Showing posts with label Train & Railways. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Train & Railways. Show all posts

11/03/2014

The Apartment is a Meter away from the Railway Track In Hanoi

Most of the time, railroad tracks are expertly marked, warning passersby to keep a look out for oncoming trains, but what if you the tracks were literally steps from your front door?

So is the case for many in Hanoi. Amidst a busy city street, people live and work alongside the railroad tracks found in the city's Old Quarter, and only move temporarily when the train passes through. Shops are shut down, and immediately re-opened just as soon as the train brushes past.

The Apartment is a Meter away from the Railway Track In Hanoi
The Apartment is a Meter away from the Railway Track In Hanoi

Transit Museum of New York — The Historic Subway Station turns 110 Years

The New York subway carries 110 years, and to celebrate it back on the tracks some old cars in service until the '60s. "The subway system in the Big Apple has come a long way since that autumn day in 1904," said the president of the New York City Transit, Carmen White, the US media. The first subway line, linking City Hall (the seat of mayor in Downtown) and Harlem (north of Manhattan) ran under Park Avenue South to Grand Central, crossed the 42 / th Street to Times Square and saliva on Broadway up to 145 / th Street. To celebrate the anniversary, the transport company has circulated the same train inauguration, that of 1904, from Times Square to the 96 / th Street between amazed and amused glances of passersby.

Transit Museum of New York — The Historic Subway Station turns 110 Years
Transit Museum of New York — The Historic Subway Station turns 110 Years

10/28/2014

World's Highest Rail Track — Qingzang Railway, China

Sealed cars, individual oxygen masks for each passenger, specially designed locomotives, endless racks on permafrost, dozens of deserted stations on background snowy mountain peaks - all unique Qinghai-Tibet Railway. In just five years and three and a half billion dollars in China to build highway 1150 kilometers long, will connect the "roof of the world" with the mainland.

World's Highest Rail Track — Qingzang Railway, China
World's Highest Rail Track — Qingzang Railway, China

10/20/2014

Old Luggage Van — Cottages in a vintage Train Wagon

In Russia no surprise Unique house made out of an old railroad car. However, Old Luggage Van and even for our country looks very unusual. After all, this cozy cottage, located in the county of Cornwall, is made from a railroad car, built in Victorian England.

Old Luggage Van - Cottages in a vintage Train Wagon
Old Luggage Van - Cottages in a vintage Train Wagon

9/11/2014

The Gelmerbahn funicular Switzerland

The Gelmerbahn funicular is a funicular railway in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It links a lower terminus at Handegg, in the Haslital (the valley of the upper Aar River), with an upper terminus at the Gelmersee lake. The Gelmerbahn is the steepest funicular in Switzerland and Europe. The Handegg terminus of the line is close to the road over the Grimsel Pass. It is accessible by car and by an infrequent PostBus service. The funicular was originally built to facilitate the construction of the Gelmersee, a reservoir, constructed in 1926 in order toexploit the hydroelectric resources of the area. The funicular was originally constructed to facilitate the building of thisreservoir, and was not opened for public use until 2001. The line is owned and operated by Kraftwerke Oberhasli AG (KWO), who owns the power station.

The Gelmerbahn funicular is a funicular railway in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It links a lower terminus at Handegg, in the Haslital (the valley of the upper Aar River), with an upper terminus at the Gelmersee lake. The Gelmerbahn is the steepest funicular in Switzerland and Europe.