- cross-posted to:
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- urbanism@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- trains@lemmy.ml
- urbanism@hexbear.net
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Ah, is the above picture misinformation?
I was kinda thinking the top photo looks like it’s from the 1800s, not 26 years ago. Am I on the right track? (Pun intended)
no, i think it is real and the person who made this report just assumed that it wasn’t.
my cross-post of it includes additional information i found while looking in to it.
This reminds me of my trip to northern Honshu in Japan. I took the Shinkansen (bullet train) which was so smooth and quiet you literally had to look out the window to even realize you were moving. But then we switched to an old clunker that was shaking around and belching smoke and working so hard just to pull out of the station.
And the on-board experience was a huge contrast as well. The Shinkansen was full of people in suits minding their own business and it was clean and space-age-looking. The other train had a lived-in look and was full of chatty country folk who started asking me all sorts of questions and laughing because we could barely understand each other. My Japanese is a little iffy and they had this country drawl that wasn’t helping. But I enjoyed both trains for different reasons.
That sounds like a super fun experience
What a glow up
Were they still rocking steam engine trains in the 90s?
The top image literally only exists in this context combined with the bottom image lol
https://tineye.com/search/7777615014d53bcce72888927f25c51729e67149?sort=score&order=desc&page=1
Ah google finds some more stuff:
https://xcancel.com/globaltimesnews/status/1069894122373296129
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:SY1721_at_Tangshan_Works.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Railways_SYDefinitely a chinese locomotive and it was built up until 1999
the driver’s name is Han Junjia. here is an interview with him: https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202012/28/WS5fe93034a31024ad0ba9ed9b.html
there are more photos of him in other trains here: http://en.people.cn/n3/2018/1205/c90000-9525433.html
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Fake. The first one is from Mexico.
Your joke flew over many people’s head but not mine, for I am high as you are
Sorry, joke was genuinely funny but I was too stoned
With Chinese characters on one of the carriages?
It’s about the sepia tone
I reckon I’m too old for the current internet. Yesterday I noticed one of my other meme references was over 10 years old.
We’re too hip for the future we landed in
In my defense, I’m colorblind. So details like that just wash over me
Oh… yea. Good joke 😆
If you have a good source I will delete it
Ohhhhhhhh, fuck
It’s a joke. I thought it’s super obvious…
Yeah that ones on me tbh, was a little too stoned
Show me the proof or you’re not stoned.
