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Yorkton avoids worst of flooding, still strains wastewater plant https://www.ctvnews.ca/regina/yorkton/article/yorkton-avoids-state-of-emergency-but-rainfall-strains-aging-wastewater-plant/ #yorkton #floods #storms #sk #sask View Original Article
5 Ideas That Could Change the Future of Trains The Subway, the El, the Tube, the Métro: Trains have been transporting humans around cities since 1863. But too many public transit systems still run like they’re stuck in the 19th century. That needs to change. This was posted on Google+
Two bullet trains have collided over a bridge in Wenzhou, China. As a result, four carriages of the first train derailed. Two were catapulted by the force of the impact into the ground, killing at leas…
This two-mile tunnel running on solar power just switched on today. It’s part of the Paris to Amsterdam line and the first in Europe, promising to save a ton of energy that would otherwise be wasted d…
Calgary-Edmonton high-speed rail project moves forward with new commitments from Alberta, feds | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-edmonton-red-deer-rail-service-alberta-canada-9.7361563 #alberta #calgary #edmonton #highspeed #rail #trains #funding View Original Article
Trump Moves to Kill California’s Dreams of High-Speed Rail https://gizmodo.com/trump-moves-to-kill-californias-dreams-of-high-speed-rail-2000630700 #DonaldTrump #california #highspeed #rail #trains View Original Article
Wow, awesome flight! Flight of the Year // Trains, Bridges, Rapids, Mountains, Sunset, Gapping, Perching, Powerlooping It’s all here. Thank you to FPV-Direct for sponsoring my trip to Reno, NV for the MultiGP National C This was posted on Google+
China claims world’s longest high-speed rail line, takes travelers 1,428 miles in a workdayChina claims world’s longest high-speed rail line, takes travelers 1,428 miles in a workday China has a thing for pushing the limits of trains. As of today, that includes distance: the country claims to have the world’s longest high-speed rail This was …
Embedded Link Watch This Badass Train Smash and Destroy Snow Like a Boss If you're a YouTube connoisseur, you've probably already seen a train plow through snow before. But that's because a giganto snow plow is attached to the front of the locomotive—those trains were mean… Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. …
It’s not as cool as Chipzilla’s other augmented reality project, but at least this one exists out in the real world. Present at branded storefronts, the camera-based AR tech uses image recognition on Lego boxes to superimpose their brick-ladden cont…
Traveling the 515 km (320 miles) from Tokyo to Osaka by Shinkansen bullet train currently requires 2 hours and 25 minutes (and costs a small fortune, too). Come 2045, travel between Japan’s two largest metro areas will take just over one hour, followi…
With its double-decker design and posh interior perks, this concept train from Australian firm Hassell could one day zip the denizens of the land down under across the outskirts of their island contine…
Do you have the feeling, as I do, that in the tsunami of everyday life, we’re getting too much of stuff we don’t need, and not enough of what we do? Herewith my first set of suggestions about how to redress the imbalance:
WE NEED LESS:
WE NEED…
President Obama is calling for $53 billion in funding for developing trains that travel at speeds of up to 250mph in a bid that follows his State of the Union speech about “winning the future.” [The Hu…
We knew Google was rather fond of its WebM video standard, but we never expected a move like this: the company says it will drop support for the rival H.264 codec in its HTML5 video tag, and is justifying the move in the name of open standards somehow…
We knew the Chinese were serious about doing this whole high-speed railway thing, but we had no idea they were this serious. As Engadget reports, researchers at Southwest Jiaotong University are currently putting together a prototype maglev train that …
Researchers have discovered two powerful antibodies that neutralize most known strains of the AIDS virus in laboratory testing.