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Tech NewsGadgetsA Tiny Video Camera Lets This Train Enthusiast Ride Along on His Incredibly Detailed Model Railroad
There are people so obsessed with trains that they’ll travel the world just to spot a rare locomotive. And then there’s Jason Shron, who’s not only built a replica of a passenger train car in his basement, he’s also found a clever way to simulate a train ride by strapping a tiny video camera to … Continued
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Tech NewsCultureI Listen to Train Sounds on the Train Because I Love Train
These days, there are millions of songs, podcasts, and audiobooks you can listen to on your morning commute. And given that nearly infinite selection of songs, podcasts, and audiobooks, I choose to listen to trains. For me and other New Yorkers, the subway is inescapable, one of the few certainties in life. We’re born on … Continued
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Tech NewsWait For It…
I’m not saying you should do this…. But hypothetically… If you handed someone your phone while this GIF was playing… And you just said “wait for it”… How long do you suppose…. They would sit there… Watching the GIF loop… Over and over and over again… Two times? Three? Twenty times? I guess it would … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidTraveling on a train across the entire United States is so picturesque
Train travel is the best travel. Sure, it’s slower than riding an airplane and more restrictive than driving a car but it’s so much less stressful than either of those. Plus, once you hop in and sit down, you can just look out and enjoy the view as you snake your way to your destination. … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidDaredevil kid rides a train while on top of the roof of the train
Taking the train is my favorite form of transportation because unlike a car, I don’t have to drive or get stuck in traffic and unlike an airplane, I don’t have to go through security and be crammed in impossibly tiny spaces. But I only like it when I’m inside the train. This kid, who’s completely … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Future of Rail Travel—and Why It Doesn’t Look Like Hyperloop
As the world’s population becomes increasingly urbanised, it is estimated that the number of journeys measured in passenger-kilometres will triple by 2050. Roads simply can’t absorb this increase. Railways, with their greater capacity for carrying more people, quickly and with greater energy efficiency, are the best bet to become our mobility backbone. Of course, engineers’ … Continued
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China Wants to Build a 3000-Mile Railway Through the Amazon
Not content with building massive new dams, railroads, and cities inside its own borders, China is backing hugely ambitious infrastructure projects all over the world. Its latest is a 3,000-mile long railway that will cut through vast swathes of the Amazon rainforest. The Guardian reports that Chinese premier Li Keqiang will advocate for the railway … Continued
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Someone Snuck Into NYC’s $4 Billion Train Station And Took These Pics
Picture $4 billion worth of cash stacked up in the shape of a train station. This is pretty much what the World Trade Center Transportation Hub looks like. Except more surreal. You’d also maybe need to throw in a whole bunch of screw ups and missed deadlines, because this alien cathedral of a train stationis … Continued
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The World Trade Center Train Station May Cost More Than the Skyscraper
4 billion dollars. It’s almost twice as much as it cost to develop the most expensive plane in history. It’s more than the cost of the new World Trade Center, the tallest building in North America. It’s also the projected cost of NYC’s newest train station. In an absolutely astounding New York Times article this … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidThis is now the longest train journey in the world
21 days. That’s the time it will take to complete the largest train journey in the world. 6,200 miles (9977 kilometers) from Yiwu, China, to Madrid, Spain. It’s part of the New Silk Road, a Chinese project to gain control over transcontinental cargo transportation between Asia and Europe. The route is much longer than the … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidCommuters tilt and lift train car to free trapped man
A group of commuters freed a man trapped between the platform and a train car in Australia by pushing the train car and lifting the carriage enough for his leg to get out. Thankfully, the train’s shock absorbers where flexible enough to allow it as the chassis and wheels stayed on the tracks. Transperth spokesman … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidLunatic leaps on top of moving metro train as it emerges from tunnel
Watch a madman leap on to a moving train as it emerges from a tunnel in France. The idiot then tells the camera that he will try again soon because it didn’t work out how he had planned—as if it’s not easy enough to get yourself killed these days. SPLOID is a new blog about … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidHoly crap, watch this man narrowly escape getting hit by a train
This 77-year-old man from the Czech Republic has never been luckier. As he foolishly scurries across a train track, the man mis-times his walk and almost gets killed by a speeding train. The train comes so close to hitting him on the tracks that it actually does. His foot is clipped by the train and … Continued
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Incredibly claustrophobic photos of Tokyo’s subway at rush hour
The World’s Best Ever picked up this great photo series by Michael Wolf. Titled Tokyo Compression, it shows snapshots of passengers captured at Tokyo’s subway stations at rush hour. If you’re claustrophobic, don’t look at these. If you go to work at rush hour in certain New York subway lines, I’m sure you have experienced … Continued
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Continuing our inadvertent Snøhetta theme today, the Norwegian architecture firm has also proposed this fuselage-like metro station for downtown Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The outer skin of the building—a long tube enclosing a station on the city’s Metro-C line—would be surfaced with ceramic tiles “developed in cooperation with local artists.” This joins other large-scale rail projects … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidWeirdest time-lapse I’ve ever seen feels like flying into hyperspace
The Awesomerer found this impossibly mesmerizing time-lapse video taken in Tokyo’s Yurikamome train. It’s also the weirdest and trippiest time-lapse video I’ve ever seen. It’s called Hyperdrive, and it looks like they are traveling in the Millennium Falcon in Tron universe. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook
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How to pass time on the train and amuse the entire internet too
Everyone is talking today about October Jones—the author of Text from Dog—and his commuter photos: He draws alternative heads for fellow train passengers and uses them to replace their real heads in photos so he gets to travel with the Hulk and Kermit. These were made in 2012 but hey, the internet has no memory … Continued
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Every Bus and Amtrak Route Across the US, Mapped
If you’re in the unenviable position of having to traverse the country by bus or train, you better make sure this map is on your phone. Put together by theAmerican Intercity Bus Riders Association, it shows you all the bus and Amtrak routes that span the United States. Click “enlarge” to embiggen and you’ll find … Continued
