Showing posts with label rails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rails. Show all posts
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
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Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Rail Velocipede circa 1870. These hand pumped cycles used by Railway maintenance to check the line in for damaged rails or loose spikes. Station telegraph operators were also able to deliver messages to people living in towns along the track with them. The Rail Velocipede had usually an outrigger third wheel..we can assume this model would have had one..but was lost in its long life. Via:
Monday, 11 July 2011
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Sunday, 27 March 2011
Saturday, 8 January 2011
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Ride to live, live to ride: Buildings roll through the city on railway tracks in this masterplan by Swedish architects Jagnefalt Milton for Åndalsnes in Norway. Via: De Zeen (thanks for the tip bro)Read more...
Monday, 20 December 2010
Sunday, 5 December 2010
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Monday, 2 August 2010
Monday, 5 April 2010
"The locals of the Caribbean port town of Buenaventura had come up with a novel form of transportation-the Moto-Rail. The front wheel of a common 125 motorbike was bolted onto a wooden platform, which had a runner on one side, connecting with the old train track, while the rear wheel sat on the track and drove the rig.
We sat on a little wooden bench on the platform, and the driver started the motor and off we went. It was an ingenious mode of transportation, and as we rode along the tracks, we could not suppress our maniacal grins.
When we rounded a corner, and coming in the other direction another moto-rail approaching. This was a single-track railway and someone had to get off. Our driver asked us to get off the platform, and he and his co-pilot swiftly picked up the whole bike and platform combo off the tracks and on to the side of the railway, the other bike passed us, and we picked the bike back up and placed it back on the tracks, this happened another two or three times on the way to our final destination, some 25 minutes down the tracks, to San Cypriano"Read more...
Via: Daniel Shell & Jaquie Brazier
Monday, 29 March 2010
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