Tag: Train

Have you heard about how artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the art world? It’s truly amazing! There are now AI art generators like Leonardo.ai that can create breathtaking visuals in no time compared to traditional methods. Speaking of Leonardo.ai, it’s one of the most popu...

Deutsche Bahn, a prominent player in the transportation industry, is making substantial strides in railway maintenance with a 55 million euro investment in its groundbreaking “E-Check” initiative. Leveraging the prowess of artificial intelligence and robotics, this cutting-edge project i...

What is the world’s most impressive metro? Many people would name the other-worldly Stockholm underground. My Ukrainian friends, of course, will recommend Kyiv: its pompous socialist modernist stations feature folk motifs and vaulted vestibules. Berlin doesn’t top such ratings but still ...

The river wasn’t frozen that night, not yet, though it was snowing lightly as I hurried along its concrete banks through skyscrapers to catch the train filled with silent passengers eyeing reflections in dark windows. Chicago floated over narrow depths in wavering ribbons of gold, and t...

Chicago is a city of 2.75 Million people (as of 2020) in the north of the United States of America, located in the federal state of Illinois 135km/84mi south of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and 45km/28mi east of Naperville, Illinois (both measurements in linear distance). The location of Chicago in N...

The train south from Chicago was the first taste of how I imagined this trip to go and the first feel of the real America. No, there is nothing unreal about New York, but it is very much its own thing. Self-sufficient, a country unto its own rather than a city belonging to anywhere in particular....

There is no place on earth like Dubai, the hub of futuristic architecture and revolutionary technology and a playground for creating the tallest, most luxurious skyscrapers that we have ever seen in the old trauma-durn metropolis. It already has an endless list of world-renowned landmarks ...

Moorgate is a street in the district “City of London” (population as of 2016: 9401), right in the heart of the English capital. Moorgate is named after one of the city’s first entrance-gates back in the fifteenth century, then sitting on the edge of the city. Today the area is unof...

Black bricks of the Montreal Metro tunnel whiz by as my train hurtles onwards to its next stop. I’m headed to Little Italy. Or was it Little Portugal? I’m headed to Little Somewhere-In-Southern-Europe. I’m meeting a friend who wasn’t even supposed to be here. B...

Frigid October rains, Pounding against the glass of the city’s skyscrapers. Droplets smashing fiercely against the concrete steps and the grim faces. I am safe from the rains. I stand a hundred feet beneath the concrete steps. A hundred feet beneath the grim faces. Toothless ...

“Sorry, we decided to go to Budapest instead,” the boys told me. It was the class’s last day in Vienna. Our course abroad had come to an end. They were close friends. I was their fellow student, age 18, who wanted very badly to go to Prague. I didn’t care about traveling a...

Growing up in Sydney, I used to catch the bus every day to school and continued throughout university. I should have gotten used to this by now… Now I shamefully catch myself driving my car to destinations rather than catching a bus. Recently, I visited some family in the German-speakin...

At 8:07 a.m. on Wednesday morning, United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Avraham Levy was returning home from staffing an all-night municipal election vote-count in the city of Tel Mond. He was driving one of the organization’s ambulances back from the event when he received an emergency alert from di...

The best thing about the model train set was the wonderful scent of electricity. The miniature carriages and locomotives were beautiful, fascinating, and mesmerizing in their attention to detail, such that I would spend hours admiring them. But it was the red transformer box with rounded corners ...

Fairy tales have attracted a range of criticism since their first publication in the nineteenth century, with varying feminists, Freudians and Post-colonialists interpreting the works of the Brothers Grimm. Jack Zipes identified that we often ‘refer to myths and fairy tales as lies [but] these...

I’ve loved trains since I was a little kid. I’ve always had a train set(the title pic is from my current layout), I hung out by the tracks a rail served industry in my hometown, getting cab and caboose rides. As a ten year old, I wrote to the Santa Fe Railway and got a tour of their down...

The Channel Tunnel (also referred to as “Chunnel” on occasion) is a 50.46km/31.35mi railway tunnel connecting England and France beneath the ground of the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. Opening in 1994, over 190 years after the idea was first proposed, the tunnel consists of two...

Honestly, a little reflection wouldn’t hurt. Not getting defensive and acting like a child would be nice. Not lashing out at the person trying to communicate something to you would be a good start. How about not starting a YouTube channel on how bad white people have it? I know these guys m...

My alarm clock was pink. She came from Sears with the pack of undershirts they gave me for Christmas in the 3rd grade. I don’t know what happened to that alarm clock, but I can tell you that I held onto, and continued to stitch up the holes in those undershirts until the relationship ended whe...

I’ve been trying to get to this point for a while to be honest. My best streak this year was in January when I decided to have two weeks off for New Year. Since then I had been stopping and starting every few days. It was frustrating and I felt like a failure. One of the reasons I’ve ...

If you’re learning French, it’s not enough to just memorize vocabulary and grammar rules. To truly master the language, you need to be able to think in French. When you have a habit of thinking in French: vocabulary comes easier, sentence structure is easier to deal with, you thi...