Hacker News with Generative AI: Trains

'Nobody has done this before': Britain's beloved steam trains trial technology (theguardian.com)
In-cab digital signalling was tested last week as part of a project to secure the future of main-line locomotives

Technology, Trains, United Kingdom, Innovation

60 points by beardyw 6 days ago | 49 comments

Traveling Through India on the Himsagar Express (newyorker.com)
The train car was crammed with people sitting on the lower and upper berths, squatting in the aisles, and crowding the vestibule leading to the toilets, and this might have been the reason that Ganesh Rajwar was sitting in the open doorway, his feet on the metal stairs.

Travel, India, Trains

19 points by Thevet 48 days ago | 1 comments

When a winter storm trapped a luxury passenger train near Donner Pass (smithsonianmag.com)
High inside locomotive 6019, engineer Tom Sapunor notched the throttle forward and squinted at the track ahead—not that he could see much of it. The blizzard that had barreled into the Sierra Nevada mountain range three days earlier had blanketed most everything, its 90-mile-per-hour gusts sweeping the snow into 25-foot drifts.

Weather, Trains, History

146 points by pseudolus 105 days ago | 117 comments

New Japanese Maglev Bullet Train over 600 KPH (reddit.com)

Japan, Transportation, Trains, Technology, Speed

9 points by wslh 114 days ago | 0 comments

Paris to Berlin by train is now faster by five hours (theguardian.com)
The new direct daytime route, via Strasbourg, sweeps through enchanting landscapes from vineyards to forests. But some say it needs to be quicker still if the train is to be more attractive than flying

Travel, Europe, Trains, Sustainability

130 points by teleforce 123 days ago | 112 comments

Caltrain makes history with electric trains on SF to San Jose route (electrek.co)
Caltrain, the 160-year-old San Francisco to San Jose rail corridor, has ditched diesel and is now fully electric.

Public Transportation, California, Sustainability, Technology, Trains

5 points by peutetre 152 days ago | 0 comments

UK: Will new battery-powered trains replace diesel, and are they safe? (bbc.co.uk)
Soon battery-powered trains could be coming to a station near you.

Transportation, Trains, Technology, Environment, Safety

10 points by zeristor 166 days ago | 7 comments

Crossing the USA by Train (blinry.org)
Today, I get to start a train trip I’ve always wanted to do: Going from New York to San Francisco!!

Travel, USA, Trains

355 points by chmaynard 181 days ago | 427 comments

How electric trains work and why they make interesting sounds [video] (youtube.com)

Trains, Engineering, Sound, Videos

209 points by zdw 202 days ago | 76 comments

Caltrain's new electric trains (fastcompany.com)