About this train

Nothing here is a recording. The country is grown as you go from a seed: wells with their long sweeps on the plain, the Ploiești refineries, vineyards in Vrancea, poplars along the Siret, snow and fir forest in Bucovina, a painted monastery on a hill. The sun comes up at the minute it really rises over Suceava on 1 March, from where the train is and which way the line is heading.

The wheels strike each rail joint once per axle, two bogies to a car, so the ta-dam ta-dam follows the actual speed. The tea is a sloshing liquid with its own natural frequency (about 3.7 Hz for a tea glass), the glass rattles in its metal holder, and the car rolls on its springs through the curves. Every sound is synthesised in the browser.

Keys

Space

pause, continue

← → ↑ ↓

look along the train (or drag)

1–5, + −

speed, from real pace to ×16

N, P

next, previous station

W

lower or raise the window

L

ceiling light, night light, dark

C

curtain

T

stir the tea

B

your ticket

M

sound