May 24, 2017 at 5:55 pm
When Two Maglev Trains Pass Each Other
Don’t blink or you’ll miss it
Shot, edited and scored by Justin Tierney
An Amtrak train en route to NYC barrels through a station where the tracks are covered in snow, courtesy of winter storm Stella
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Two officers stand in the waiting room of Chicago’s Union Station as the sun pierces through and spotlights the two. Photo by Jack Delano.
What a brilliant feat of engineering! Watch this moving assembly line of machines install railroad tracks in real time.
Photograph by Jack Delano Seen above are steam locomotives of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards. The photograph was taken in December of 1942 and now resides at the Library of Congress. The Chicago and Northwestern Railway operated more than 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of track…
Photograph by Kabelleger / David Gubler (www.bahnbilder.ch) The Wiesen Viaduct is a single track limestone railway viaduct. It spans the Landwasser River southwest of the hamlet of Wiesen, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Designed by the then chief engineer of the Rhaetian Railway, Henning Friedrich, it was built between 1906 and 1909 under…
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