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Skid driving with SL95

A good video on YouTube showing difficulties that tram drivers face when driving on slippery rails (click on the image to open the video page). Original title: “Glattkjøring med SL95″. An educational film from Oslo Tramways Inc. about how to drive an SL95 class tramcar on slippery rails. English subtitles are available.

Are trolleybuses more sustainable than LRV?

Among the neverending list of blogs I follow, Low Tech Magazine is one of the most interesting and challenging, keeping in mind my predilection for railways. Some of the theses exposed in its posts goes sometimes towards the necessity of shifting to railway and high speed in particular. Therefore I consider this blog as a [...]