A Quick Look At Superfast Bullet Trains

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

This month in 1964 that the country first began using its world-famous bullet trains, so we've got a few, well, fast facts about them. Plus: today in Bridgeville, Delaware, the Apple-Scrapple Festival is starting.

Shinkansen about more than speed (Japan Times via Archive.org)

15 Things You Didn't Know About Bullet Trains (Thrillist)

How Japan's Shinkansen bullet trains changed the world of rail travel (CNN)

Tracing the History of Railways in Japan Through Art (Spoon and Tamago)

Bridgeville Apple-Scrapple Festival

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