Collaborate Disseminate
While it’s always important to accommodate bicycle commuters, bike parking spots on trains can’t seat non-cyclists when not in use. An experimental setup currently being trialled in Switzerland, however, may soon change that.Continue ReadingCategory: U… Continue reading Train seating area folds back to take bikes as needed
This week in the Podcast, Elliot Williams is off at Chaos Communication Congress, hearing tales of incredible reverse engineering that got locomotives back up and running, while Al Williams is …read more Continue reading Hackaday Podcast Episode 250: Trains, RC Planes, and EEPROMS in Flames
The freight system in the United States is prone to disaster. This is why. Continue reading The Great American Train Wreck Isn’t Going Away
A week ago we covered the story of a Polish train manufacturer who was caught using software to brick their products after they had been repaired by in independent railway …read more Continue reading Polish Train Manufacturer Threatens Hackers Who Unbricked Their Trains
If the right-to-repair movement has a famous story, it’s the familiar green and yellow John Deere tractor. Farmers and mechanics have done their own repairs as long as there have …read more Continue reading The Deere Disease Spreads To Trains
Poland’s railways have recently come under a form of electronic attack, as reported by Wired. The attack has widely been called a “cyber-attack” in the mainstream media, but the incident was …read more Continue reading Polish Railways Fall Victim To Cheap Radio Attack
In the 21st century, the global transportation landscape is in shift. Politicians, engineers, and planners all want to move more people, more quickly, more cleanly. Amid the frenzy of innovative …read more Continue reading The State of High Speed Rail, and A Look To Tomorrow
French transport multinational Alstom debuted the world’s first hydrogen fuel-cell passenger train back in 2016, which went into service in Germany last year. Now the Coradia iLint is rolling down the track in North America for the first time.Continue … Continue reading Hydrogen-powered passenger train rides the rails in North America
Hitachi Rail has announced the completion of a phase one rollout of its Masaccio trains on routes “across the length and breadth of Italy.” Dubbed the Blues by rail operator Trenitalia, the passenger fleet is the first in Europe to run on battery, elec… Continue reading Hitachi rolls out fleet of emissions-cutting tribrid Blues trains in Italy
Early on, railways primarily used wheels made of wood or iron. The former were cheap and relatively easy to manufacture, while the latter had far superior wear qualities. It may …read more Continue reading Luxury Train Cars Used To Ride On Paper Wheels