Trains have come on leaps and bounds the past half-century while the maximum speed has almost quadrupled. Who knows how fast they will be able to go in another 50 years? They have exploded to now have so much more raw horsepower (hp) than they ever did before. Horsepower is the power that one horse …
Trains today are fast. Very fast. But that hasn’t always been the case. Up until the late 1900s trains were much more limited than they are today in both speed and safety. It wasn’t just the train’s physical limitations that affected their speed, it was poor track maintenance too. In this article we will provide …
The word train was originally coined from the old French word trahiner, which was also derived from the Latin word trahere meaning “to pull” or “to draw”. A train is generally used for the transport of cargo and passengers. Here are 25 amazing facts about modern trains from ghost trains to fastest trains to imaginary …
The history of railways in Japan started in the late Edo Period, a time when Japan had been in isolation under the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate for about 250 years. However, the development of Japan railways commenced after the downfall of the Shogunate, when the power was transferred to the Meiji Government. Here are …
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