The Rail Revolution That Never Was

[@AdamSomething]

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[@patrikmodrovsky1842]

how would you rate Slovak trains compared to Czech?

[@gary851]

i know that rail is your fetish but it cant solve global transportation problems alone.

[@dasstigma]

Much smaller... Than Switzerland? 🤨

[@marshallthedalmatian2439]

I cannot watch your videos without Oreos pls help

[@micklenier6152]

love the Lazerpig music theming intro

[@bananen1war2]

No pods = no innovation. Also no fancy animated video, it was doomed from the start.

[@silphv]

you can't even park your truck on them

[@lvo1004]

Also no connection with crypto or musk, doomed indeed 😋

[@KompleksnyeChisla]

They should've also added AI and Blockchain into that.

[@Frenzy0212]

What were they thinking? No chance that they'll ever find an arab investor that way.

[@yadakakadu]

@@Frenzy0212 It's actually because orbán didn't find one that is morally corrupt enough.

[@dogeboi1804]

Hungary realized they were about to do something good and efficient, so they were like "hold on, hold on, that's very un-hungarian of us, lets fuck it up"

[@slevinchannel7589]

Fyi, if you like Adam-Something and specifiically his 'Critciism of Nitwit-Actions' you may like the video i just watched: 'Why Western Designs Fail in Developed Countrys' by 'Design Theory''

[@mmmhorsesteaks]

Like they have a minimum shittiness quotum or something. Like clockwork.

[@hueanao]

@@slevinchannel7589 KZbin's algorithm is pushing this video HARD to me. Is it any good? Should I feed the algorithm with my click?

[@alexursu4403]

Why does this have to be the bonding activity between Hungary and Romania ?

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@hueanao The video we're under? Yeah, it's good, though i find it rather average compared to his better videos. I'd recommend this channel a LOT but this video not so much Maybe try his Dubai-Video

[@AbsoluteAmoeba]

The words “Hungary” and “Revolution” are generally not something people would associate with trains… until now!

[@jamesjross]

Making the trains run on time is something we can link the past with current Hungarian political situation. Look for Hugo boss uniforms next,

[@nothereandthereanywhere]

Indeed... More like 'hungry for revolution'!

[@gamlaman]

It's not helped by how fucking many Hungarian revolutions there are. Starting a revolution against the foreign dominators and losing heroically is kind of the bread and butter of Hungarian history. Well, that and being on the wrong side of wars, then getting absolutely fucked for it.

[@laurencefraser]

@@gamlaman pretty sure that if you lose it's just a revolt, rather than a revolution.

[@Oscar_the_fascist_slayer]

Really a shame Hungary kept losing their revolutions. 1848 and 1956 to be specific.

[@gb4206]

Babe wake up the conductor is ranting about his home country again

[@george.vasilev.reyner1916]

LOL 😂

[@ConsultingHumor]

Shit I commented this 15min too late

[@DiegoSanchez-gb4xp]

You can only have Adam either ranting about Mobility and Urbainistic Problems, Rich People, or the Right. Nothing else

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

*1 of 2. This is how you always need to vote:* We must fully criticize and _always vote_ *against* (& less authoritarian than) both the Republican *and* Democratic Parties- including *Kamala Harris,* AOC, all of the squad, Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, Mark Pocan, the justice democrats, & all other democrats. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real progressives will never be Democratic Members or Democratic loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Republican member or loyalist either. If no candidates for a position fit that bill: -Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person; -Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies: Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge. *2 of 2. This is how you always need to vote:* We must fully criticize and _always vote_ *against* (& less authoritarian than) both the Democratic *and* Republican Parties- including *Trump,* Vivek Ramaswamy, Rand Paul (He’s _no_ Ron Paul), Thomas Massie, Warren Davidson, Ron Johnson, and all other Republicans. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real libertarians will never be Republicans or Republican loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Democratic member or loyalist either. If no candidates for a position fit that bill: -Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person; -Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies: Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

All! Read the voting reply above. Extremely important info on how you need to vote.

[@renard_the_one]

Fun fact, my dad used to work during the 90's and 00's in Budapest-Nyugati, and someone finding themselves sober on a monday morning was imposibble because im not joking EVERYONE WAS A FUCKING ALCOHOLIC

[@norberthorvath807]

...still is....😂😂

[@BestPrezz]

...including your dad?

