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Finnish trains are very tall! 🇫🇮🚂 (loops.video)

submitted 3 weeks ago by m_f@midwest.social to c/loops@midwest.social

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[–] m_f@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Those are good questions. Crossposted over to !trains@midwest.social to see if anyone over there has answers. The main advantage of tall trains that I know of is the obvious one, you can fit more people into a single car. The Amtrak cars I've ridden in in the US are also quite tall. We generally don't have to worry about banking or tunnels in the midwest, it's very flat here.

Interestingly, in the US Amtrak is often used by the Amish to get around. That seemed odd to me given their aversion to technology, but what I heard is that it's not that they're supposed to completely reject technology, it's that they're supposed to use the lowest practical form of technology for a given task. If you're traveling cross-country, I guess that means you take the train.