New York Public Library's Fancy New 'Book Train' Looks Pretty Magical

SO impressive.

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The New York Public Library revealed on Wednesday its spending about $2.6 million on a new project. But it’s not a new room, wing or small building. It’s a super-fancy train that will deliver books and materials from the depths of the institution’s archive.

The new conveyer system consists of a 950-foot track and 24 individual red cars that run on rails (basically a train) that can “seamlessly transition from horizontal to vertical motion.”

You can watch the train’s impressive handling skills in the video below from DNA Info, ahead of its launch at the start of October.

The cars can hold up to 30 pounds of material. They pick up items from the library’s stacks, which can hold up to four million research volumes, and deliver them to library staff, who will then provide the materials to researchers for use in the library.

The book train is not the only enhancement from the NYPL this year. The institution released 300,000 books on an app called SimplyE in August. It’s full steam ahead on the library innovation train.

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