[@Eligha_]

can't imagine living in the 91s without alcoholism tbh

[@Robomandude]

That is why it was so miraculous that somebody did find themselves sober on that Monday morning.

[@osasunaitor]

Here in Spain train drivers used to hang their wine bag (bota) from the outside mirror to keep it fresh during the trip. Yes they were alcoholics too. I guess it was the only way to keep up with the endless working days and terrible conditions back then.

[@istimagyar53]

In Hungary the goverment won't spend money on railway, because it's "too expensive", even though they spend far more on highways and media propaganda. The lack of funding got so bad, that we still use 47 years old beaters.

[@ThorTyrker]

They should just let private companies get in and compete free market style

[@istimagyar53]

@@ThorTyrker Funelly enough that would be the prime minister and his friends.

[@ilor114]

@@istimagyar53more funnily we had a succesful cargo railway company and the government sold it more than 10 years ago. And of course Hungary doesn’t have any money, but we bought back the Budapest Airport for 3.1 billion euros, while the whole Hungarian public transports yearly budget is 1.5 billion euros.

[@istimagyar53]

@@ilor114 I didn't even know about that, thanks for the info.

[@gaborfranko3673]

Most of the money whats not in pockets, in propaganda

[@TsukiShimizu]

Austrian here - yes, the Railjets are damn nice, but the interior can be a bit dark, and there is one dark horse with our pinnacle of current rail transportation - it's called 'the german corner'. As soon as any train passes over the border it's magically hit with at least 10 minutes delay. Or 100 minutes, you never know with anything that touches the DB rails.

[@austriankangaroo]

i hope the railjet refurbishment will give them nicer interiors

[@backgroundkiller]

Sorry Guys, we really would like to improve the DB, but instead of giving the starting pistol for a sprint, the conservative and neolib parties will shoot the DB in the leg and then say "see, my BMW is faster!" It's so wonderfully fast and convenient when you are on the few routes where the ICE doesn't have to share tracks, but everything else makes me want to ragequit. By sheer luck tho, I commute via trains in one part of Germany where the punctuality is above standard

[@marcbfrankfurt3952]

Germany here….. Sorry ❤

[@ramtadam1469]

German Siemens Mobilty employee here: we are more than happy if you are happy with our products. 😊

[@MrPapamaci88]

Here's a Hungarian gag about our railway system: *Dear passengers! The Budapest-Szeged Intercity train will be about 3 hours late because the passengers are pushing it too slowly!* Now here's some additional context if you have time to read: Why is the Hungarian railway system as crappy as it is? The lines were laid down before the country was carved up by the Trianon treaty, before the treaty the system was extremely efficient, concentric and made a lot of sense, THEN the treaty happened, a lot of lines bisected orders, whole rail lines had to be decommissioned, etc. Redoing it fully so the network would make more sense was infeasibly expensive and the country was left with a railway network that made no sense in many cases, like once I had to travel up North from the middle of the country almost to the capital just so I could go back South to my home town, basically making a 1-1.5 hour trip into a 3-4 hours one. Because of the previous issue, investment into the network fell to the wayside, then due to slim to no maintenance, issues started to pile up, whilst the network was modernized to a degree, it was never corrected nor properly maintained, the rails are crap nearly everywhere to this day, they rather tell railway conductors to slow down to 10 km/h for a kilometer or two instead of fixing a warped section of rail and they leave it like that for decades before fixing anything, that sort of deal. Ganz and MÁVAG were competent companies and Hungarians still have a lot of incredibly competent people numbering amongst them, most of them since left the country for better paying jobs abroad or just to escape the political BS. In the meantime the government is still short-sighted, greedy and corrupt as it ever was, even in the socialist era things were functional all things considering (since the Soviets were actually keeping Hungarian corruption in check to maximize their profiteering, they demanded results), however now the country is mismanaged into oblivion because Orbán does not like competition and only employs yes-men in key positions, a.k.a. "competency is undesirable" syndrome, just like the Rákosi era between 1948 and 1953, there was famine, a housing crisis, you know, basic dictator crap. Now it's an unemployment crisis, a massive brain-drain, even worse than it was during the socialist days, mass poverty, inflation and the list keeps piling. Whenever you see how Hungary as a country doing stupid things, it's political, ALWAYS political, it's not the people but the elite. If you ever want to understand the BS, like the blatant lies and such, just think what FUNCTION the BS serves and it will make sense. It's basically manipulative legalese mixed with Soviet-style propaganda. Nowadays even the Russians don't do it as well as Orbán and his thugs do it now. There is a reason Hungarians tend to leave Hungary behind. You don't owe allegiance to a government that does not give a damn about you, what you want, what you need, what threatens you, the government serves itself first and foremost, the people are an afterthought. This has been like this for a long-long time, hence the people no longer really care enough to actually do something. Whenever Hungarians rose up against oppression they received terror and retribution as a response. Basically we have multigenerational PTSD from our crap history and this shows everywhere.

