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I'm sure they had one of those "Oh..." moments when they realized there was something that didn't quite work out.
by astrodust 12y ago
I'm sure they had one of those "Oh..." moments when they realized there was something that didn't quite work out.
- aragot 12y agoThere are a few moments in recent history where I wish I had been. This is one of them, along with the day after the 2007 iPhone keynote in the Android 1 offices, and when the French company realized they'd built their trains 1cm too wide for a thousand platforms [1]. [1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-rail-operator-orders-hundreds-of-new-trains-too-big-for-platforms-9412274.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/french-rail-o...
- brazzy 12y agoActually, I'm pretty sure that this was planned and budgeted for very early in the project. This is highly specialized gear that you cannot just build smaller, let alone shop around for a maker closer to you.