Wooden Train Set Dining Table

Deliver the chocolates & mints at your dinner party by using a 'TrackTile' Dining Table and some battery operated trains.
A train set/dining room table. Check out all the track designs at their website, Via: laughingsquid.com, Via: Youtube

Polish Train

You've seen them before, those videos where a whole lot of people are stuffed inside a small car or telephone booth etc. in order to break some world record. This video from the train station at Brzeg Dolny in Poland reminded me of that. LINK: The Presurfer

Gas Turbine-Powered Model Train is Powerful Enough to Haul around Its Builder

This 1:8.4 scale model train is powered by a gas turbine engine. It travels down five inch gauge tracks quite quickly, as you can see by watching the video in the links. The train was built by Hidepon Works and displayed at Make Fair 2010 in Tokyo.


Link and Video, Via: OhGizmo! | Official Website (Google Translate) | Photo: Gizmag | Via: Neatorama

The View From A High Speed Train, In Slow Motion

Just how fast is a high speed train? Watch as video artist Graeme Taylor captures a speeding train through a station using a high speed camera, and the effect is mesmerizing. LINK, Via: Youtube

WORLD’S SMALLEST FUNCTIONAL STEAM TRAIN

“It was [seen] during festivities to commemorate the opening of the new JR Nada station. The railway was build in parallel with the Hanshin railway next to Iwaya park and people (mainly parents with their children) were taking rides on it. It could easily accommodate 15-20 people and it was traveling around 4-8 mph (crude estimate) fully loaded.” LINK, Via: Youtube

The Windmill Farmer

Neatorama author JohnnyCat received a bit of inspiration in the form of an animated short story.

For the past few days, I’ve been seriously considering getting trained to be a wind turbine specialist. There’s a school right here in town that certifies people to go out and maintain the growing number of windmills providing renewable energy.

Looks like he’s going to take the course, after watching The Windmill Farmer by Joaquin Baldwin. LINK: Neatorama, Via: Youtube

A Train That Lays Tracks

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Trains go where other vehicles can’t, but only if there are tracks in those places. So it only makes sense to lay train tracks with a train! The P811-S Track Renewal Train does just that. This train finished the line to Overpelt, Belgium on May 5 of this year. -Via: The Presurfer, Via: Neatorama

China launches world's fastest train

China unveiled what it touted as the fastest rail link in the world on Saturday.

The train will run between the cities of Guangzhou and Wuhan. At an average speed of 217 miles per hour, the high-speed train reduces the 664 mile ride from ten and a half hours to just three hours.

Full story here and here. LINK, Via: Youtube

Japanese New Train Invention

Japanese invented a train that no longer needs to get reversed. Just push the button, and the chairs get reversed. LINK, Via: Youtube

Beautiful Steam Trains

If anyone knows where some of these were taken leave a comment. LINK

Awesome Levitating Train

Have a look below if you want to try to figure out how it works, or simply kick off your shoes, hit play and enjoy the ride.
The core of the bearings consists of a magnetic rail and super-conducting bulks, cooled to a temperature of -196°C. During the cooling process, the magnetic field of the rail will be written in the superconductors, which are positioned at a set distance from the magnetic rail. This enables them to retain a set horizontal position in relation to the rail. Their super-conducting operational temperature is maintained in cryostats, initially through cooling in liquid nitrogen. LINK: Youtube Via: Prylfeber

China unveils new 300 km per hour bullet train

Photo taken on Dec. 22, 2007 shows the locomotive of the first Chinese designed and manufactured high-speed train CRH2-300 at CSR Sifang Locomotive and Rolling Stock Co. Ltd. in Qingdao of east China's Shandong Province. The train which rolled off the production line Saturday is the latest model in the country's China Railway High-speed (CRH) Series and China's first locomotive capable of traveling at 300 kilometers per hour.
The trains with eight carriages could seat about 600 passengers. They were expected to run on the 115-km Beijing-Tianjin route starting from August before the Beijing Olympic Games. It would reduce the journey time from the current 80 minutes to around 30 minutes. LINK