Topic: Trains
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Videos
We Could Be Doing Something Useful With the Energy Under Our Feet
Some surprisingly not-so-unrealistic plans to capture unused energy all around us.
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Postcard
Sudan's Once Great Train System Is Now in Utter Disrepair
The country once boasted Africa's largest network. Now much is out of service, thanks to mismanagement and neglect.
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Maps
A Mapped History of Train Travel in the United States
On the 209th birthday of the first steam engine trip, how the Civil War impeded, then accelerated, the progress of America's trains.
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Maps
Visualizing How Poorly Amtrak's Route Network Serves Most of the U.S.
Some cities, you just can't reach.
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Why All of Grand Central's Clocks Are Wrong
The secret to catching a train there, revealed.
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Videos
Public Transportation ... for Your Car?
Behold the train-ferry for car commuters, and one of the craziest transit ideas we've ever seen.
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Maps
This Latest Upgrade Won't Fix Amtrak's WiFi
The best commuters can hope for is very fast internet very occasionally.
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Imagine: New York to Washington in 72 Minutes, Via Bullet Train
China's fastest trains were unveiled today. Why the northeast corridor won't be getting similar treatment any time soon.
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Videos
The Deadly Fun 'Sport' of Russian Train Surfing
Sure, it could kill you, but there's no thrill quite like riding on the roof of a 125 mph commuter train.
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Vienna's Naked Subway Woman Adds To Rich History of Nude Commuting
It's almost as if journalists have never heard about this happening.
