Have you ever wanted to make the trains run on time? Or maybe just make the trains run at all? We have just the thing for you.
"[Y]ou don't have to be a member of the X-Men to get all telekinetic with mass transit," says Joseph Rose. That's because of the power in this animated GIF making the rounds on social media today.
Rose suggests that having this small vestige of power over trains, even if virtual, might be therapeutic for some transit riders, especially during Portland's stormy, delay-plagued week, or after Boston's Red Line malfeasance.
Read the full story: Mind-blowing GIF lets you change train's direction by just thinking it
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