Acela Express (often called simply Acela) is the name used by Amtrak for the high-speed tilting train service operating between Washington, D.C. and Boston via Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York along the Northeast Corridor (NEC) in the Northeast United States.
Over the past year or so numerous wooden cars, some far more successful than others, have been appearing on the intertubes and seeing as i’m a sucker for wooden vehicles in general i thought it my duty to bring you a collection of the best that i’ve seen.
No, your eyes do not deceive you. Every Wednesday schoolgirls of this school in Beijing should wash windows of the classes outside. The school management says, that thus brings up at children bravery.
Cambodians have come up with an ingenious way to make use of the underused train tracks. Locals have constructed their own 'unofficial' bamboo trains out of bamboo, motorcycle engines and recycled tank parts. The bamboo trains carry passengers and cargo from village to village along the track.
Xiphosura is an order (biology) of marine chelicerates which includes a large number of extinct lineages and only four recent species in the family Limulidae, which include the horseshoe crabs. The group has hardly changed in millions of years...
The term luxury yacht refers to a very expensive privately owned yacht which is professionally crewed. Also known as a Super Yacht, a luxury yacht may be either a sailing or motor yacht.
The Volkswagen Golf is a compact car / small family car manufactured by Volkswagen since 1974 and marketed worldwide across six generations, in various body configurations and under various nameplates - prominently as the Volkswagen Rabbit in the United States and Canada (Mk1 and Mk5), and as the Volkswagen Caribe in Mexico (Mk1).
The front-wheel drive Golf was Volkswagen's first successful replacement for the air-cooled Volkswagen Beetle. Historically, it is Volkswagen's best-selling model and the world's third best-selling model, with more than 25 million built by 2007.