#Rail transport

Author: Exuperist / Source: Neatorama For a long time now, plans have been in the pipeline for a high-speed railway system in the United States which would speed up logistics and hopefully, integrate lines to connect different states to make transportation and travel easier and faster. However,

Author: Justin Franz / Source: Atlas Obscura In 1852, the entrepreneur and inventor Sylvester Marsh got lost in a storm and nearly died on the slopes of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington. The Northeast’s tallest peak is home to some of the worst weather on earth—in 1934, observers at the summit

Author: Karl Smallwood / Source: Today I Found Out Dan P asks: We see in the old movies and cartoons that the villain ties their victim to the railroad tracks to kill him or her in a gruesome way thought the hero always rescues the victim in the nick of time.Are there any documented cases of

Author: Lindsay VanSomeren / Source: Wise Bread Train travel might be a thing of the past as far as a transportation mainstay, because it’s much easier to hop on a plane and be across the country in a few hours rather than a few days via train. But if you’re the type of person who loves looking

Author: Sarah Laskow / Source: Atlas Obscura In 1960, looking west from the Texas and Pacific freight yard in El Paso, Texas, you’d see the lines of the rails curving off to the north, towards the city buildings and smokestacks in the distance. In the yard, after an engine gave a rail car a push