Marmaray Railway, Eurasia Rail, Contemporary Silk Road

Please READ MORE for the video. The Silk Road is the ancient trade route between Europe and Asia. Merchants transport silks, spices, valuable goods through that way. The Silk Road has not only been the route of merchants, but also been the route of armies, ideas, religions and culture from east to west and west to east. The first documents about the route of silk road date back to Ancient Greeks and Romans. In the past, grueling caravan journey were made on the Silk Road, it has touristic importance today. Marmaray continues to add value to life while connecting two continents just like the Silk Road. The Marmaray has ERTMS as well as CBTC signalization system at the same time.

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Sand Hydrophobization, Chemical Sand Hydrophobization Method, Sand Hydrophobization Formula

Please READ MORE for the Document. Sand Hydrophobization, Sand Hydrophobization Chemical Solution, Hydrophobic Sand. No more wheel slip on rails.

Chemical Sand Hydrophobization Method Pdf Chemical Sand Hydrophobization Method

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Izmir Karsiyaka Tram, İzmir Karşıyaka Tramvayı

Please READ MORE for the video. Izmir (a.k.a. the Pearl of the Aegean), Karsiyaka Tram. Have a nice trip...

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Train Race

Please READ MORE for the video. Trains may appear like they are racing sometimes, if the track and signalization is adequate for it.

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Train Wheel and Axle Failures

Please READ MORE for the video. Train wheels are not generally angular, they are round. There are various types of damage on/in train wheels and against these, there are detection ways of them like DT, NDT, NDE to carry out corrective and preventive action.

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Railway Track Through the Football Pitch

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Istanbul, Golden Horn, APS Catenary And Tram.

Please READ MORE for the video. This is street level power line. APS track have sections which 11 meters and each section occurs 8 meter conductive and 3 meter neutral section. Do not worry, only section electrifies corresponding to vehicle. Non contacted 3rd energy rail (ETR System) is fully embedded in the middle of two rails on the line. Non contacted 3rd energy rail (ETR System) is fully embedded in the middle of two rails on the line (at the alignment section).

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Train and Car Coupling

Please READ MORE for the video. Locomotives and wagons coupling to make train formation but generally not use cars for the aim of coupling.

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Locomotives and Natural Power Units

Please READ MORE for the video. Zero emission for the locomotive engines. Do you think, locomotives use only diesel, electric, hybrid or hydrogen power?

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Rail Cutting

Please READ MORE for the video. Rail Cutting. There are a variety of rail cutting methods. Safety is the first priority in the implementation of each method.

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Adjustment Mistakes, Do It Right The First Time (DRIFT), Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA), Jidoka, Poka Yoke

Please READ MORE for the video. Adjustment Mistakes, Long Jump Failure DRIFT (Do It Right The First Time). That's mean fault in a nutshell but actually that is cost of poor quality. When did not to be noticed before process, it will turn to muda (waste). Also its results can be fatal. Luckily it can inspected through FMEA technique.

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Train Doors And Passengers

Please READ MORE for the video. There are deterministic and stochastic approaches to evaluate and estimate passenger flow and behaviors in transportation planning science. Railway stations' capacity and railway vehicle door gauges and types are veriables in some transportation planning formulates as well as the waiting time of the vehicle at the station. Rush hours are bottleneck in transportation capacity planning. 

There are AW scales for passenger vehicles capacity. 

AW0: weight of empty and ready to run vehicle. 

AW1: AW0 + full seated load, including crew. 

AW4: AW1 + standees at 8 passengers m^2. 

 Also, safety is an element that should not be overlooked. Well, have you ever been informed about the use of emergency buttons and how should you get on and off a train?

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Pantograph and Catenary Damages and Pantograph Airflow

Please READ MORE for the video. Pantograph and Catenary Damages and Pantograph Airflow.

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Bad Track

Please READ MORE for the video. Too many fishplates in a short distance. Probably track has made by piece of rails.

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Rail Joint and Crack

Please READ MORE for the video.Rail Joint and Crack.

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Slug and Train Delay

Please READ MORE for the video. Slug and Train Delay. Small details can be big deal. Both of train schedule and punctuality are important things, slugs and snails or something like that too.

