Archive for 'Video' Category
Crash science: train. Documentary in French
Hereafter a documentary (in French) about crash science applied on trains, especially high speed ones. Four more parts available on YouTube.
No Pants Subway Ride 2010
Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, the group Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places.
Based in New York City it has executed over 100 missions involving tens of thousands of undercover agents. Among the executions there’s the No Pants Subway Ride day whose first time is dated 2002.
The 2010 [...]
Bergensbanen. 7 1/2 hours of train ride documentary
From NRK beta:
Friday November 27th 2009, over 1,2 million Norwegians watched parts of “Bergensbanen” on NRK2. The longest documentary ever? At least the longest we have made, almost 7 1/2 hours, showing every minute of the scenic train ride between Bergen on the Norwegian west coast, crossing the mountains to the capital of Oslo.
Bergensbanen is [...]
Barcelona en tranvía – Barcelona by tram
Having a look to the Europa Film Treasures website I found this short and very interesting video whose story is presented herafter (source: EFT website).
It’s nice to feel emotions in b&w of people crossing the track, staring at the marvellously brought by the tramway and first video recorder apparatus. A scene not so different from [...]
The story of the Advanced Passenger Train
YouTube is too full of resources, even for railway enthusiastic. I was pretty surprised to learn that the very basis of modern tilting trains was born in the UK. Moreover APT joined other innovations I’ll try to summarise maybe in another post.
From Five TV website: Peter Snow tracks down the unsung heroes behind the technology [...]
The Passenger Train, 1954
I found this intersting video on YouTube describing a typical travel by train during the 50s. Young Bob – at his first travel by train – guides us to his destination (Lamy, US) on board of a Santa Fè train showing us onboard and offboard life. Enjoy this old fashioned railway travel with some things [...]
A night in the London’s Underground
“London has the oldest underground transportation system in the world. What happens when the last train has left the station and the escalators stop?”. This was the question raised by Wired popular magazine to introduce a short video report explaining the behind the scenes or better to say “behind the service” populating the London Underground [...]
Rail Crash Demo Previews New EU Legislation
Automotive best practices affect more and more rolling stock, especially considering the EN 15227 standard for crashworthiness used in Europe. Maybe in the next future crash homologation undertaken on full scale vehicles will be an everyday practice in railway industry. MIRA (Motor Industry Research Association) proposes itself as a leader on this field providing a [...]