trains

I came across this new video made by a guy with a good YouTube channel that I like. In it, he rides some of the most interesting trains in Japan. I live here and even I didn't know about several of these. Japan is really a paradise for people who like trains. You may have an image in your mind...

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/02/7227603-desperate-sick-indonesians-lie-across-railroad-tracks-as-therapy First of all: There's a current flow in standard railroad tracks? :confused: Second: It makes you wonder what exactly convinces them that electric current will cure...

I was just thinking, a return journey to a nearby town currently costs me 26% more by train (standard class) than if i was to drive and pay petrol. Would it not be in the governments interest to reduce traffic and increase environmentally friendly trains to legislate a cap on rail ticket costs...

Looks to me like the airline sector is basically OVER. Except for crossing oceans, in a few years there will be NO air travel; Oil prices will prohibit this except for the rich. Which means, I think, that we will see huge growth in the railroad sector at all levels, and possibly even entirely...

Japan's maglev train sets record Excerpt: Wow. My psychic prediction for today: Trains of this type will one day make non-ocean-crossing flights obsolete. I mean, what's the average cruising speed of planes today? 500 mph? 600 mph? And trains are city-center to city-center. With little to...

check out the HO train in the auction area!

No, not toy ones, real ones! I have noticed that there are two main types of supplying electricity to a train: 1- Overhead wires 2- Electrified rails Further, there are two types of electrified rails. Single rails as seen on most UK railways in the south east and double electrified railways...