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Russian enthusiast builds his own steam train mini-railway

He and his friends are now busy building a steamboat and are also planning to make a steam plane

For Pavel Chilin, building his own railway was the fulfillment of a childhood dream. It took the 62-year-old electrical engineer more than 10 years to build a 350-meter (383-yard)-long narrow-gauge railway twisting through the grounds of his steads about 50 kilometers (some 30 miles) outside St. Petersburg. The design of his steam train is based on a classic example from the early 20th century.

Delsbo Electric 2017 | Autoblog Minute

The Delsbo Electric Battery Powered Rail Vehicle Challenge is an annual competition that takes place in Sweden. Open to students, the goal of this challenge is to create a battery-powered rail vehicle that minimizes energy consumption.

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Land Rover Discovery Sport pulls like a freight train

No, literally. This Disco Sport pulled a trio of luxury train carriages across a bridge.

To show just what its latest model can do, Land Rover fitted a set of rail wheels to the new Discovery Sport and had it pull 60 times its own weight across a railway bridge.

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