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chorus @nota@chaos.social
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It's called the Corradia LINT because seeing it roll in when you're waiting for your train is a pretty similar emotional experience to finding some dirt in your pocket
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chorus @nota@chaos.social
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Why would you name your train that though. To me it just invokes "this is the best we could scrounge up". Which is kinda fitting, but still.
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chorus @nota@chaos.social
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the story of the LINT It's the late 90s in Germany, the "economic miracle" has ended, neoliberalism and austerity is in full swing again and DB is facing imminent privatization. Maintenance has been postponed to the fullest extent to cook the books and a drive-to-scrap policy has been implemented on some rolling stock. Things are dire but they just need to hold on a few more years until a sale, which never comes. But DB urgently needs some new diesel regional trains. And it needs them cheap.
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chorus @nota@chaos.social
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the story of the LINT LHB (now Alstom) duly complies by stamping some sheet metal into the shape of a train putting a truck engine in it. Yeah sure the single glazed windows rattle on every bump and the AC can't keep up but we don't have money for that. Innovation. Built for an era of austerity and privatization, it's "sorry, you can't have nice things anymore" embodied as an train, a haunting from the 90s that you feel every second.
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender 🔜 eth0 @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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poor man's lint @nota explains why it looks so bad and still does
the fucking square windows lmao
in Poland we have a whole family from Pesa, models 214Mx and 218Mx, and partially also 219M, which you could pretty much describe as poor man's LINT. In early 2000s Pesa was a newcomer to building new trains, and everyone demanded light diesel rail vehicles right here, right now, and so they created the first 214M out of an 120A coach, and both series really look like a poor man's LINT lmao. there were two other companies that tried to come up with something but their products weren't even using proper bogies, and were so unreliable, both of them went out of business because of the unreliability and the fact that Pesa simply outsold them. however they also were unreliable, and almost went out of business years later themselves because of their next generation vehicles and not delivering reliable stuff on time, let's just say they were a bit overambitious with what their workforce could actually do
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