Stories about: train

Honda Civic Coupe Comes Out Surprisingly Fresh After Rough Freight Train Encounter

16 Dec 2015, 15:54 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Apart from an ocean liner, the last thing you want your car to crash with is a two-story tall train travelling at a pretty decent speed

A Truck and a Train Walk into a Bar. Only One Comes Out. No Prizes for Guessing

13 Dec 2015, 14:40 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / A good thing to remember is that no matter how big you are, there's always somebody even bigger. Unless you're Chuck Norris, then you're good

Car Gets Hit by High-Speed Train after Barrier Rises Prematurely in Taiwan

3 Oct 2015, 12:51 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The driver escaped unharmed, and the Taiwan Railway Administration has promised to compensate him for the damage to his car

London Tube Trail Uses Regenerative Breaking to Save Power

27 Sep 2015, 08:03 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Regenerative braking systems are being used by a lot of automakers to save energy. We can't see a reason why underground trains wouldn't use it too

Entire Dutch Rail Network to Run Only with Wind Energy by 2018

28 Aug 2015, 16:06 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / We new that The Netherlands is one of the most liberal countries and that they care a lot about their alternative energies, but this is quite impressive

You Can Now Pre-Order the First Toy Train to Use Maglev Technology – Video

27 Aug 2015, 21:45 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The fastest train in the world ran at the speed of 374 mph and it's Japan's Series L0. The train is operated by the Central Japan Railway Company

Scary CCTV Footage Shows How Reckless Australia’s "Coupler Riding" Really Is

5 May 2015, 08:15 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / They say you have to be a bit crazy to sky dive, parachute jump and other stuff like that. But to ride a train on the outside is just foolish

China Wants to Connect with Nepal Digging a Train Tunnel through Mount Everest

9 Apr 2015, 15:48 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The country’s railways are among the busiest in the world, handling a quarter of the world’s rail traffic volume on only 6 percent of the world’s tracks in 2006

Chinese Commercial Line Makes World’s Longest Train Journey

10 Dec 2014, 15:53 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / A 13,052 kilometers (8,110 miles) journey between the Chinese city of Ywu and the Spanish capital has come to an end the other day thus seting a new record for the world’s longest train journe...

Man Builds Steam Engine BBQ Smoker, Names It after a Country Song

20 Nov 2014, 14:40 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / When this man from Rockford, Illinois finally finished his long-time project, his daughter thought it would be nice to interview him. The man spent around three years to build a steam engine train r...

18 Wheeler Carrying Crane Gets Smashed to Pieces by Freight Train

7 Oct 2014, 15:45 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / This is one of those videos that makes Hollywood movies seem like they might actually be real. In a terrible twist of faith, an 18 wheeler carrying a crane bottomed out and got stuck on top of a rai...

This Model of Stephenson’s Rocket Stirling Engine Could Be Yours

28 Sep 2014, 20:04 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / He was called the greatest engineer of the 19th century and his work probably changed the world of railways as we now know it. The brilliant inventor is also the man who created the famous Rocket St...

Teen Messes with Train, Gets Kicked in the Head by Conductor

16 Apr 2014, 17:58 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / “Selfie” may have been THE word of 2013, but its ways are not always clean, as one teenager recently found out. The teen was trying to take a selfie, standing at a more or less safe dist...

Watch Trucks Smash into “11-Foot-8” Bridge to Rocky Music

6 Dec 2012, 14:17 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / A guy called Jürgen Henn had the bright idea to install multiple camera around a low bridge back in 2008. The result is a festivity of crashes involving truck drivers who ignore the warnings ar...

Truck Thinks It's a Train in Russia

4 Jul 2012, 15:39 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Russia is a very strange country with pragmatic people. NASA famously spent millions of dollars to create a ball point pen that works in space, while the cosmonauts just used a simple lead pencil. ...

Chinese Train Breaks Speed Record

6 Dec 2010, 08:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Fastest growing economy, fastest growing automotive market, why not fastest train, too? A long time goal of the Chinese has been achieved this weekend, after one of their trains managed to break the...

Train Hits Lorry. Driver Blames It on Bad English

28 Nov 2010, 12:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Earlier in August this year, a National Express train derailed after hitting a lorry tanker at the crossing in Little Cornard near Sudbury, Suffolk., injuring 19 of the 30 people on board in the pro...

A Train for Bentley?

21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Dragos Rusu / What does Bentley have to do with a train exactly? Well, the most eloquent answer to that question can be provided by the Train Chartering company. They are the ones who provided top of the range ca...

Transbay Transit Center Build Begins

12 Aug 2010, 12:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A historic moment took place on August 12 in San Francisco, where a series of Federal, State and local officials, together with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA), witnessed the ground braki...

China Straddling Train to Solve Congestion [Video Update]

5 Aug 2010, 15:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Being the fastest growing automotive market in the world and at the same time one of the world's biggest polluters, China is facing a congestion problem of a huge scale. Although not there yet,...