A cool steam train revival in Wales.

[Dinner]

I have to admit I have a soft spot for trains especially these old 19th century ones so it is great to see the old steam trains getting refurbished and being put back to good use even if it is just to offer tourists a chance to experience how people traveled 130 years ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-24085592

[Sava]

[dannubis]

was

[Sava]

Steam locomotives seem really inefficient.

[Dinner]

Yeah, but there is a certain romance to them. They also have a place in pop culture; just look how popular scenes from "the Hogwarts Express" was such a popular part of the Harry Potter films. People just seem to like them as a symbol of simpler times.

[Sava]

Yeah, but there is a certain romance to them. They also have a place in pop culture; just look how popular scenes from "the Hogwarts Express" was such a popular part of the Harry Potter films. People just seem to like them as a symbol of simpler times.

Simpler? You mean, when children worked in the coal mines so that those locomotives could run?

You know who romanticizes the past? Nazis.

[BlackCat]

Steam locomotives seem really inefficient.

Yeah, they probably are, but they ruled the world for at least a century, so you can't ignore them.

Besides that, my dad collected steam locomotives (bought two and rented a third) and it actually an interesting experience to pull a leaver and 50 tons start to move.

[Sava]

Yeah, they probably are, but they ruled the world for at least a century, so you can't ignore them.

Sure I can. See. I'm doing it right now.

[regexcellent]

Wales: Birthplace of the railways!

Home of the first ever Steam locomotive to run on rails and the first place in the world to carry passengers by railway commercially...

Thanks, Oerdin, for reminding me why my country is so ****ing awesome!!!

I'm pretty certain the first steam railroad trains to run regular routes were in the US.

Amusingly, despite the supposed dominance of trains in Europe, the United States hauls a greater proportion of freight by rail than Europe does. However, we transport more passengers by road and air. Which makes way more sense, since passengers are light and need to get places fast and freight is heavy and doesn't care (much) how long it takes to get there. So moving passengers by rail is pretty much just ass-backwards.

[BlackCat]

Sure I can. See. I'm doing it right now.

Nah, if you really wanted to ignore them, you wuldn't have answered, so you don't ignore them.

[dannubis]

I'm pretty certain the first steam railroad trains to run regular routes were in the US.

Amusingly, despite the supposed dominance of trains in Europe, the United States hauls a greater proportion of freight by rail than Europe does. However, we transport more passengers by road and air. Which makes way more sense, since passengers are light and need to get places fast and freight is heavy and doesn't care (much) how long it takes to get there. So moving passengers by rail is pretty much just ass-backwards.

Dumb **** as usual.

[Sava]

Nah, if you really wanted to ignore them, you wuldn't have answered, so you don't ignore them.

Wrong.

I'm actively ignoring them now. If I was passively ignoring, I wouldn't post. But what fun would that be?

[Patroklos]

I have to admit I have a soft spot for trains especially these old 19th century ones so it is great to see the old steam trains getting refurbished and being put back to good use even if it is just to offer tourists a chance to experience how people traveled 130 years ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-24085592

All I see is the beginning of nature's slow agonizing death

[Aeson]

We are able to post to the internet due to work done by steam engines. Steam (not the intrusive game platform though ... )

[Sava]

Steam (the game platform) hate is so 2004