Locomotive Type
Steam lomotive in Japan:type D51

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.~~Mikhail Kalashnikov (Flickr)

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Indian Railways (reporting mark IR) is an Indian state-owned enterprise, owned
and operated by the government of India through the Ministry of Railways. It
is one of the world's largest railway networks comprising 115,000 km (71,000
mi) of track over a route of 65,000 km (40,000 mi) and 7,500 stations. IR
carries about 7,500 million passengers annually or more than 20 million
passengers daily (more than a half of which are suburban passengers) and 2.8
million tons of freight daily. In 2011-2012 Indian Railways earned 104,278.79
crore (US$18.98 billion) which consists of 69,675.97 crore (US$12.68 billion)
from freight and 28,645.52 crore (US$5.21 billion) from passengers tickets.

Railways were first introduced to India in 1853 from Bombay to Thane. In 1951
the systems were nationalized as one unit, the Indian Railways, becoming one
of the largest networks in the world. IR operates both long distance and
suburban rail systems on a multi-gauge network of broad, metre and narrow
gauges. It also owns locomotive and coach production facilities at several
places in India and are assigned codes identifying their gauge, kind of power
and type of operation. Its operations cover twenty four states and ...

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Steam Era
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'War Z' Game Producer Lists Non-Existent Features, Blames Customers' Eyesight And Overactive Imagination (Techdirt)

As has been discussed here many times, screwing up in public is rarely
pleasant, but if the one screwing up takes fast, direct action to respond to
the problem and handles complaints with the right blend of contrition and
forthrightness, damage will remain minimal. Not only that, but considering
that contrition and forthrightness are a rarity in an era where companies sue
individuals for writing bad reviews, this sort of action often sees the erring
person/company earning praise and new customers for taking the road less
traveled.

For zombie-shooter "The War Z," everything that could be handled badly was,
starting with a rushed development cycle that resulted in a game that
underdelivered and overpromised. Things went from bad to worse when executive
Sergey Titov decided to blame his games' issues on the now-angry customers.

The first misstep was releasing the game in beta state while still expecting
customers to pay between $14.99-49.99 for the dubious privilege of traipsing
around an underpopulated MMO with only the _promise_ of more and better
features somewhere down the road, most of which will require additional
payment. Considering the game went from alpha to "worth actual money" in under
two months (beta ...

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Jordan Bridge builder fined for girder accident (hamptonroads)

CHESAPEAKE The company that built the new South Norfolk Jordan Bridge has been
fined $28,000 following an investigation into a construction accident this
summer that delayed the span's opening more than three months.

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Palestine UN Recognition: Nonmember State Endorsement Makes Palestinians Euphoric (Huffington post)

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Euphoric Palestinians erupted in cheers, honked car
horns and chanted "God is great" after the United Nations endorsed an
independent state of Palestine, giving sweeping international backing to their
demands for sovereignty over lands Israel occupied in 1967.

The historic General Assembly decision late Thursday to accept "Palestine" as
a non-member observer state won't actually grant independence to the 4.3
million Palestinians who live in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza
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It is estimated that there are 7000 tunnel under the USA border and about 250
under construction each month. Also observers have watched young Mexicans
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