@timrichards So it's a train that works like a bus but it's a train? That guy in the front is the driver? Is there a locomotive in the back or is there an engine underneath the car? Whatever it is I wish we had one here.
@eugeneparnell This one's from the 1970s, they called it a railmotor - basically it has diesel engines at each end of the two-carriage train (I think that's right). Old-school but v good-looking.
@timrichards that's really cool. You know a lot of American cities used to have a streetcar system that went all over. Never as elegant as your machine -- they fell out of favor as automobiles got more common-- they ripped them all up in the 1950s. We could have had cool things like that. But no, the car companies and petroleum companies had other ideas.
@eugeneparnell I live in Melbourne, which was unusual in not ripping out streetcars/trams after WWII - we have the largest tram network in the world now. They are very useful. And kinda cool.
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