Hungary's steam train enthusiasts working to preserve a communist-era relic
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Lenin's portrait still graces the wall, but his scowl can't dampen Istvan Szikora's labor of love -- saving Hungary's old steam trains from extinction.
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Engineers have been trying for decades to perfect and promote the use of powerful electromagnets to suspend trains above their tracks so they can travel as fast as some airplanes.
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At the Getty Institute, conservators work to preserve art constructed out of an ever-expanding array of synthetic products.
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Pat Symonds explains why Friday in Hungary poses particular challenges to drivers and engineers alike.
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After 40 years rattling through the streets of Zurich and past a church where writer James Joyce is buried, a fleet of ageing Swiss trams is to find a new lease of life in a provincial Ukrainian town.
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Jewish leaders are to join Polish dignitaries for the start of work on a museum in the former Warsaw Ghetto.
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In a basement in Moscow, the Museum of Soviet Slot Machines aims to pay homage to childhood favorites from the Cold War.
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Descendants of two pre-Russian Revolution art collectors are seeking compensation from Moscow for confiscated masterpieces going on display in a controversial London exhibition, they told AFP Tuesday.
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MOKRA GORA, Serbia and Montenegro  - The Sargan  Eight train twists gently through the remote green mountain  ridges of deepest Serbia, triggering flashbacks from the fabled  days of Tito's partisan guerrillas.
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Many travelers are chasing what may be a modern-day version of an old human impulse â to behold an untrammeled frontier.
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Tourists bored with bungee jumping and other extreme holidays may soon be able to get their teeth into another challenge: a couple of weeks in a former communist detention camp in Croatia with hard labour thrown in.
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Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a private museum is rebuilding a 200-meter section close to Checkpoint Charlie, the famous Cold War border crossing, to satisfy tourists who flock to the site.
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In large swaths of Congo, many people rely on an increasingly dangerous railway system long past its prime.
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Fifteen years after the fall of the  Berlin Wall, a private museum is rebuilding a 200-meter section  close to Checkpoint Charlie, the famous Cold War border  crossing, to satisfy tourists who flock to the site.
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HRADEK NAD NISOU, Czech Republic -- For more than 60 years, this remote stretch of bottomland was one of the most closely guarded sectors of Central Europe.
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Fans of the dirty, noisy Trabant car - a symbol of the old East Germany - are to celebrate its 50th birthday.
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Using magnets to hold trains in the air so they can travel at speeds comparable to planes has long been a goal for making long-distance travel enjoyable.