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When Infrastructure Costs More Than Money: History’s Deadliest Projects

Construction is a deadly industry. Falls, electrocution, blunt force trauma and mishaps with heavy machinery are just a few of the hazards workers face on project sites around the world, whether ...

Off the Rails: 12 Artistic Interventions of Train Cars & Rail Yards

As railway systems decay in the United States and flourish elsewhere in the world, works of art pop up in train cars and along disused tracks, paying tribute to the journey of a transportation ...

Set Sail on Rail: Quirky Vehicles Explore Abandoned Tracks

Before the abandoned railroad tracks of Paris officially disappear - which is bound to happen, as cities realize the potential for reclamation as High Line-style parks - some intrepid locals are ...

By the Silent Line: Watch an Abandoned Railroad Disappear

Among the rusting vestiges of Europe's Industrial Revolution, this 20-mile relic of a railroad in Paris has been abandoned since 1934, and while it has been retaken by nature in the ensuing ...

Handmade Car Explores the Abandoned Railroads of Mexico

Over 5500 miles of abandoned railways stretching from one end of Mexico to the other enticed two brothers to build an incredible retro-futuristic exploratory car. The SEFT-1 is modeled after a ...

Failed Jungle Utopia: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Brazil

The remains of Henry Ford's failed rubber-producing city, two rusting theme parks, intricate colonial facades and a railroad that set the scene for 7,000 deaths are among Brazil's fascinating ...

Highest Steam: 9 Abandoned Railroad & Train Bridge Trestles

Durable by design and situated by necessity in difficult to access locations, train trestles are often all that remain when railroads are closed and abandoned. ...

Rolling Out a Master Plan: Movable City Runs on Rails

Imagine a city in motion, where not a single building is anchored to the ground, with hotels, event halls and other structures all on rails and movable at will. That's the vision behind 'A ...

Mad Locomotives: Steaming Hot Prototype & Concept Trains

Trains and railroads, synonymous with both the Industrial Revolution and the Old West, were the transportation powerhouses of the 19th century. The 20th century, not so much - but that hasn't ...

6 Abandoned Railroads, Subways, Trains & Transit Stations

Across most of the developed world, railroad was once king. The installation of train tracks across America was a momentous occasion that made wide commercial trade possible from one coast to the ...

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