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One of the coolest, most outrageous ideas on the drawing board – the...
I’ve been working on an article on High Speed Rail (HSR) this week. In normal terms, High Speed Rail means 200 km/hr (130 miles per hour) and greater. But in researching it, I came across this idea,...
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How High Speed Rail Works -or- Getting between two cities faster than by car...
Imagine getting on a high-speed train in downtown New York City and arriving at Union Station in Washington DC, 230 miles away, just an hour later. This is the ultimate promise of true High Speed Rail...
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Invention – Trackless Train – total reconceptualization of a train might blow...
After doing this post… Unbelievable double-decker 225MPH train proposed for Britain …I was poking around in the train space and came across the following video, which blew my mind. It blows my mind...
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How 5,000 MPH Vactrains Work (aka Evacuated Tube Transport) – Could...
In the middle of 1800s, the United States built the transcontinental railroad to get people and products across the country. By today’s standards it was a slow way to go – about 8 days to get from...
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TechStuff Podcast Roundup: Deleting Files and Railroad Crossings
This week on TechStuff, Chris and I created a sister episode to our data recovery special. While the previous show was all about how to get data off a broken hard drive, the topic of conversation for...
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NaNoWriMo Day 9: Writing in the Face of Irritation
Starting word count: 16,265 Yesterday’s word count: 1,749 Total word count: 18,014 The product: Finally, after 11 chapters, heroine and party arrive at a lunar resort, a journey alluded to in the...
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An engine explodes – impressively!
The following video shows a tractor at a “tractor pull” event. It is running a large inline-6 diesel engine with a large supercharger and burning methanol. Unfortunately, it has run afoul of the laws...
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Traveling on the Orient Express
In her autobiography, famous crime novelist Agatha Christie wrote, “All my life I had wanted to go on the Orient Express. When I had travelled to France or Spain or Italy, the Orient Express had often...
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