Newspapers;

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/68141902

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55823780/4421478

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/62203963

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Train Passes Through Apartment, Monorail Station In Apartment

Please READ MORE for the video. There are two main different types of monorail system. Suspended (vehicle suspended below the track) and Straddle (vehicles over the track). Both of those type of monorails have advantages and disadvantages to each other. When deciding which to choose, landforms are significant variable. Suspended type needs columns throughout track, whereas some hills be useable as columns for straddle type of track. That monorail transportation system uses a apartment floor as a station.

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Derailment Experiment, Railway Sabotage

Please READ MORE for the video. Test is not everything but many thing. This experiment is about controlled derailment of a freight train due to rail failure. It calls as shortly Sabotage. You can find out rail joint location type (Square (generally on alignment sections) or Staggered joint (generally on curve sections). We can say that bogies ensure alignment of wheels on track. Also wheel diameter is significant parameter for that kind of derailment. I have to say that Nadal and Weinstock criterions are about derailment (rail and wheel angles and their coefficient of friction and vertical and lateral forces etc.). 

Some of railway sabotages in literature. 

• 1905: 20th Century Limited derailment - Although unconfirmed, the evidence pointed heavily to malicious involvement in the derailment of the New York Central Railroad's crack passenger train, the 20th Century Limited, resulting in 21 deaths. 

• 1951: Huntly rail bridge bombing – a rail bridge in Huntly, New Zealand, was blown up in order to disrupt coal supplies to a nearby power station, aiding the cause of striking workers. 

• 1995: Palo Verde derailment – a train in Palo Verde, Arizona, was derailed by saboteurs shifting the rails out of position, causing one fatality. The case remains unsolved. 

• 2002: Rafiganj train wreck – a train derailed on a bridge over a river in Bihar, India, killing at least 130 people.

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The Lost Train Zanetti

Please READ MORE for the video. Date: June 1911 Location: Lombardi Mountain Italy. Event : a train disappears with 104 passenger and crew. Zanetti the Railway company announced a free ride for a new model of its train. An interesting part of the event is 2 passengers could get out of train before it disappears. They was v shocked and in a very bad condition. One of them said that “as soon as he reached the tunnel that day, thick white smoke started filling the train. People suddenly got nervous and started screaming. Almost everyone felt that a big accident has happened on the train.” It's up to you to think it's a legend or a supernatural event.. On the other hand, you can think about earth’s magnetic field and rails are electrically conductive like Faraday Cage on earth.

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Shinkansen, Bullet Train, High Speed Train, Yüksek Hızlı Tren

Please READ MORE for the video. Shinkansen (Nihongo) : Bullet Train A type of them have speed record with 603 km/s What about distance between home and workplace? If deem that distance is 30 km, you could reach your workplace in 3 minute theoretically.

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Combined Railway, Funicular And Elevator

Please READ MORE for the video. One car, two function. Which slope is max. limitation on railways? 7 degree (12 %), 10 degree ( 17 %) or 12 degree (21 %)? Well, what about 90 degree (∞ %)?

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Railway And Road, Railway Crossing

Please READ MORE for the video. Warning, Stop, Look, Listen before crossing the line. Some roads share traffic with trains or it is just the opposite.

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Aircraft Accident, Plane Accident, Man Sucking To Jet Engine

Please READ MORE for the video. For Civil Aviation Accidents Statistical Analysis; Civil Aviation Accidents Statistical Analysis

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Driving Side, LHD And RHD

Please READ MORE for the video. The roots of many rules applied today have laid in the past. 1435mm normal gauge of railway track diameter comes from chariot wheel gauge. Also driving side goes back to ancient times. Some places use LHD and some others RHD. People of the world have been using the left side of the road almost everywhere in ancient times. Because, it has been helping their personal safety. Many people right handed and scabbards keep at the left side (please see Aiki-ken, Aikido etc.). “In the late 1700s, however, teamsters in France and the United States began hauling farm products in big wagons pulled by several pairs of horses. These wagons had no driver’s seat; instead the driver sat on the left rear horse, so he could keep his right arm free to lash the team. Since he was sitting on the left, he naturally wanted everybody to pass on the left so he could look down and make sure he kept clear of the oncoming wagon’s wheels. Therefore he kept to the right side of the road.” [https://www.worldstandards.eu/cars/driving-on-the-left/#:~:text=In%20the%20early%20years%20of,changed%20to%20right%2Dhand%20driving.]

Passengers board planes from the left as in boats around the world.

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Truck Catenary, Road Catenary System, Greener Transportation

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