[@lordcommissardavid]

As a Czech i have to say this: WE WILL NEVER STOP RENAMING THEM, TRY AND STOP US!

[@informitas0117]

I'm renaming one right now.

[@MiroslavMydlo]

I'd say you should double on your effort on renaming things! Like to this day I don't understand why didn't you rename Pokémons like Germans. What happened there? Systemic failure on all levels

[@mycosys]

czechs out

[@Seb1l]

Your a monster! 😱

[@mycosys]

@@Seb1l EuroMonster - thats a great suggestion!

[@farson1612]

Using 'cutting edge european rail' and Germany in the same sentence is kinda funny. I live in a Swiss city, bordering Germany and it's almost daily business to prevent german trains to enter the country because they are so late that they would disturb our timetable..

[@pocarski]

German rail is cutting edge, because a cutting edge is exactly what you want to use on yourself after experiencing DB

[@IgorRockt]

That's not because of the technology, though, but because of bad management (like not investing in maintenance).

[@schlossgespenst06]

ja aber schweizer züge sind ehrlich gesagt auch nicht so das gelbe vom ei. 💀 mein zug von mailand nach zürich hatte fast 2h verspätung. während der deutsche ice pünktlich in frankfurt angekommen ist. 😅

[@phillipanselmo8540]

it's what happened after germany privatized its railway

[@robd8577]

So the Swiss delay the German trains even more?

[@dr.veg4punk]

„It was at this time that someone at the hungarian railways headquarters found themselves sober on a monday morning“ :D Someone missed the routine morning palinka shot. ;D

[@Limrasson]

I'm fairly certain that between the two events mentioned, there wasn't a third.

[@TalesOfWar]

I really miss research for the sake of research. We had the British Rail Research Division in the UK up to the point of privatisation in the early 90's. We invented things like tilting trains, the Automatic Warning System as part of the signalling system and played with all manner of different class types just to see what did and didn't work. They just did stuff with no particular end goal in mind, just the idea of making something new and better. This is where your really need public ownership of things like this, private companies just aren't (by and large) going to do something that can cost a bunch of money and time and have no direct return on investment.

[@davidty2006]

That also worked along side British Rail Engineering Limited which well built the stuff. Alot of that they done still remain on the network, the signalling system is simple electronic circuits but it works very well. ontop of their final rolling stock which still going but due to privatisation we were robbed of it's full capabiltiy and replacement.

[@bagoston325]

Technically MÁV (the main Hungarian rail operator) is a state-owned entity. Why they aren't doing research, or improving public transport is beyond me, I guess they're too busy stealing money from publicly funded projects, and seeing the infrastructure crumble around the country, because letting a single person win all the construction projects with their company, and collaborating with the chinese are surely not going to bite us in the ass later. Right guys?

[@Lancasterlaw1175]

I wish we still research how to get trains to move faster on third rail, I bet if we put the effort in we could beat those 90mph records from the 70's

[@smalltime0]

I'd point out that it wasn't research for the sake of research. It was just that the research was done without a specific end goal or timeframe.

[@davidty2006]

@@smalltime0 Research done for the sake of "this is good, but it can be better"

[@person-ub2cy]

Me and my friend were talking public transport which eventually flowed into trains and rail. Then a random guy walked up to us and said confidently “YoU KnOW WHaT CouNTrY HAs ThE bEsT trAiNs tHE UsA”

[@Camra1040]

Wow, No. we have possibly the worst rail, as evidenced by only freight companies using them, and they're private companies so they all cut down the number of lines and shutdown railways with no schedule what so ever. also fright has priority over passenger making it even worse

[@grellie4845]

LMAOOO 💀

[@GizzyDillespee]

He didn't say "public" trains. That was your assumption.

[@tomppeli.]

