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Red Sox fan electrocuted train surfing from Yankee Stadium
A Red Sox fan on his way home from Yankee Stadium died Wednesday when he tried to climb on top of a Metro-North train and was electrocuted by overhead wires, creating a chaotic situation where riders were trapped for more than two hours, MTA officials and riders said. The Metro-North train from Yankee Stadium to New Haven, Conn., left the ball field just before 11 p.m. on Wednesday. As the train was running from Larchmont to Mamaroneck about half an hour later, a pair of brothers tried to climb from inside a car onto the roof.
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Hello Kitty Bullet Train Debuts In Japan This Week. In Shocking Pink
Resplendent in shocking pink, a sleek "Hello Kitty" bullet train, complete with special carriages festooned with images of the global icon from Japan, has been unveiled before it chugs into service this week. The special shinkansen or bullet train will run for the next three months between the western cities of Osaka and Fukuoka from Saturday, the West Japan Railway firm said, hoping that one of the country's most famous exports will boost tourism.
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Human body parts found in crack on bonnet of Shinkansen bullet train
At around 2:10 p.m. on 14 June, the Nozomi No. 176 Superexpress Shinkansen headed to Tokyo from Hakata made a regular stop at Kokura Station in Kyushu’s northernmost city of Kitakyushu, where a large crack on its bonnet was discovered. Despite the damage, the train continued on its journey, travelling over the Kanmon Strait to the main island of Honshu, where the vehicle underwent a more thorough inspection at Shin-Shimonoseki Station in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
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Maglev trains: why aren't we gliding home on hovering carriages?
It is lightning quick, clean, green – and expensive. But shouldn’t we think again about magnetic levitation?
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The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations
It is a scene that plays out each weekday morning across Tokyo. Suit-clad office workers, gaggles of schoolchildren, and other travelers gamely wend their way through the city’s sprawling rail stations. To the casual observer, it is chaos; commuters packed shoulder-to-shoulder amid the constant clatter of arriving and departing trains. But a closer look reveals something more beneath the surface: A station may be packed, yet commuters move smoothly along concourses and platforms.
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A couple of boring videos
The Perth Airport tunnel borers have broken through to the site of the planned Airport Central Station.
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Hello Kitty bullet train to debut in Japan on June 30
West Japan Railway Co. said Friday it will begin operating a Hello Kitty-themed shinkansen bullet train on June 30. The interior and seats of the 500-series shinkansen to be used for daily-round trips between Shin-Osaka Station in Osaka Prefecture and Hakata in Fukuoka Prefecture will feature Sanrio Co.'s Hello Kitty character, the company said.
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I rode China's superfast bullet train that could go from New York to Chicago in 4.5 hours — and it shows how far behind the US really is
Traveling to China can often feel like visiting the future. Nowhere is this feeling more apparent than when you encounter China’s high-speed railway...
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‘The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down’
Internal New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority documents show everything we thought we knew about subway delays was wrong. By Aaron Gordon.
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Vancouver to Seattle ultra-high-speed rail announcement scheduled for Friday
A fast train to Seattle looks to be a step closer to reality. On the heels of the Washington state legislature voting to move forward on further study of high-speed rail in the region, the B.C. government has announced Premier John Horgan will be joined in Downtown Vancouver on Friday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to make an announcement regarding ultra-high-speed corridor service connecting Vancouver with Seattle and Portland.
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The Freedom Railway: a 1,860km Journey Across Africa
The 1,860km-long Uhuru Railway is an ageing yet vital lifeline that connects rural communities across some of Tanzania and Zambia’s most spectacular landscapes.
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Sleep apnea led to tired engineers and 2 train crashes, NTSB says
Sleep apnea led to two commuter railroad accidents within 13 weeks of one another, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. The NTSB said the sleep disorder caused engineer fatigue and that in both accidents, engineers failed to stop their trains before reaching the end of a terminating track. One of the accidents -- a New Jersey Transit train packed with passengers at the height of morning rush hour in September 2016 -- entered Hoboken station, failed to stop, overrode a bumping post at the end of the track and came to rest after striking a wall of the terminal, according to the NTSB.
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High-speed U.S. Passenger Train Decouples in Maryland
A high-speed Amtrak train carrying more than 50 people decoupled on Tuesday as it traveled northward in Maryland, causing no injuries but highlighting concerns about the U.S. passenger carrier's safety record after a series of accidents.
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China’s Last Steam Train
The Jiayang Steam Train in Sichuan Province has been running non-stop since 1959, when it was built as part of Chairman Mao’s Great Leap Forward.
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At least 2 dead, 50 injured after Amtrak train collides with freight train in SC
A Miami-bound Amtrak train appeared to be on the wrong track when it collided with a freight train in South Carolina early Sunday morning, killing at least 2 people and injuring 116, officials said.
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Railroad Workers Found To Be At Greater Risk For Cancer
Any worker employed by the railroad finds themselves faced with a lot of dangerous situations, from loading the trains to working on the tracks to being the engineer of a train. However, there is one risk that railroad workers face that has been growing in ever-greater numbers in recent years: the risk of cancer. Just …
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The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth
How excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules dramatically inflate capital costs for transit in New York.
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World's steepest funicular railway starts chugging up Swiss mountainside
Funicular railways are cable-based train lines that shuttle carriages up steep inclines, and they don't come any steeper than the Stoosbahn that has just opened in Switzerland that connects the mountain village of Stoos to the valley below.
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Train carriage falls on US motorway
Train carriages have plummeted on to a motorway in Washington state, causing "multiple" fatalities, police say. The train derailed and the carriages fell on to the I-5 highway below. Images from the scene show that all the carriages of the high speed train appear to have left the track. It was Amtrak's first passenger service to run on a new, shorter route, connecting Olympia and Tacoma. Train 501 had left Seattle, heading south for Portland, at 0600 local time.
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Amtrak train derails in Washington; fatalities reported
High-speed train derails south of Seattle, spilling train cars onto busy interstate below
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