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Money train?

The inspection vehicles are fucking terrifying. It's like seeing a sunrise coming through a tunnel.

The snow-blower trains on the lines that run outside, however, are awesome. A huge propeller-like turbine thing on the front, roaring along, sweeping the snow off the tracks. Very cool to see.



Back in the token days, they used to collect the toll box fares the same way the collect the station garbage. Hence "money train". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_train

Side note, on a desperate night have you ever found yourself wondering "maybe I can bribe the orange vest dude to let me ride the trash train because waiting here sucks."


> Side note, on a desperate night have you ever found yourself wondering "maybe I can bribe the orange vest dude to let me ride the trash train because waiting here sucks."

Never.

But I've definitely considered just hopping into an empty bin, and seeing how far it'd take me.




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