@@Camra1040 To be fair, money and the flow of material is prioritised over people so heavily in the US it's not even funny Oh yeah and the same about rail too

[@thespanishinquisition4078]

​@@GizzyDillespeestill. US doesn't even have the infrastructure for proper, good HSR. It doesn't even QUALIFY for the best private trains either.

[@daddyraksa2228]

Basicially in Hungary MÁV is like Internet Explorer. You don't know if it's going to work or not. Sometimes the trains arrive on time, most of the times you can count on 15-90 minutes of wait. Once I was unlucky enough that my train was delayed 180 minutes.

[@geography_czek5699]

Czech here. The naming of train sets is a great idea in my opinion. Especially for non-train people from the marketing perspective. Because when you say "we ordered 10 new class 650 EMU´s" normal people have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. But when you say "We ordered new RegioPanters" then everybody knows. And not only Czechia does this. For example Italy does something similar. I am not saying the way we do it is the best. There are flaws like for example that the ComfortJet should have been named as RailJet (2). But at the end, the trains and units would have receive nicknames either way. Just not officially.

[@highlorddarkstar]

Why not just call them Emus? Australia would love it.

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

Yes. It's much easier to remember a name than a number.

[@laurencefraser]

@@adrianthoroughgood1191 having the number as part of the name can work out, so long as the number isn't too long and the name's an actual name rather than just a jumble of letters that don't mean anything.

[@petrfedor1851]

I think it´s great for new trains that gonna be ordered in high numbers and become staple at specific kind of services (like Regio Panters, City Elephants, Foxes amd even RegioNovas) but it´s kinda silly with trains ordered in small numbers (like Sharks) ot some that occasionaly appear somewhere in small numbers (like Regio Spiders, which no one ever reffered as such) and it´s straight up idiotic on fucking old 810 that already had like billion nick names. And I guess ČD chilled out with it recently with the push-pull unit not receiving any official name and renewed Siemens Desiro for Liberec region also not receiving any name.

[@osasunaitor]

Here in Spain they had the same idea, but instead of naming them after already existing things, they made up some fantasy words all starting with A (Alvia, Altaria, Avant, Avlo, Alaris...) which ends up being equally confusing lol. We took a good idea and fcked it up, classic Spain.

[@davidthorne7712]

As a New Zealander, my interest perked up when the GANZ company was mentioned as they constructed the Wellington suburban EMU's (clas EM-ET) that plied our rails for 38 years between 1982-2016.

[@lakelandbuzz2252]

"Without actially investing any significant funds into it." I almost asked "where did the funds go then?" But then i remembered, oh yeah. Corruption.

[@coolbanana165]

Why would people want innovation when they could have authoritarianism and oppression?

[@pannaalmaberente9966]

Pretty much. The funds went into someone's pocket

[@Eeo_Mii]

I saw green white and red and wondered "oh shit what the fuck did Italy do this time?" before realizing it was Orban all along.

[@placeholdername0000]

Well, they did mess up the Danish rail network. Edit for added context: An Italian factory was contracted to make the Danish IC4 train. Which was a disaster.

[@maverickvgc4220]

​@@placeholdername0000That is what happens when you leave Ansaldo unsupervised (the same happened with Fyra). Put them to work with someone else and they'll give you something actually good like the ETR1000. Luckily Hitachi bought them so they have their long needed supervision.

[@socialistdemocrat7207]

Italy and trains is actually quite a match. Just be reminded that Italy had the first HSL in Europe to open in 1977, 4 years before the first LGV in France

[@nikokolihno5936]

BE GONE orban, as a Pole I feel you, took 8 years for us

[@faceless30s]

If only there was any opposition. We have orban with fidesz, then red fidesz, racist fidesz, independent fidesz, and some guys who gave up and made a meme about the situation (fun fact they actually won a district in the capital). At this point i gave up and eagerly waiting for the austrians if they want their monarchy back.

[@Erycson55]

Like its any fucking better now... same shit rly

[@the_pinkerton]

It's still kinda bad here, parties like PSL are at this point almost as much right wing as PiS

[@InvaderNatDT]

Cry your liberal tears, Hungary will never become an EU puppet like Poland has.

