Thrashy@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoWhoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their liveslemmy.worldimagemessage-square132fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageWhoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their liveslemmy.worldThrashy@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square132fedilink
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months 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-up0·3 months 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.