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Transportation

Tren de Sóller

Tren de Sóller

This historic electric train has operated with regularity since the early 1900s.

Safety City

Baltimore, Maryland

Safety City

A miniature city within a city, complete with traffic signs, signals, and streets to teach Baltimore's youth traffic safety laws.

Podcast: La Paz Cebritas

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

The Podcast Team June 16, 2021

Esztergomi Szénrakodó

Esztergom, Hungary

Esztergomi szénrakodó

An abandoned cable car station located on the Danube stands like a haunted house above the river.

Filmmaking in the Porte des Lilas station.

The Ghost Subway Station in Paris Where Films Come to Life

In Porte des Lilas, it’s lights, camera, Métro!

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank May 25, 2021

Locomotives more than a century old rust on the tracks at the Mar Mikhael station in the middle of Beirut.

The Daunting Challenge of Saving Lebanon's Storied Rail Network

Can rusting locomotives and crumbling stations become a vibrant transportation network again?

Pesha Magid May 4, 2021

Potsdam Pirschheide in 2013

Potsdam, Germany

Potsdam-Pirschheide Train Station

In a divided Germany, Potsdam's "central" train station was relocated to the city's southern suburbs to avoid West Berlin.

Amtrak train No. 10, the North Coast Hiawatha, on the Milwaukee Road main line along the Mississippi River at Dakota, Minnesota, in 1975, with the "Bloody Nose" paint scheme.

It Takes a Lot of Thought and Planning to Paint a Train

Over the last 50 years, Amtrak has seen many designs come and go.

Justin Franz April 28, 2021

Phyllis Diller

18 Places to Discover Innovation in Roosevelt Island and NYC

The story of the city that never sleeps is inscribed with a past full of technological innovation, engineering wonders, and scientific discoveries.

Sponsored by Graduate Hotels

Retirement for this 707 means being parked beside a forest.

The Last Plane at Tegel Airport Has Survived Hijackers and Cold War

Parked far from the runway, the dilapidated 707 is an artifact of Berlin's divided past.

Susannah Edelbaum February 17, 2021

Keddie Wye

Quincy, California

Keddie Wye

A showcase of engineering might that was also symbolic of westward expansion.

Funivia del Colle (Kohlerer Bahn)

Funivia del Colle (Kohlerer Bahn)

The first passenger cable car in the world.

Former raft port.

Augsburg, Germany

Alter Floßhafen (Former Raft Port)

Next to the well-known retaining weir "Hochablass" is the former raft port for the city of Augsburg.

Birmingham, England

Kings Norton Stop Lock

This ingenious engineering solution was built to stop the "theft" of canal water.

Aboard the ship <em>Gobustan</em>, which spent months abandoned in Ravenna, Italy.

When Ships Are Abandoned, Stuck Sailors Struggle to Get By—and Get Paid

“We are satisfied with little, but even that little is impossible today.”

Federico Formica November 17, 2020

Elizabeth Jennings in 1855.

The Story of the Teacher Who Desegregated New York Transit

In 1854, Elizabeth Jennings was forcibly kicked off a horsecar. Her fight changed the city.

Jerry Mikorenda September 7, 2020

Meet Ms. Showtime: Motorcyclist, Poet, Trailblazer

A microbus at Olivar del Conde, Mexico City.

How Mexico City Crowdsourced a Map of Its Riotous Informal Bus System

The fourth episode of TED’s Far Flung podcast looks at the power of collective creativity.

Anna Phelan July 10, 2020