Travelers in Germany are facing delays and disruptions as a union representing Germany’s train drivers conducts a 24-hour strike ByThe Associated Press December 8, 2023, 5:23 AM A man checks his mobile phone in the central train station in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, when train drivers of the GDL union went on a … Read more
A union representing German train drivers is calling its members to strike for 24 hours this week, following the breakdown of talks with the main national operator in what is shaping up to be an unusually difficult dispute over pay and working hours ByThe Associated Press December 6, 2023, 12:40 PM FILE – People watch … Read more
Ukraine targeted a freight train with four explosive devices, an unnamed source told CNN. It is the only major railroad connecting Russia and China for military supplies, per Russian media. “The explosion is yet another successful special operation by the SBU,” the source told CNN. Ukraine set off four explosive devices on a freight train … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, as part of an overnight bombardment felt across the country, local officials said Saturday, while drones that Russian officials blamed on the Ukrainian military targeted areas around Moscow and the region of Smolensk. A ballistic missile was shot down as it approached the Ukrainian capital, said … Read more
Image: Dreamworks Pictures Dreamworks’ How to Train Your Dragon movies were well-liked hidden gems during the 2010s, and it seemed inevitable that the series would eventually return in some form. (In film, at least, because the series has been chugging along with various TV spinoffs.) Earlier this year, we learned that would be the case … Read more
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Detroit’s Michigan Central Station, the once beautiful but now abandoned train station that Ford is rehabilitating into an innovation and technology hub, is about to be swarmed by drones. The Ford subsidiary that operates the train station, Michigan Central, announced today that it’s teaming up with the state’s Department of Transportation (MDOT) to test out … Read more
A cargo train has hit a passenger train outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, leaving at least 15 people dead and scores injured ByThe Associated Press October 23, 2023, 7:57 AM This photograph provided by the Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defense Department shows rescuers and others after a cargo train hit a passenger train at … Read more
A British judge has ruled in favor of Richard Branson’s Virgin group in its lawsuit against a U.S. train company over a licensing agreement ByThe Associated Press October 12, 2023, 8:52 AM FILE – Richard Branson, of Virgin Group, prepares to unfurl a banner during a naming ceremony for the Brightline train station, to be … Read more
Bigfoot believers are fired up about a video, shared by OutThere Colorado on Oct. 10, that was recorded from inside a tourist train in southwestern Colorado. The footage shows a large, hairy biped walking across a hillside before squatting in the sagebrush. Some Sasquatch hunters are pointing to the clip as obvious proof of Bigfoot’s … Read more
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s high-speed passenger train service suffered the first fatality on its new extension to Orlando on Thursday when a pedestrian was struck in what appears to be a suicide, officials said. Overall, it was Brightline’s 99th death since it began operations six years ago. A northbound Brightline train headed to … Read more