young woman in Sao Paulo, Brazil, had apparently dropped her phone onto the metro tracks and foolishly jumped down to retrieve it. She couldn’t get back on the platform, the train was coming into the station fast, AND SHE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE DIED.


New York City Is Getting Futuristic Touchscreen Subway Maps

This will be awesome and also deeply unsanitary. New York City has hired a company called Control Group to install 90 47-inch touchscreen subway maps around the city. It looks like real life world-of-tomorrow type stuff.


A Train Set Placemat Is The Best Kind Of Placemat

Doesn’t this placemat make you want to be five years old again? It’s a real Brio-style train set that you eat off.


Incredible Images Of The Massive New Tunnels Hollowing New York City

There is a 7m long, 180-tonne steel monster under Manhattan. Dead, resting deep somewhere under Grand Central Station and Park Avenue, this machine and her twin brother excavated the massive tunnels that you can see here, one of the largest public transportation works of our time.


Monster Machines: Snow Trains Fight Old Man Winter With Jet Engines

Even as parts of the US and Canada digs out after the snowstorm brought on by nor’easter Nemo, New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority isn’t worried about maintaining service along its northern New Haven Line. That’s thanks to a fleet of turbine-powered, slush-slinging, jet trains.


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