Video of train that lays its own tracks

This video starts off pretty slowly, but if you watch long enough, you’ll catch a glimpse of a P811-S track renewal train that lays its own track as it pushes ahead. With this sort of technology, this train can pretty much go wherever it pleases (at a very slow pace of course). [via]

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  1. Circe says:

    Hey, that’s like five miles from where I live!

    This thing is rebuilding a railroad to the Ruhr area. It’s pissing off a lot of people. If you think the thing laying the rails is interesting, you should hear the politics behind it…The EU at its best.

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