[@nikokolihno5936]

@@the_pinkerton psl may be medieval, however not authoritarian

[@barci0404]

Well as a fellow Hungarian railway enthusiast, I can wholeheartedly say, that I am really-really sorry about the BVmot-s or as we would call them the "Samu"-s. This video was quite a sad realization of what could have come... And in fact, we are currently really f***ed, as there is no ongoing rollingstock development in Hungary, even though such things should have come about 5 years ago now... Either way, awesome video, thank you for it!

[@erikziak1249]

Meanwhile Slovakia: I am so happy nobody is talking about my Railway.

[@regmount4734]

ŽSR and ZSSK are National treasure

[@Redrally]

I was on the Bratislava Košice route some years ago. BEST railway food I had ever had. I am being sincere.

[@brick6347]

@@Redrally I've done that trip. I spent most of it standing in the aisle, so I didn't try the food.

[@petrfedor1851]

Apparently there are some nice new(ish) trains (some brand new conventional cars, some modernised and, of course, shit ton of Panters) and some modernisation of railway (thou sometimes it goes wrong ending breaking Czech Pendolino to the point we just keep it for spare part for the remaining)

[@whitewolf44a]

I frequently travel the Bratislava Komárno route... its just saaaad. Fuck regiojet and whatever the fuck came after it

[@ateyygmd]

I love how Lázár János isn't willing to get the new Vectrons for MÁV because "ew Germany, Siemens bad and the west is falling"

[@sikertsok225]

But he has time to scream about Fanta not having enough orange... What MÁV needs is better rail. The rolling stock is shit, yes. But the rail is utter fuckin' GARBAGE... On the Veszprém-Székesfehérvár line for example, it's all single track, all the way baby!!! So one late train makes all trains late! And that single track is in such a shit condition, that it's not even funny!

[@justjaguar2314]

Not even getting parts for a ton of "young" (20y old) Desiros, so they're rotting at the train graveyard at Székesfehérvár, not knowing what their future will be. It's a sad, sad sight

[@apierror]

@@sikertsok225 Nah, they are too busy making freight train traffic go through downtown Budapest, including a supposedly luxury sub-district and a university.

[@railfilm]

Siemens was backmailed Hungary when they refused a cooperation on the new nuclear power station Paks 2, build by a huge international consortium lead by Rosatom, but there are US, France and Czech companies also. No more Germans. And that is OK. Therefore no more Siemens locomotives for Hungary, there are many options.

[@LadrixiaThorne]

@@sikertsok225 Same at the Szeged line from Cegléd. During school year I travel to and from Szeged 2 times a week (godforsaken transit at Cegléd). Starting from Szeged after the first station the train is already 7 minutes late and the transit time at Cegléd is 7 minutes. I miss my transit at Cegléd from Szeged on average every 2nd week and the last 2 months of travel (mid march-mid may) it was more like I reach my transit every 3rd week.

[@Pan_Schaboszczak]

Hungarian railways in the '90s: producing the best suburban railway set ever Polish railways in the '90s: 💀

[@michawisniewski4654]

well, we made some improvements here. We even have first trains with DRM ;) However, train operators are still surprised by some demand spikes. Like seriously, is it that hard to add one or two cars when you have large venue or festival and you already sold out all ticketsweek before?

[@Richter451]

Being a Hungarian and sometimes having to be on old soviet pre 1980s trains when shit like this could have been a reality is depressing

[@marknoeharza368]

and they are on regular schedule. Like, you have Flirt on the line, but in two specific occasions a day, you have the classic set

[@tottiamus]

Alright, I'll fight you on the Railjet: As an Austrian who also lived in Switzerland for some years and never drives or flies, I have used the Railjet upwards of 200 times. There are a few major problems with it: It has a comical amount of technical issues - every fifth (longer) ride, you get to experience an emergency stop due to a drive control failure. The seats are exquisitely uncomfortable, I will take any Stadler train any day over the Railjet. The space is basically only designed for solo travellers or couples. There is absolutely no space for families and only a tiny playground/tv screen "theather" for children. It is very noisy, as there are too few seperations. There is very little space for luggage and no space for skis (a very common occurance in Austria in the winter). All of these things are better designed in the Swiss trainsets. Finally, the capacity is very low for the length - they really should have gone with a bi-level layout from the start, something which they are now amending in the new orders. Often, two RJ are coupled together and then you get to walk a good half kilometer to the end of the platform, due to the single level layout. I'm very thankful for the Austrian train service overall, but the Railjet being the best HSR? Never.

