An artist’s impression of the Caterpillar Train, coaches will run on the tracks — and under them as well. An artist’s impression of the Caterpillar Train, coaches will run on the tracks — and under them as well. Caterpillar Trains, an idea meant to take the train system to residential areas, has just won an Indian Railways engineer a global competition on innovations at Boston’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In a nutshell, the Caterpillar Train, or C-Train, envisages a citywide network of lightweight, elevated train coaches running at about 100 kmph on a track supported by poles bent into arches. The “vertical depot” concept, he said, is a first for any urban transport system.

Source: Indian Express August 22, 2016 22:41 UTC