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[–] 46 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (8 children)

Now that's a nice tram!

Honestly real jealous of how nice the track is, we got something like this instead. Really over engineered tbh with the overhead cables, poles, and fences.

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Still does the same job at the end of the day, but...

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (3 children)

    What's this inbetween the rails? You don't just put gravel there?

    Also, this seems to be two differen't usecases. OP's is in the street (we call that Tram here, often in cities) while yours is beside it (light train).

    Edit: right, a gear train, yet another usecase. Answers the question about gravel.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago*

    OP's is in the street (we call that Tram here, often in cities) while yours is beside it (light train).

    Unless you're New South Wales government, in which case you call your Sydney trams "light rail" because you don't want to admit that Melbourne was right all along to keep its trams instead of ripping up all the tracks because "everyone has cars now". Sydney used to have one of the biggest tram networks in the world until 1961. That was over two decades before I was born but I'm still mad about it.

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