This is a video of train maniac (trainiac) Jason Shron giving a passenger’s point-of-view tour of the HO scale model railway he built to resemble some of the the real-life route from Toronto to Montreal, aka the Canadian National Railway’s Kingston Subdivision line. The interior of the train seen in
This is a timelapse video from Youtuber Ivan Cehic, who mounted a GoPro on a cargo ship to film its passage through the Suez Canal. Thankfully, this particular ship managed to pass without incident, unlike some other ships in recent history. Now I’m not going to name any names, but
This is a short compilation of trucks using runaway truck ramps due to losing their brakes. That first ramp (above) — that thing is nuts. That pit the trucks fall into is deep. It’s like the ball pit at a Chuck E Cheese, but with presumably less urine and game
This is a delightful video of Russian man Dan Sheekoz giving a tour of the $100/month studio (living room is bedroom) home he shares with his wife (~$130 – $160 with all bills depending on summer/winter weather), all while he practices the English he’s learning on Youtube. He mentions at
This is some dashcam footage from Scott Lake Hill, Alberta, Canada, of a Ford Ranger losing control on an icy turn of the highway and doing a 360 at around 75MPH. Thankfully, the driver is able to regain control of his vehicle without flipping or hitting anything else. That’s a
This is some dashcam footage from a vehicle preparing to pass a U-Haul on Interstate 24 near Jasper, Tennessee when a large piece of ice from the top of the moving truck decides this car will not be passing go or collecting $200 and destroys its windshield with a flying
Brought to us by Youtuber glamourdaze, this is some AI restored footage (noise and artifacts removed, upscaled to 60fps and 4K, color added) of life at Paris’s cafes in the 1920’s. It’s all got a very Great Gatsby feel to it, just Parisian. Obviously, while watching it I’ll try to
This is a link to Traffic Scotland’s Trunk Road Gritter Tracker, an online map that provides real-time tracking of its snow removal and gritting trucks, all of which have been cleverly named. Some of my favorites include ‘Lord Coldemort & You’re A Blizzard Harry’, ‘The Blizzard Of Oz’, ‘Spready Mercury’,