Thrashy@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoWhoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their liveslemmy.worldimagemessage-square137fedilinkarrow-up1768arrow-down112
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minus-squareMonkderViertelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59·edit-24 months agoWait til they learn about twin story trains. Twice the capacity! Edit: And the first gen, a bit less comfortable tho but more reliable.
minus-squareRuxias@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·4 months agoWOW, what will the incredible Elon come up with next!? Dude comes up with all the great stuff we should have invented like ~50-100 years ago. /s
minus-squaremoitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·edit-24 months agoIt doesn’t double the capacity. It’s more a 30% increase. And, double-deckers are actually old. They date from the 19th century. In 1855, the Chemin de fer de l’Ouest introduced double-deckers on suburban lines of Paris. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiture_Ouest_à_impériale Modern double-deckers date from the 1930s, with the Voiture à étage Etat: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiture_à_étage_État
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minus-squareMonkderViertelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 months agoIf i remember right, they had multiple issues (forgot accessibility for one) and defects at first too. Though i quite like them. edit: it was Bombardier? https://www.nau.ch/news/schweiz/sbb-verargert-uber-verzogerungen-bei-bombardier-65462450 https://www.bluewin.ch/de/news/schweiz/alle-neuen-doppelstoecker-der-sbb-muessen-zurueck-in-die-werkstatt-309400.html https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/oev/895319546-so-leiden-die-lokfuehrer-unter-den-neuen-sbb-pannen-doppelstoecker
minus-squareSkull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 months agodeleted by creator
Wait til they learn about twin story trains. Twice the capacity!
Edit: And the first gen, a bit less comfortable tho but more reliable.
WOW, what will the incredible Elon come up with next!? Dude comes up with all the great stuff we should have invented like ~50-100 years ago.
/s
It doesn’t double the capacity. It’s more a 30% increase. And, double-deckers are actually old. They date from the 19th century. In 1855, the Chemin de fer de l’Ouest introduced double-deckers on suburban lines of Paris.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiture_Ouest_à_impériale
Modern double-deckers date from the 1930s, with the Voiture à étage Etat:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiture_à_étage_État
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If i remember right, they had multiple issues (forgot accessibility for one) and defects at first too. Though i quite like them.
edit: it was Bombardier?
https://www.nau.ch/news/schweiz/sbb-verargert-uber-verzogerungen-bei-bombardier-65462450
https://www.bluewin.ch/de/news/schweiz/alle-neuen-doppelstoecker-der-sbb-muessen-zurueck-in-die-werkstatt-309400.html
https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/oev/895319546-so-leiden-die-lokfuehrer-unter-den-neuen-sbb-pannen-doppelstoecker
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