• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    2 months ago

    Electric trains actually predate diesel, noted as far back as the 30s. Subways kind of needed something that didn’t emit smoke and fumes

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      2 months ago

      Volk’s electric railway, 1883. Only a narrow gague tourist type thing but still technically a passenger railway.