[@MazeFrame]

Sounds like the same crap as Germanys ICE4's

[@ohjumpa]

I once had the "pleasure" to be booked on a Hungarian Intercity from Prague to Hamburg. Years after, I'm still paying my psychologist to cope with that trauma. Even in first class they are the worst imaginable. AC stuck at arctic temperature, broke seats, broken toilet, broken everything and a weird looking 1980 design from the 1990s

[@yadakakadu]

You had not the misfortune to go on an Interpici in the summer.

[@apxutekctypa]

as a Ukrainian, you have air conditioning on your trains?

[@yadakakadu]

@@apxutekctypa If there is, it is usually set to "blizzard" or broken.

[@Dommifax]

@@yadakakadu as a German I haven't had the Blizzard experience yet (though I'm admittedly most comfortable with temperatures slightly below 20 so ymmv), what I do however get to experience every summer is the amazing combination of broken AC, locked windows and 35+ degrees in the shadow - with everyone just trying to somehow survive until the next stop, so at least a bit of air can come in through the doors in recent years they've begun to phase in new regional trains called Süwex though - I'm always happy when I see one of them instead of the old ones arriving

[@Lancasterlaw1175]

@@Dommifax I miss opening windows

[@tatrankaska2305]

Don't touch the Regio Mouse. That name is absolutely great for 810's, the cutest and most wholesome trains ever constructed in the universe. MOTORÁČÉÉÉÉÉK

[@sladkyhermelin3756]

Regio Mouse jsem ještě neviděl. A stejně pro mě to navěky je motorák nebo regionova.

[@szendistreamingvideos6620]

the thing is that máv is so underfunded that half of the "newer" simes are only in the warehouse and they take the parts out of them when the rest need to be replaced because they don't have the money to order the parts from the simens so it's a miracle that the mav still works somehow it's not surprising that they can't improve

[@railfilm]

What are you talking about ? MAV purchased 160 Stadler EMUs (FLIRTs, KISSes), and also many Desiros, few Talents in the last 10-15 years. This is more than in the 30 years before 2010. They renew many major lines, they build a complete new line towards Belgrade. Look into the statistics. In Austria they invest into railways almost €1000 / year/ head, in Eastrn Europe similar number from CZ is just €116, and Hungary is about €110. all other countries around invest less than €100 for railways. On top of that the ticket prises in thise countries are just a portion of ticket prices in Austria! Do not forget, the recent railway reconstructions are about 2-3 times more expensive as 20 years ago, due to the new safety (ETCS) and other requirements ( like water management, noise killing etc) these are facts and generally 1 km reconstruction of a single track on mainline cost about 8 millions Euro. This money somebody must have.

[@HossuhAffasHomBOSS]

​​@@railfilmdesiros, talents, and the first 60 flirts (more than half of ehat you said) are 17-21 years old, not 10-15 also half of these desiros rot on side tracks

[@robertbalazslorincz8218]

Yeah. We F*CKED. UP. Hard. Fun fact: the first push pull train in Hungary ran in like 1963 I guess Ganz is still SOMEWHAT in existance, the plans for the cars also probably still exist, it may as well be down to a bunch of forward-thinking nerds to get into parliament and Ganz and try to realise the dream that we previously couldn't. Assuming I can find a dozen fellas who think like this and I can get my sorry backend past uni and engineering *HERNYÓÓÓÓ*

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

*1 of 2: This is how you always need to vote:* We must fully criticize and _always vote_ *against* (& less authoritarian than) both the Republican *and* Democratic Parties- including *Kamala Harris,* AOC, all of the squad, Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, Mark Pocan, the justice democrats, & all other democrats. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real progressives will never be Democratic Members or Democratic loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Republican member or loyalist either. If no candidates for a position fit that bill: -Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person; -Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies: Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge. *2 of 2: This is how you always need to vote:* We must fully criticize and _always vote_ *against* (& less authoritarian than) both the Democratic *and* Republican Parties- including *Trump,* Vivek Ramaswamy, Rand Paul (He’s _no_ Ron Paul), Thomas Massie, Warren Davidson, Ron Johnson, and all other Republicans. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real libertarians will never be Republicans or Republican loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Democratic member or loyalist either. If no candidates for a position fit that bill: -Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person; -Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies: Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

Everyone read the voting comment above! All the info on how you need to vote. Every time.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

Every vote for every election is a victory: each one decreases the power of the monopolizing parties.

