railways

A website I've stumbled across that is dedicated to archiving a mid 1930s part-work encyclopedia covering various aspects of railroading as they existed at the time. Amongst topics covered are the various attempts to create steam turbine powered locomotives and other experimental projects such...

Schienenkampfwagen SK 1 (roughly translates to Rail Combat Vehicle SK 1). Series of Panzer III tanks fit with a set of retractable railroad wheels allowing the vehicle to travel on land and rail. They were used for railroad patrol in Eastern Europe starting from 1943, and had a maximum speed (on...

Been a while everybody, hope all is well I have had the following photo for some time in my archive. It was and still is a oddity, as to this day I cannot find a solid explanation for what it is. That is to say, I might have a theory now, if you all would allow me. To my knowledge, the photo...

Three videos covering accidents in East Germany where passenger trains collided with Soviet Tanks, the 1962 Trebbin Rail Accident was declared a state secret by both East Germany and the Soviet Union and only the heavy involvement of East German civilians in the rescue efforts kept the story...

Ever since this railroad started operating, all you ever hear about it are the frequent accidents. This article provides a deep dive into why it became so dangerous. https://www.wlrn.org/killer-train-brightline-death-toll-surpasses-180-but-safeguards-are-still-lacking

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/large-parts-spain-portugal-hit-by-power-outage-2025-04-28/ Pretty massive outages. Regards,

Now if everyone would just buy electric cars, the world will be saved. https://www.gosbcta.com/project/zero-emission-multiple-unit-zemu/

https://www.techinsider.ru/technologies/58629-sovetskiy-maglev-25-let-pod-tsellofanom/ https://www.kp.ru/daily/27365/4547187/ https://habr.com/ru/companies/vk/articles/410545/

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWxESIzJhCU From the comments thread:

Via Slashdot: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/us/california-high-speed-rail-politics.html (Registration or subscription may be required)

Hello, good afternoon. This is my second post. Thank you for reading. Russian old magazines on the Internet are a cemetery of romantic impractical futurism. I found absolutely unique magazines - a rarity even on the Internet. This is Knowledge-Power. Journals for students of polytechnic...

What Hitler planned for German Railways had they won the war... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkuEP5iMRiM

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a33918204/4468-mallard-history/

As the UK wrestles with the issue of whether to build the HS2 high speed rail link from London to the North I had to revisit the world of the late Gerry Anderson as drawn by the artist Graham Bleathman. Like a lot of 60s ideas monorails looked cool but were expensive and impractical- how would...

During 1960s the French build and tested a Hovercraft Train concept called Aerotrain About concept in english French videos about Aerotrain Battle Aerotrain vs TVG (in french)

Good Day All - Some non aircraft/missile drawings from the Vought Archives of a proposed TACV - Track Air Cushion Vehicle. Apparently there as a model similar to this design shown at Transpo '72. An article on the similar (but built) Rohr TACV is at...

I'm putting this here under the thin justification that some of the cars were to be defensively armed, there were plans to transport small warships with it, and it could fill a logistics role similar to the Reichsautobahnen. However, I really just wanted a thread somewhere to discuss this. Some...

Via the Associated Press:

To be shown at the Paris Air Show shortly, but since the project has its own website, why not see it there? I think the EPFL might have something here (the infrastructure implications are especially interesting to me), though I'm sure others on this site are much more familiar with other...