Archive for 'Video' Category
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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Line 14 for Grand Paris
Part of the Grand Paris programme, the automated Line 14 of Paris Metro is planned to be extended till Mairie de St. Ouen. This video illustrates some curiosities about the line. [via Quoi Ma Ligne]
Joy for the Kyushu Shinkansen full opening
I’m so fascinated with Japanes that I really share their joy when I look at the kind of commercial JR Kyushu produced to celebrate the opening of the completed Kyushu Shinkensen line. On March 12th, the Kyushu Shinkansen high-speed rail line fully opened for service, connecting Hakata in the north to Kagoshima in the South. [...]
How NYC Subway Riders Reacted to Announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s Death [video]
From Inside Transit: [...] Here’s how a packed NYC subway car full of people reacted to the news of Bin Laden’s death. From the narration at the end of the video, it appears that not only are locals on the train but also people from Poland and Denmark. Apart from the opinions about Osama Bin [...]
Extreme railways
Far from the perfection reached on high speed lines (for instance) or modern countries’ infrastructures, these two videos show different kind of railways, really unstable, which make trains trapezists constantly seeking the equilibrium. Steam Train from Misha Werder on Vimeo. Mainly related to private small railways linked to the extraction and delivery of peat or [...]
Les Guignols De L’Info: homage to TGV [video]
Homage of the satirical show Les Guignols De L’Info to the 30th anniversary of TGV, in French. And to Jules Verne… [via Quoi ma ligne?]
Behind the scenes of RENFE Integria
Integria is the division of Spanish operator RENFE that follows maintenance activities and renovation on the whole railway fleet. The video – in Spanish – offers a review of this activities and to us a look to what is behind the exploitation of everyday trains, from high speed to regional. There’s also a post, on [...]
Subway Fight Erupts After Passenger Objects To Spaghetti Eating [video]
From NYC The Blog: Details are scant on this one but we know a few things. A woman riding a crowded subway was unabashedly eating her spaghetti out of a large styrofoam container. A passenger sitting nearby objected, politely inquiring: “What kind of animals eat on the train like that?!” You can imagine how the [...]
111 years of Paris’ metro tickets
More on this interesting book (Petite histoire du Ticket de métro parisien) and its author Grégoire Thonnat on the website Ticket de métro parisien. A preview of some pages of the book here. [via Quoi ma ligne?]