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

  • petrescatraian@libranet.de
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    11 months ago

    @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.

    • utzer@social.yl.ms
      2·
      11 months ago

      @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.

      @Mr_Mofu

      • petrescatraian@libranet.de
        1·
        11 months ago

        @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.

        @Mr_Mofu