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View Forward: Driverless London Train Cars Arriving in 2020

Called the New Tube, the next phase in London's Underground system will feature partially and entirely automated cars, including ones that let passengers sit up front in the space heretofore ...

Trained Eye: Rail Art Plays Visual Tricks with Tracks & Ties

This artist colors outside the lines (or off the rails, if you will) with his clever train-centric creations, dashing onto the tracks to complete pieces that play with the site-specific transit ...

Time-Traveling Trams: 30,000 LED Lights Vanish Street Trains

Extended exposure photography combined with a unique art installation project creates an incredible time lapse illusion on the streets of Budapest, making train cars appear to disappear in a ...

High-Speed Art: Murals Spray-Painted for Train Passengers

Made to been seen at high speeds, these colorful patterns intentionally form a sequential whole when experienced by commuters in adjacent railway cars. Katharina Grosse (with photos ...

End of the Line: Exploring Unseen Terminal Subway Stations

Bustling hubs give way to spindly spokes, infrequently taking locals to particularly distant destinations and often entirely unseen by tourists and other travelers. In the city business or ...

Stop Shops: Virtual Store Shelves in Subway & Bus Stations

If you are going to have to wait for a ride anyway, why not do some shopping? No, not on your laptop or that tiny screen of your smartphone - right there on the wall, via virtual aisles on a ...

Faux Facades: Fake Buildings Hide Trains, Power & More

When is a building not a building? When it is only a facade, (aka a) dummy! You might have passed right by train tunnels, communications towers or even entirely empty buildings and never realized ...

5M SF of Sleek: World’s Largest Subterranean Rail Station

The largest underground high-speed rail station in the world will connect Hong Kong to Beijing, and measure an incredible 4,628,481 square feet. Designed by Andrew Bromberg of architecture firm ...

Cities on Rails: Mobile Master Plan Turns Trains into Towns

Modular thinking is brilliant and infectious, expanding and spreading from industrial-revolution technologies to three-dimensional printing and beyond. But how big can modularity get? Imagine the ...

8th World Wonder in the Works: Tunnel from Russia to USA

It sounds like science fiction, but is back on the table after nearly a century of talk: a railway to reconnect the Far East with the Far West, theoretically enabling a Londoner to travel by rail ...

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