Thrashy@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoWhoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their liveslemmy.worldimagemessage-square138fedilinkarrow-up1799arrow-down115
arrow-up1784arrow-down1imageWhoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their liveslemmy.worldThrashy@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square138fedilink
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·12 days agoElectric trains actually predate diesel, noted as far back as the 30s. Subways kind of needed something that didn’t emit smoke and fumes
minus-squareoo1@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 days agoVolk’s electric railway, 1883. Only a narrow gague tourist type thing but still technically a passenger railway.
Electric trains actually predate diesel, noted as far back as the 30s. Subways kind of needed something that didn’t emit smoke and fumes
Volk’s electric railway, 1883. Only a narrow gague tourist type thing but still technically a passenger railway.