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
@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 Brașov in 1891, but this was the reason it was gradually scrapped until 1960.
@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.
@utzer@social.yl.ms wrote:
but having to walk through knee deep horse shit probably wasn’t great either. 😜
Yeah, I know horse manure crisis could have been a thing in more developed cities. But these steam powered trams were also more noisy than a regular horse-pulled one.
Anyway, in the end it’s great that we have electric transit instead.
Just imagine standing at a Tram stop and hearing Locomotive chugging right at you. That be so cool!
@Mr_Mofu and smelling its smoke next to the exhaust of the cars, haha (jk).
But yea, indeed 😁
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…
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
