I am currently riding a old diesel train from the 50's on a herritage railroad through the dark Swedish landscape of an early autumn evening - AMA!
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Do you often ride on trains?
Also, how would you describe the sound it makes on the tracks?
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How warm is it? (Ig it’s summer if it were winter would it be cold?)
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How warm is it? (Ig it’s summer if it were winter would it be cold?)
I am back home now, it was about 16c with a bit of windchill.
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Do you often ride on trains?
Also, how would you describe the sound it makes on the tracks?
- Yes, though mostly on the beautiful Stockholm metro.
- ch-ch ch-cha, ch-ch ch-cha
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What is the heritage railroad environment like in Sweden? Are these being run by the actual railroad owners, or by private groups over the railroads' tracks?
Most herritage railroads has their own tracks, but there are herritage train societies that own spaces for locomotives and cars, but no track, and they arrange trips on the public tracks, this has allowed us to even have preserved electrical trains and locomotives, several of which are fitted with ATC to allow them to run all over Sweden.
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Those trains were blatantly copied by another Swedish company, and then that one was again blatantly copied by a Finnish company, leading to the models Dm6 and Dm7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_Class_Dm7
Zero royalties paid!
Well, SJ, the government operator started with the Y6 family of DMUs for standard, 1435mm, track gauge, these were built by AJS, Hägglunds, Kalmar verkstad and Märstaverken.
Then Hilding Carlsson built the Yp variant (for narrow gauge 891mm) of the Y6 family.
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What products do you shave with?
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What products do you shave with?
Bic razor!
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Talk about good timing!
I just had the chance to take some photos and my Lumix AF decided to work!
Woooah, what a beauty, I love old vehicles.
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Woooah, what a beauty, I love old vehicles.
This model of diesel multiple unit train was an old staple across the old narrow guage (891mm) train lines in Sweden.
Then when most of the lines were closed, these DMUs became like a staple train for herritage railroads.
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Are you sure it isn't an old pirate ship from the 1800s?
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How much was your ticket to ride?
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see any white people?
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see any white people?
This is Sweden, so yes.
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How much was your ticket to ride?
I am a member of the railroad, so free
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Are you sure it isn't an old pirate ship from the 1800s?
Quite sure
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This model of diesel multiple unit train was an old staple across the old narrow guage (891mm) train lines in Sweden.
Then when most of the lines were closed, these DMUs became like a staple train for herritage railroads.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Cool fact, thanks for sharing!
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Have you ever done, like.....you know...butt stuff?
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Thinking of going to Sweden, anything I should know, do, learn, bring etc before I come?
Edit: I'm American and don't know Swedish. I am also a fan of food, so any swedish cuisine or multicultural stuff is nice.
Edit: related question, how is public transport like in Sweden and going across surrounding countries nearby?
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Well, SJ, the government operator started with the Y6 family of DMUs for standard, 1435mm, track gauge, these were built by AJS, Hägglunds, Kalmar verkstad and Märstaverken.
Then Hilding Carlsson built the Yp variant (for narrow gauge 891mm) of the Y6 family.
...and then came Valmet with its Dm6.
And nobody paid anything for the intellectual property. The history of these railbuses is fascinating in how it's a chain of betrayals.
