trainlopnik
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Dutch Train Wreck Ends Up Becoming Part Of Huge Sculpture And I Think It Works
The Dadaists, especially Marcel Duchamp, tended to embrace acts of chance when it came to their art. One of his pieces, The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even was on glass and partially shattered, which allegedly delighted Duchamp. In this context, the accident involving a metro train outside of Rotterdam that crashed through a…
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Watch A Train Full Of Cars Get Slowly Can Opener’d Under A Bridge
I know that ever since the clearance was boosted on that famous 3.35 m overpass in Durham, North Carolina, many of you may have despaired that the days of enjoying big helpings of can-openery schadenfreude were over. That’s not the case! There are still plenty of low-bridge disasters to enjoy, like this painful sardine-can-opening of…
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If A SWAT Team Needed A Truck That Was Also A Train It Would Look Like This
America’s public transit infrastructure may not be as lauded as Europe’s or Japan’s, but it still has a vast and wide-spread railway system. That system requires protection, which apparently might sometimes include a rail-truck like this full of skull-cracking law enforcers.
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Tram Bowling Is Everyone’s New Favourite Sport
Sometimes it is amazing the level of competition that some humans will dedicate themselves to. There are some who would spend a lifetime training to ride a horse really fast in a circle, or drive a car really fast in a circle. There are others still who have trained to become the best tram conductors…