Comment on Universal Railway BusComments−glonq3yPretty cool for train hobbyists....although from the title, I was expecting some kind of bus that runs on train tracks :P−macintux3yIn case you haven’t seen the recent Tom Scott video about a bus that rides the rails in Japan: https://youtu.be/Kn56bMZ9OE8−diggernet3yOh, ok, here you go:https://macsmotorcitygarage.com/for-both-road-and-rail-the-e...−xattt3yThis looks like something out of the Fahrenheit 451 movie.−nicole_express3yHave you heard of the FCD Railbus? An experiment by the New Haven Railroad in the 1950's to do just that...In the end, it was more cost-effective for the New Haven to just go bankrupt−seabass-labrax3yWould this have any advantages over trams, though? I can think of one disadvantage: rails would be higher than the road, disrupting cars and bicycles, whereas the grooves that trams follow can usually be crossed by cars or bicycles.
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Pretty cool for train hobbyists.
...although from the title, I was expecting some kind of bus that runs on train tracks :P
In case you haven’t seen the recent Tom Scott video about a bus that rides the rails in Japan: https://youtu.be/Kn56bMZ9OE8
Oh, ok, here you go:
https://macsmotorcitygarage.com/for-both-road-and-rail-the-e...
This looks like something out of the Fahrenheit 451 movie.
Have you heard of the FCD Railbus? An experiment by the New Haven Railroad in the 1950's to do just that...
In the end, it was more cost-effective for the New Haven to just go bankrupt
Would this have any advantages over trams, though? I can think of one disadvantage: rails would be higher than the road, disrupting cars and bicycles, whereas the grooves that trams follow can usually be crossed by cars or bicycles.