World’s Slowest Express Train Takes 8 Hours to Travel 181 Miles
Switzerland’s Glacier Express is known as the world’s slowest fast train, taking over 8 hours to travel 290 kilometers (181 miles) through the Swiss Alps. The Glacier Express connecting the alpine resorts of Zermatt and St. Moritz isn’t anything like the high-speed express train zipping across Europe. Moving at an average speed of 36 km […]
Europe’s Highest Train Station Looks Like a Supervillain’s Secret Base
High up in the Swiss Alps, at an altitude of almost 3,500 meters (11,332 feet), lies Jungfraujoch, Europe’s highest train station, a wonder of human engineering that has been around for over a century. The train doesn’t seem like the best means of transportation when trying to climb a mountain, but the Swiss would beg […]
The World’s Longest Passenger Train Is Over One Mile Long
To celebrate the 175th anniversary of Switzerland’s first railway, a railway company created the world’s longest passenger train ever, a 1.2-mile-long monster snaking through the Swiss Alps. Switzerland’s mountain railways are regarded as feats of engineering, but they are hardly the best place to attempt a world record for the world’s longest passenger train. And […]
Japanese Train Enthusiast Converts Room into a Realistic Train Car Replica
This might look like an unimpressive photo taken in a train car, but it’s actually a room in the house of a Japanese train enthusiast. The tetsudo fan (Japanese translation of the term “railfan”) community in Japan is known for its obsession with everything related to trains. Some members travel all over the country snapping […]
Japan Railways Allegedly Keeps Train Station Running for Just One Passenger
Last Friday, China’s CCTV News posted a heart-warming story on Facebook about how Japanese railway authorities are keeping a train station in a remote village open for the sake of only one passenger – a high school student. “The Kyu-Shirataki-Shirataki train station is located in Japan’s north island of Hokkaido,” the post read. “Three years […]
Cambodia’s Rickety Bamboo Trains
Although Cambodia has a fine network of railway tracks dating back to the French colonial days, there are hardly any trains running these days. Real trains, that is. The locals get by perfectly well with their own indigenous invention – bamboo trains. The Cambodian railway system never really recovered from the horrors of war and […]
World’s Most Amazing Home Railroad System Can Be Yours for Only $3.5 Million
The suburb of Sherwood, just outside of Portland, Oregon, is home to one of the most spectacular properties in the world. Not only does it have all the regular stuff – a 5,000 Square Feet house, professional landscaping, a garden, a barn and a shop – it also has a fabulous world-class personal railway system […]
Meet the Guy Who Built a Train in His Basement
Canadian Jason Schron loves VIA trains so much that he actually spent four and a half years and $10,000 building his own genuine replica of a 1980s VIA train cart, accurate down to the tiniest details, right in the basement of his home, in Vaughan, Ontario. “The train is where I feel most at home,” Schron […]
Giant Underground Train Set Built in London Home
John Polley, a 50 year-old former train driver from London managed to create a replica of Abbey Road underground train station in his own home, in Hertfordshire, at a scale of 4mm/30cm. This large train set, so large that when assembled it took up most of the space in John Polly’s house,was built in approximately […]