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What is it about guys and trains? I reflexively upvoted before even reading the article, and after reading the article, I realize it is a pretty standard narrow gauge railroad. Don’t care! Would vote again if I could!
I don't think this is restricted to the male population tbh
What is it about guys and trains? I reflexively upvoted before even reading the article, and after reading the article, I realize it is a pretty standard narrow gauge railroad. Don’t care! Would vote again if I could!
I think it's nerds and trains, rather than guys and trains. I know at least one woman who is pretty excited about trains too, and she is a colossal dork. EDIT: and what it is about nerds and trains is that trains are wicked sweet .
Rephrasing to "nerds" doesn't change anything.
What is it about guys and trains? I reflexively upvoted before even reading the article, and after reading the article, I realize it is a pretty standard narrow gauge railroad. Don’t care! Would vote again if I could!
I think it's nerds and trains, rather than guys and trains. I know at least one woman who is pretty excited about trains too, and she is a colossal dork. EDIT: and what it is about nerds and trains is that trains are wicked sweet .
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it's nerds and trains, rather than guys and trains. I know at least one woman who is pretty excited about trains too, and she is a colossal dork. EDIT: and what it is about nerds and trains is that trains are wicked sweet .
The question is why is the connection between men and trains relatively strong? OP never implied liking trains was restricted to men. Rephrasing to "nerds" doesn't change anything.
This reminds me of the Ooty toy train. Despite the name, it's not a toy, but a meter gauge train that goes between the plains and the hill station of Ooty / Udhagamandalam, in Tamil Nadu, a state in South India. Moves quite slowly. Good fun riding it. I've been on it years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilgiri_Mountain_Railway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_railway Images of it: https://www.google.co.in/sear…
Neral -> Matheran.
Kalka -> Shimla.
Siliguri -> Darjeeling
Can't this inspire the future of automated driving? Paint strips on the freeway optimized for visual-recognition systems, to serve as super cheap railway tracks. Super cheap because painted strips are far cheaper than laying tracks, and they would lower the cost of the visual recognition systems in cars. These automated driving sections would satisfy my principal pain point with driving, which is long commutes or dri…
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The question is why is the connection between men and trains relatively strong? OP never implied liking trains was restricted to men. Rephrasing to "nerds" doesn't change anything.
Trains are a complicated problem space where a lot of impressive large-scale and small-scale engineering has been done over the course more than a century, but where you can still explain how stuff actually works at the layperson level. On top of that a fair amount of laypeople will interact with and even depend on a train on a fairly regular basis, in a way that is not necessarily true of other problem spaces; railr…
Cars, space travel, boats, aircraft, all manner of transportation has been romanticized as much or even more than trains.
I'm german but I've never ever heard of neither the island, nor the trains. How remarkable!
German north is really very different from German south.
What is it about guys and trains? I reflexively upvoted before even reading the article, and after reading the article, I realize it is a pretty standard narrow gauge railroad. Don’t care! Would vote again if I could!
Could it be German and trains? I haven't known a country that is so into trains besides Germany. Actually, engineering in general is pretty high all the German guy's interest.
My uncle is actually a tiny train enthusiast. He bought really old schematics for a full-size steam powered locomotive and scaled them down, machining every little piece from blocks of metal.
He has been working on it for 20+ years; he originally planned for his grandchildren to get to play with it but they're all adults now. Maybe it will be ready in time for his great grandchildren.