Mario Marchese's beautiful N-scale train set is built inside an old record player case. The arduino-controlled display includes lights, a whisle and a bridge that lifts up. You can view more pictures at the link.Link and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/26/Train-Set-in-a-Suitcase/This railroad line on Long Island, New York ran on... ...nd, New York ran on two rails, just like ordinary railroads . But cars ran speeds up to 100 MPH on a single tr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/09/19/The-Boynton-Bicycle-Railroad/Twenty minutes ago, I had never heard of rail bikes. Now I must have one. Maker of this rail bike and Velospace member Stinky Pete writes, "This is what happnes when a person works nights with too much time to think....
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/04/30/rail-bike/(Video Link) We're late for the train! But we must board it! How can this be accomplished? A couple in Burma demonstrates one technique. via The Presurfer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/12/how-to-board-a-moving-train/Gurkhas, the Nepalese elite soldiers in the service of Britain and some of its former colonies, sometimes fight with their traditional kukri knives (pictured). One retired Gurkha was carrying his knife when a train in I...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/29/40-train-robbers-vs-1-gurkha/Well, this is what happens. A diesel locomotive with a 4400 hp V16 engine passed through Independence, Louisiana. It lost a piston and threw it straight through a house. You can see more photos of the damage at th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/27/what-happens-when-a-train-engine-throws-a-piston/Tired of your neighbors? Swedish architecture firm Jagnafalt Milton may have a solution. It recently won a competition to develop the Norwegian city of Åndalsnes. The company proposes erecting buildings on railroad t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/24/architectural-firm-proposes-buildings-on-rails/After 14 years of work, Switzerland has finished drilling through 57 kilometers of rock to create the world's longest railway tunnel. It'll be years before it's ready for trains, but the hole itself is complete: The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/15/worlds-longest-railway-tunnel-drilled/Grand Central Terminal in New York City is the largest train station in the world, processing 700,000 visitors a day. It's an impressive demonstration of technology and logistics, and Daniel Terdiman at cnet has written...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/15/secrets-of-grand-central-station/Daylight Saving Time ends in most of the United St... ...ilt of time, time zones, and time usage. When the railroads came in, that necessitated more standardization o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/31/the-history-of-daylight-saving-time-in-the-us/
