Self-Assembling Autonomous Bogies Will Replace Locomotives to Make Trains Something Else

Historically speaking, the train is the most successful means of transportation ever invented by humankind. If we are allowed to stretch things a bit and consider wagons running on specially-designed stone ways as trains, then their lineage stretches back to over 2,000 years BCE, to a place called Babylon. In their current form, meaning machines that move along on tracks under locomotive power, (continue reading...)