Because people are weird, this is a video of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa based Heartland Brass Quintet hanging out by the tracks and attempting to communicate with a passing train using the same notes the train blows. Was it a success? I’m not sure, I don’t understand traintalk all that

This is a video of a model train at Hamburg, Germany’s Miniatur Wunderland setting the Guinness World Record for the longest melody played by a model train, by tapping wine glasses set up along its 211-meter (692-feet) track. The train performs a melody of twenty different classical songs on over

In terrifying news, this is a video captured by a motorist in Fairmont, Minnesota of a bunch of train tanker cars carrying ethanol derailing and rolling over at a traffic crossing, causing a chain/train reaction of other tankers rolling over. For reference, that is very scary. Still — was the

This is a video from Thackerville, Oklahoma of a semi car hauler that got stuck on the tracks getting absolutely pounded by an Amtrak train en route to Oklahoma City. Thankfully, the truck’s driver and his dogs were able to safely escape before the crash, and five train passengers were

Because some railcars have had it with Thomas The Tank Engine’s bullshit, this is a short video of a lone hopper car that went rogue in Minnesota and is finally stopped by a railroad bumper (aka buffer stop). Or was that just a pile of rocks? My point is this:

This is a video of a couple cyclists trying to take a shortcut through a train tunnel in Floriano, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and almost getting smacked by an oncoming train, which was clearly taking this game of chicken a lot more seriously than they were. In one of the

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 compilation video from Kurihara, Japan’s Kurikoma-Kōgen railway station of bullet trains passing by at up to 200MPH in the snow. Could you imagine standing there? That would be terrifying. Especially if you were hoping to catch one of those trains. Me? I really don’t like traveling any