trains
Vehicles
NYC Subways Get LCD Screens Showing Every Train In Real Time
1:00AM Adam Frucci | As a New Yorker, this gets me very excited: the Bedford Ave L station just got an LCD screen that shows exactly where all the cars on the line are, so you know how long you’ll have to wait. More »
Vehicles
10:00AM Damian Francis | Ah, Sydney’s CityRail, I hate you for your expensive fares, old trains and inability to stick to your own timetable. More »
City Rail Has Nothing On Tokyo’s PASMO
10:00AM Damian Francis | Ah, Sydney’s CityRail, I hate you for your expensive fares, old trains and inability to stick to your own timetable. More »
Vehicles
9:20AM Sean Fallon | It’s only a concept at the moment, but designer Matthiew Tarrit claims that his Polar Vehicle arctic base was created in cooperation with polar scientists. More »
Polar Vehicle Is Like A Giant Lab In A Train Rolling On Skis
9:20AM Sean Fallon | It’s only a concept at the moment, but designer Matthiew Tarrit claims that his Polar Vehicle arctic base was created in cooperation with polar scientists. More »
Vehicles
Travel Through Dubai At 1316km/h
8:00AM Jesus Diaz | After the futuristic Dubai, here is the real Dubai as seen in high-speed from its new metro, inaugurated on September 9. Impressive, in a New York and Miami get drunk and have a bastard child kind of way. [Thanks Gerald]
Vehicles
POV Video Of Two Trains Colliding Head-On
7:20AM Adam Frucci | Yikes. Here’s a video taken from the front of a freight train as it barrels head-on into another freight train. No one was killed, thankfully, but you can see a dude bailing from the oncoming train right before it hits. More »
Science
Japan’s Electromagnetic Trains Cause Paperclips To Dance
4:40AM Adam Frucci | These paperclips, when placed on the floor of a japanese commuter train, stand up on their ends and dance whenever the train accelerates or brakes thanks electromagnetism. More »
Design
NYC Subway Mapped To Street Gauntlet
5:20AM Mark Wilson | At last, your claims of knowing New York’s subway system “like the back of your hand” will be more than just boasting (OK, lying). More »
Robots
Computerised Train Runs Over Local Man For “Unknown Reason”
3:45PM Dan Nosowitz | We here at Gizmodo are anything but fearmongering sensationalists. We’re analytical, skeptical, and rational at all costs. That being said, this robot train ran over some dude in Miami and everyone in south Florida should run for their lives. More »
Phones
When Does A Text Message Cost You $9.6 Million?
12:00PM Jack Loftus | As one of our T drivers found out this week in Boston, it costs that much when you send it while driving the Green Line and plow into the back of a stopped train. More »
Toys
