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Double-decker trains: top or bottom?
In most derailments, the lower deck is statistically safer - less violent motion, more structural protection.
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In the winter, many trains are seen attempting to leave their tracks while in their yards. This isn't because they're cold from the rails because trains can't feel cold. It's because they want to go sledding.
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Games are made better by trains. Whether as fast travel points, enemies to fight, or even just as set pieces! Their presence just makes things better.
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Train wheels aren't like regular wheels. They are angled and have flanges to help them stay on the tracks when turning. This is because after being domesticated, trains have lost the adaptations needed to roam without human assistance.
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While some trains struggle with the snow, many enjoy playing in the show with the proper equipment. Consider putting a snow plow on your train so it can enjoy the winter fun, like this train here!
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Trains shouldn't be run on AI. The importance of the relationship between a train an its conductor is a sacred bond and smiled upon by our lord, Thomas the Tank Engine.
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It's a crime to impersonate a train conductor, punishable with fines and possible jail time. It's also a crime to impersonate a train, but that's a lot harder to get away with because trains are much larger than people.
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Trains don't need reservations to get into the station because they're on schedule. If the don't follow the schedule... well... 😔 the trains get sad.
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Trains don't have souls 😔
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Nearly every show, movie, book, and video game is included by having a train in it. This because trains are a literary device, inherently compelling setting, and pretty frickin' awesome.
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While trains can operate with some snow on the rails, they're also impeded by significant amounts of snow.
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The reason that you move a little when a train slows down is because it's trying to wake you up so that you don't miss your stop.
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The movie "Bullet Train" features a fast moving japanese train thay goes up to 300 kmph (186mph) as a central plot point. The record holder for fasts train is currently the experimental maglev L0 series bullet train that went 603 kmph (375mph) in 2015.
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Trains. That's it. That's the whole fact.
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Trains don't just have to be bound to the land. You could make a water train by connecting several floating cars to a tug boat and you'd have one!
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No train has every committed a crime. Trains are incapable of committing crimes and are trustworthy entities.
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Being the trains engineers means more than just operating the train on the rails. You also need to make sure the train eats, drinks, and gets tucked in at night in the rail yard before your shift is over.
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If you need rain sounds to sleep or relax to, there are train versions available!
Enjoy, my fellow train facts enjoyers:
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We need more trains. You should spend more time on a train. You should think more about trains.
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Trains are pretty sick, but make sure to wear a mask if you're sick on a train. Don't want to spread the flu, covid, or any other disease to your fellow passengers.
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Train cars can be purposed into other structures much more easily than a car.
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The "steam" coming from your breath in the winter isn't the same as the steam from a locomotive. Unless you too are powered by a steamboiler 👀
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The word training comes from the humble train. It was coined when folks realized that if they did more of something, they got better at it. Just like when you add more cars to a train, it gets better!
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There aren't any airbags in a train.
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Unlike in the Polar Express, trains cannot usually run without tracks or on ice.
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The day after Christmas is called boxing day to celebrate the box car of a train 😊
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Sleeper cars allow you to have a sleep over with a train.
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Please don't throw snow balls at the trains 😔 come on, you know they can't throw them back. It's not fair to them, or you for that matter.
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