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These like their Full Train counterparts, had the main Steam Engine and passenger carriages separated, making for a fascinating Visual unlike any Electric Trams you can find Nowadays. Yet today they have been all but entirely Forgotten

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[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

@Mr_Mofu Wow, fascinating indeed, but the pollution must have been on an abysmal level had the cities used these extensively. No wonder horse-pulled trams were actually more popular back in the day before electrification 😁

I read that we had one in BraΘ™ov in 1891, but this was the reason it was gradually scrapped until 1960.

[–] Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just imagine standing at a Tram stop and hearing Locomotive chugging right at you. That be so cool!

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 7 months ago

@Mr_Mofu and smelling its smoke next to the exhaust of the cars, haha (jk).

But yea, indeed 😁

[–] utzer@social.yl.ms 1 points 7 months ago

@petrescatraian but having to walk through knee deep horse shit probably wasn't great either. 😜

I think cities were very polluted for a long time, and the tram might not have contributed to too much of the polution.

@Mr_Mofu

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is really cool! Do you know more about the vehicle pictured? It looks like it's a museum train brought out for some event. I wonder where they stored the coal...

[–] Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not sure about this ones origines. But yeah most likely a Museum Tram out for a ride! Not sure about where the coal might be stored. Couldn't find anything on that

It's the Dampftram in Bern Switzerland. https://Dampftram.ch