So why is this the case? As stated above, the issue comes with counting the train's axles. Along the train track, detectors are placed to count the number of wheels which travel over it.

A track geometry car (also known as a track recording car) is an automated track inspection vehicle on a rail transport ...

Thankfully, there are still some pretty weird train lines running around the world. There’s a brand new rail network in Switzerland that runs on trains that can expand and contract, and the ...

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and the fact that the trains actually need to be running for anyone to make use of this feature. There's one weird Sydney quirk tourists are obsessed with... Other quirky things tourists tend to ...

From weird places to low places ... Along the way, they recorded standards by old-school train lovers the likes of Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers in their lodgings and even on railway platforms.

IT FILLED WITH SOME WEIRD SMOKE. THERE’S A LOUD CRASH. I THINK SOMETHING UNDER THE TRAIN MIGHT HAVE RUPTURED BECAUSE THERE’S A BUNCH OF SMOKE IN THERE. UNABLE TO MOVE THE TRAIN. AND AFTER ...