Collaborate Disseminate
For those who live in countries where there are plenty of abandoned railways, a popular way to explore them has been by means of home made rail carts. These are …read more Continue reading A Rail Cart for the Space Conscious Passenger
Hundreds of miles of railroad tracks are scattered across the US and other countries. Despite how they look, many aren’t abandoned. But in the case of a genuinely abandoned track, …read more Continue reading Riding The Rails, In A Literal Sense
When you’ve gone to the trouble of building your own backyard railway, chances are pretty good that at some point, you’re going to want to add a locomotive of some …read more Continue reading Powering a Backyard Railway With Compressed Air
In everyday life, the largest moving object most people are likely to encounter is probably a train. Watching a train rolling along a track, it’s hard not to be impressed …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Power to Stop
As if the war in Ukraine weren’t bad enough right here on Earth, it threatens knock-on effects that could be felt as far away as Mars. One victim of the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 6, 2022
A home-built railway is one of the greatest things you could possibly use to shift loads around your farm. [Tim] and [Sandra] of YouTube channel [Way Out West] have just …read more Continue reading Building Switching Points For A Backyard Railway
It’s likely that among our readers are more than a few who hold an affection for trains. Whether you call them railroads or railways they’re the original tech fascination, and …read more Continue reading You Too Can Be A Railroad Baron!
There are an awful lot of machines on the market these days that fall under the broad category of “cheap Chinese laser cutters”. You know the type — the K40s, the no-name benchtop CO2 cutters, the bigger floor-mount units. If …read more
When it comes to travelling long distances, Americans tend to rely on planes, while the Chinese and Europeans love their high speed rail. However, a new technology promises greater speed with lower fares, with fancy pods travelling in large tubes held at near-vacuum pressures. It goes by the name of …read more
It doesn’t matter whether you know it as a railway, a railroad, a chemin de fer, or a 铁路, it’s a fair certainty that the trains near where you live are most likely to be powered either by diesel or electric locomotives. Over the years from the first horse-drawn tramways …read more
Continue reading The Mostly Forgotten Story of Atmospheric Railway