@Thrashy@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agoWhoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their liveslemmy.worldimagemessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1633arrow-down112
arrow-up1621arrow-down1imageWhoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their liveslemmy.world@Thrashy@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months agomessage-square66fedilink
minus-square@MonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish49•edit-29 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-square@Ruxias@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish21•9 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-square@moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglish12•edit-29 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
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