In the mid-1960’s, New York Central Railroad engineer Don Wetzel was exploring ways to make trains run safer, cheaper, but most importantly: faster. And, clearly, the most logical means of ...

SOVIET engineers’ visions of a futuristic turbo train which could hit lightening speeds now sits rotting in a factory yard. The 50 ton jet-powered train could reportedly hit speeds of around 180mph ...

As crazy as it may sound, you can try out a jet-powered rail car. Don’t think you can do that in reality, but at least you can feel a bit of the outlandish experience in a simulator. We ended up again ...

The front of the Soviet jet train on a monument in Tver, Russia. By Eskimozzz [PD], via Wikimedia Commons. It started with one of those odd links that pop up from time to time on Hacker News: “The ...

We at autoevolution usually deal with cars (mostly) and their derivatives, motorbikes (regularly) and bicycles, airplanes and spacecraft, and seafaring vessels. However, there is one unsung hero of ...

During the 20th century, dramatic visions of what human life would soon be like through technological advances were extremely popular. People imagined that cheap space travel, permanent colonies on ...

SITTING rusting and abandoned in the yard of a Soviet Union-era factory is a vision of the future from a bygone era. With sleek rounded lines and two enormous engines bolted to the roof, once upon a ...

The turbo train was reportedly faster than the modern Japanese fast trains SOVIET engineers’ visions of a futuristic turbo train which could hit lightening speeds now sits rotting in a factory yard.