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A switchback railway
From Wikipedia: The original Switchback Railway at Coney Island was the first roller coaster designed as an amusement ride in America. It was designed by LaMarcus Adna Thompson in 1881 and constructed in 1884.[1] It appears Thompson based his design, at least in part, on the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway which was a coal-mining train [...]
Italian Frecciarossa restyling
4 kinds of seats offer (Executive, Business, Premium, Standard), new comfort, new interiors and new services on the last restyling of Trenitalia Frecciarossa trains (ETR 500 trains). More in the press release, in Italian.
Engineering gold for Siemens [video from CNN]
Sub City: New York and Paris
Redglass Pictures has produced a short film series about that moment when you emerge from the Paris and New York subways and find yourself in a new and sometimes unexpected world. Enjoy the emerging moment!
The TGV project in Morocco
Dubai metro ride
Dubai metro ride from Small Things on Vimeo. [via Ingeniería en la red]
See you in London
Splitscreen: A Love Story, is the winner of the Nokia Shorts competition 2011 and has been entirely filmed by James W. Griffith using a Nokia N8 mobile phone. Why am I mentioning it in R2.0? Because of the great split-screens of New York and Paris metros (before meeting in London). Splitscreen: A Love Story from [...]
Discover Panama metro
In Spanish. [via City Railways]
Toronto rides the new rocket
A video from The Star showing the new Toronto Rocket train for Toronto subway: Further media coverage (and videos) on Toronto Sun and CTV. Toronto Rocket is a product designed and built by Bombardier Transportation. Additional info here and here.
Gospel in Paris metro
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