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Probably because I live in Europe, but for me the Nort American trains are ugly as hell.
by stockerta 3y ago
Probably because I live in Europe, but for me the Nort American trains are ugly as hell.
- Lammy 3y agoThe earlier E- and F-units were much more conventionally attractive, especially in trains with a single "A" cab unit combined with cabless "B" units to form a sleek contiguous train: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_E-unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_E-unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_F-unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_F-unit I agree that it does seem like the newer boxy aesthetic is trying to make a statement that train travel is for industrial goods only, not for people. Just why The Establishment would want to discourage cheap and easily-accessible passenger train travel in the late '60s and early '70s is left as an exercise for the reader: https://goldenstatswarrior.substack.com/p/the-great-migration-of-african-americans https://goldenstatswarrior.substack.com/p/the-great-migratio...