Comment on Whoever wrote this headline has never encountered a passenger train before in their lives
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 months agoElectric trains actually predate diesel, noted as far back as the 30s. Subways kind of needed something that didn’t emit smoke and fumes
oo1@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Volk’s electric railway, 1883. Only a narrow gague tourist type thing but still technically a passenger railway.