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Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks
There are people who stand every morning outside the Carroll Street station in Brooklyn staring dead-eyed into the middle distance. They stand still in ones and twos, clearly strangers to one another, mostly quiet, as though they’d stopped on their way to work to take note of some spectacular disaster in the sky. But you look in the general direction they’re all looking and there’s nothing there.
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See you in 8 hours
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1st December 1990 - Chunnel makes breakthrough
Shortly after 11 a.m. on December 1, 1990, 132 feet below the English Channel, workers drill an opening the size of a car through a wall of rock. This was no ordinary hole–it connected the two ends of an underwater tunnel linking Great Britain with the European mainland for the first time in more than 8,000 years.
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Runaway Boston Train was Tampered with, Governor Says
Driverless train carrying 50 people left a suburban Boston station and sped through 4 stations before it was stopped
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Driverless MBTA train carrying 50 travels through 4 Boston stops
A six-car train with passengers on board left a suburban Boston transit station without a driver Thursday and went through four stations without stopping. Secretary of Transportation Stephanie Pollack said Thursday that before the train left the Braintree station, the operator got off the train to execute a procedure that allows it to travel if there is a signal problem. Operator error is the current focus of the investigation.
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Night Mail
(1936)
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APT tilting train: The laughing stock that changed the world
It's 30 years since the Advanced Passenger Train carried its last passengers. In its short life it attracted scorn and mockery, but did the APT actually revolutionise the world of travel? Once upon a time, trains didn't tilt. They just ran quickly along straight lines and then slowed down when they came to a bend. These days, passengers on Italian-designed Pendolino trains on the UK's West Coast Main Line think nothing of listing as they make their way...
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The gauge of history
A train journey north shows how Russia has evolved—and regressed. (Dec 19)
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New York's Penn Station will be renamed "Empire Station Complex," delighting Sith lords everywhere
Pennsylvania Station in New York City is the pits. It's claustrophobic, confusing to navigate, has really terrible retail, and smells like a potent mixture of Cinnabon and a businessman's flop sweat.
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Who is Filming NYC Subway Videos From the Conductor's Chair?
Stressed out from your long subway commute? Chill out with a calming video of a long subway commute.
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A New Railway Rivals a Glamorous Past
Before Walt Disney came Henry Flagler, who made Florida a tourist hotspot by laying rails along the state’s east coast. Now, a new high-speed train is set to follow in his tracks.
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Train Robber Gordon Goody Dies Aged 86
Gordon Goody, one of the last surviving members of the Great Train Robbery gang, dies at the age of 86, more than 50 years on from the infamous heist.
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Charles Dickens and The Train of Death
The story behind the classic ghost story ‘The Signal-Man.’ By Paul Gallagher.
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Train crash in Germany kills at least 4, injures scores
Two trains crashed head-on in southern Germany early Tuesday, leaving at least four people dead and 40 seriously injured, the German news agency dpa said. More than three hours after the crash, emergency services were still trying to reach people trapped in the wreckage.
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First 'Silk Road' train arrives in Tehran from China
The first train to connect China and Iran arrived in Tehran on Monday loaded with Chinese goods, reviving the ancient Silk Road, the Iranian railway company said. The train, carrying 32 containers of commercial products from eastern Zhejiang province, took 14 days to make the 9,500-kilometre (5,900-mile) journey through Kazakstan and Turkmenistan. "The arrival of this train in less than 14 days is unprecedented," said the head of the Iranian railway company, Mohsen Pourseyed Aqayi.
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How a Single Mechanical Failure Sparked 625 [New York] MTA Delays
A problem at Union Square cascaded into hours of underground hell, revealing just how fragile the subway really is. By Robert Kolker.
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Railroad Photography of John Sanderson
“The large format camera slows down my process. Because of the camera weight and numerous steps involved before exposing film, one learns to think in a state of ‘accumulated photographic intentions’. That is, tending to do a lot of the compositional, conceptual and camera placement decisions ‘in the mind’s eye’, as Ansel Adams would say, prior to photographing.”
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The Longest Train in India
A 4,273km journey across India through the eyes of a photographer & filmmaker.
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‘They Don’t Make These Anymore’: Maintaining The MBTA’s 100-Year-Old Signals
The MBTA plans to spend $70 million next fiscal year to update its aging signals -- some of which are more than 100 years old.
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23 NYC subway facts to entertain even the most jaded commuter
There are nine ghost stations in the NYC Subway system.
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