Conversely, no train has ever been speeding in a schools zone, jumped a curb and killed a bunch of kids.
Yet. There’s still more juice to squeeze in the exciting world of trains.
jumped a curb
I mean, they do that sometimes. Particularly in countries with poorly maintained tracks.
They don’t do it by the driver fixating on something on the side of the (rail)road and steering toward it/them
If anything it reads like the train with all of the kids was likely traveling below the speed limit.
Yeah, I wasn’t posting it to say I’m anti-train or something. It’s just a horrible, but interesting story.
Interesting disaster story but no one off the trains was injured, though school kids died
Do kids in european countries get as excited about trains given they are super common? I feel like my kids get excited because they rarely see trains, they’re kinda special.
Tractors are ultra common and yet kids go bonkers for them
Trains, Traktors, Excavators, Bicycles, streetcars, wheel loaders, trucks, dump trucks, street sweepers, garbage trucks…
Regardless of how common those are, my toddlers will loose their shit every single time.
Croatian here, and yes (at least speaking for myself).
Yes, my 4yo will point it out excitedly every time he sees a train.
There is always a first train and the same first reaction
Check this out: Children’s railway.
I think kids are always excited by new stuff, and if it’s big or complex stuff the excitement generally increases accordingly. Buses, trams, excavators, trains, planes, firetrucks, road rollers, cranes. And then as they get used to them the excitement either subsides, or it just keeps getting more and more specific.
So for a European kid who at some point starts traveling by train regularly, it either subsides quicker, or it has more of a chance to get specific, because they start noticing the differences between the trains they use, and possibly the tracks if they use multiple kinds. This eventually results in lots of train nerds among grown ups.
By the way, now I’m wondering, is the hobby of building and maintaining and running model trains on model tracks in a fixed installation at home common in the USA? I know at least three people who do that here in Switzerland, it’s not like sports or something, but for the large effort it still seems relatively common to me.
One colleague at work has all the train models ever used by Rhätische Bahn in his collection now. That’s a regional train company that only serves mountainous regions by way of narrow (1m) tracks in one corner of Switzerland, but it’s still a big collection.
Ironically, I think a lot of people expect the allure of “Oh wow, you have an F-150! What a beast! What an American icon! You are so big and strong.” Yet they’re so common now, it often gives a distorted inverse image.
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A rideshare is the name of app summoned taxis, like Uber.
The point is precisely that trains, trams and busses are infinitely more exciting than a plain car.
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teach em young, railfan makes for a happy life
My kid points out freight trains, but not the LRT, so what point is this trying to make?
We’re all still reeling from the plague that killed off every child except for yours.
my kid has told me he wishes to ride a city bus one day, and a train, and a plane, idk how he feels about boats though.
Your child yearns for the simple hobo life.
Sounds like your kid might like The Boxcar Children series
However, as a middle aged guy that took his first Waymo… I did point and say: “Holy shit, my first robotaxi!”
Absolutely Shameless
