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FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to traingang@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago

Steam Locomotives are Best Locomotives

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Steam Locomotives are Best Locomotives

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FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.net to traingang@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 months ago
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    Steam trains fuck up the tracks, starts fires and pollutes like hell… That’s just extra character! They go Choo Choo and have cool exterior moving pistony-wheely parts!

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      Counterpoint: Look at this locomotive hauling freight up a hill like God intended

      Second Counterpoint: electric-steam locomotives exist and every train should be pulled by one

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        Remembering an old model train layout that had steam trains powered by third rail, we should do the worst and most dangerous and also coolest electrification scheme possible and do this in real life

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          Hell yea, overhead wires are for cowards and revisionists, every railway should be upscaled O scale rail

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      Everyone knows that steam trains are more authentic than electric trains, in the same way that vinyl records are more authentic than CDs

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