The World from PRX

trains

A crowded train platform with numerous people dressed in winter clothing, carrying luggage, as they board or disembark a train.
Transportation
Why overnight trains are making a global comeback
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Transportation
Construction underway on the world’s longest tunnel immersed underwater
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Transit
A century-old British tram gets restored to its former glory
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Arts, Culture & Media
Poems of the Hobo Road
Stockholm's highly-efficient subway system. Trains are known for running frequently and on time. They have large ridership but are not overly crowded because of the frequency of the trains.
Economics
US transportation is so far behind Sweden’s it’s not even funny
Departure board on display at Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Technology
Those ‘flapping’ Solari boards at US train stations are leaving the terminal
A migrant sits on her bags while waiting for a train in Presevo, Serbia.
Justice
No bathrooms. No heat. Aboard the decrepit refugee ‘cattle cars.’
A magnetically levitating (maglev) train operated by Central Japan Railway
Economics
How to bring high-speed trains to the US