Every few hours we saw either another car or a "road train"--a truck hauling two or three trailers.
Every few hours we saw either another car or a "road train"-a truck hauling two or three trailers.
They leave out Colin Ferguson, the black man who opened fire in a Long Island Rail Road train in 1993, killing 6 and wounding 19.
One major step forward was taken last week on a motorway outside Barcelona - the first-ever test drive of a road train among other road users.
ENGADGET: Volvo's driverless road train in Spain is public mainly on the plain (video)
One lead vehicle and four trailing vehicles - consisting of a Volvo S60, a Volvo V60 and a Volvo XC60 plus a truck - made up the historic road train in Spain.
ENGADGET: Volvo's driverless road train in Spain is public mainly on the plain (video)
For the first time ever a road train comprising a Volvo XC60, a Volvo V60 and a Volvo S60 plus one truck automatically driving in convoy behind a lead vehicle has operated on a public motorway among other road users.
ENGADGET: Volvo's driverless road train in Spain is public mainly on the plain (video)
Tina Fallon said the latest accidents at the bridge on Derby Road were causing traffic problems along the road and train delays.
Next season, Bodine plans to send a tech on the road to service Night Train-2.
Panama's canal officials scorn all such plans: shifting containers from ship to train or road and back again costs too much, they say.
Then, from around a corner appeared an incongruous sight: wedged at the end of the gravel road was a gleaming new train station.
The train derailed near Regent Road as empty carriages were being moved from Ardwick to Carnforth in Lancashire.
BBC: Salford rail delays after train derailed and caught fire
Eventually the train tracks crossed over Lovell Road, and we got off them there while the road took us across the river on a steel and concrete bridge that was falling to pieces now.
The same goes for the train stations, worlds unto themselves that are worth exploring before jumping on the train or heading out to the road.
In New Delhi, the nation's capital, public transport was partially hit with taxis and some buses off the road, but the city's metro train service wasn't affected.
It began as a low rumble, I thought it was a train or large machine on the road at first, but when the whole house began to shake I realised it could only be an earthquake or perhaps a large plane crash.
It would provide riders arriving in Dumfries by train with a safe, off-road route to the 7Stanes at Mabie Forest.
"I used to train at the Aquatics Centre over the road and I often ride past the university when I'm training now, but to be invited to accept this honour is just amazing for me", she said.
With the airspace having been closed, a marathon trek started with a train journey from Nottingham to London, followed by a faster, sleeker train from London to Brussels and then the longest road trip of my life to the destination for Saturday's WBC super-middleweight title defence against Mikkel Kessler.
He even has a five-year contract with the Malaysian Central Bank run non-profit, International Center for Leadership in Finance, to train 210 IR managers per year on how to come up with a road map for the organization.
In 2012, the transport minister approved tunnelling underground a section of the A10 ring road that bisects Zuidas and there are also plans to enlarge and improve the Amsterdam Zuid train station, both to begin construction by 2015.
Train traffic also ground to a halt in places, in addition to air and road travel.
Since one freight train can carry as much as 280 lorries can, railways can help to limit the rise in road congestion.
For example, public transport is expensive: a one-way ten-kilometre (six-mile) train ride from suburban Oslo into the city costs NKr26, which is twice as much as the road toll.
The MTA took extensive measures before the storm to limit the amount of water flooding into tunnels, including by boarding up ventilation grates in low-lying stations, piling sandbags at station entrances, inflating a rubber dam in the Long Island Rail Road's West Side yards in Manhattan and hastily erecting a floodwall across the mouth of the No. 3 train tunnel near East 148th Street in Harlem.
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