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Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows. (lemmy.world)

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I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Close enough I think: Just watched the new mission impossible dead reckoning. Pretty sure no one uses coal trains anymore.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

As in coal-powered steam trains? There's a moderate number in tourist service around the world.

Diesel or electric trains carrying coal are still very common.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

There's a coal train still in use in my hometown. It's a tourist thing, but still.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Steam locomotives are still used on tourist and heritage railways, just not in revenue service anymore. (An exception being a single railway in Bosnia that still uses WW2-era German steam locomotives.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Hyce, who works at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden (which is a heritage railroad with restored steam locomotives) got to drive on of them while visiting family in Bosnia

There are uncommon instances of revenue freight being hauled by steam such as during a recent dispute between different agencies in Germany or the Everett railroad in Pennsylvania apparently does have some revenue service despite primarily being a tourist railroad and has on occasion used steam to switch out it's revenue customers

Or for a similar but entirely different example, the Iowa Traction Railroad uses almost exclusively century old electric locomotives all built in the 1910s and 1920s. You can see here one of their electric locomotives posing with a much newer locomotive:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I watch Hyce all the time! Glad to see another fan of him on here. Thank you for the vids you sent.