[@pitdarkangel2961]

Ha sikerül, kérlek tartsd meg a *HERNYÓÓÓÓ* nevet a vonatnak

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

@@pitdarkangel2961 Convert my top reply on voting in your language and follow the strategy! Teach all others to follow the same strategy

[@richardcheese1010]

babe wake up, adam uploaded another video about the hungarian national railways

[@pavelsovicka5292]

Just a suggestion, you could look into the Czechoslovak classes 451/452 and then how it devolved to class 460. Which oddly looks a lot similar to this in its regional version...

[@hoholu4650]

Don't tell Adam about Czechoslovak suburban EMU class 451(ex. EM475.1) from 1960s that was even low floor with design that looks good even today

[@Danny2462]

Can't wait for a follow-up to this considering recent... developments

[@jakubsprinzl4023]

Also, in Czech Republic in South Moravian District the local government bought its own trains called MORAVIA and now they are leasing them to the Czech Rail service. These trains are really amazing (wifi, bike racks, etc.) and run on the local lines from small villages to Brno (the capital).

[@t0biascze644]

the Moravia trains are just Škoda RegioPanters in red they are the same ones ČD uses

[@martinytcz1762]

@@t0biascze644 Technically they aren't the same, but very similar yes.

[@jakubsprinzl4023]

@@t0biascze644 Yeah but the difference is that prior to the purchase these lines were serviced by old ČD trains from the 90s maybe even older. I used to take them to school and it wasn't really pleasant and now these are like from a gift from heaven and if it wasn't for the purchase from the JMK the old ones would still be in service here.

[@jamesroberts3485]

As an American I'm glad other countries are also suffering from politicians being so inept with trains. What can I say misery loves company

[@PhoenixHen]

Hungary mentioned RAAAAHHH 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺

[@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave]

WHAT THE **** IS A VICTORY

[@Cold_Aspect]

I WISH I COULD LIKE THIS COMMENT MULTIPLE TIMES

[@aribantala]

Not Hungarian, but I am a bit disappointed there's no "Bojler Elado" here 😔

[@stuckupcurlyguy]

BOJLER ELADOOO

[@krkngd-wn6xj]

WHAT THE FUCK IS A DEMOCRACY

[@saulofernandes4949]

I hate when i'm chill in the internet and a wild Orban Appears

[@edavis4835]

@AdamSomething your channel and notJustbikes were part of the reason I decided to major in city and regional planning. Graduating soon too😊

[@SirGalahard]

When someone finds the remains of this civilization, it will be written about the end of it: "It happened because of Orbán". And it will be unironically true.

[@Flashv28]

Hungarys R Reagan

[@HypatiaStudy]

Yeah, cholesterol is our only hope… to start it all over again from the level of 1867.

[@KasumiRINA]

There are many ways to fix it, just need to have more steady hands than Cintula and Crooks.

[@TristanGriffin-xe1ju]

Brriton here; two weeks ago went on a Cezch train for the first time, going from Prague to Vienna. Cheap, clean, comfertable and efficent. A grade from me, Hungary should copy their homework.

[@davidty2006]

Adam making hungary's network sound worse than britain... maybe we should give them our old mark 3 sets....

[@tomirexthereal]

well the czech prague-vienna train is literally just a repainted Railjet which he praised in the video so no wonder

[@zsoltpeterdaniel8413]

​@@davidty2006It genuinely is. We still run diesel Railbuses called BZmot because the track cant even take a heavier train💀 Intercity routes are still single tracked and cause MASSIVE delays when the outbound train has to wait for the delayed inbound one.

[@martinytcz1762]

@@zsoltpeterdaniel8413 They are also present in Czechia, called the class 810 or Šukafon, though to be fair quite rare in day-to-day operation nowadays.

@@davidty2006 The only thing which is better here are the ticket prices.

[@franciscocorrea4587]

Brazil used Hungarian trains (TUD Ganz-MÁVAG) in the seventies and early eighties. They were deemed very comfortable, but went quickly out of service because they supposedly did not fare well in the hilly routes they operated.

[@railfilm]

Not only Brazil, but also Argentina had the Hungarian DMUs. But even the metro in New Zealand had Ganz units. In Africa Egypt and Tunesia had/has Hungarian DMUs or coaches.

[@krkngd-wn6xj]

It makes sense. The majority of Hungary by area is Alföld, which is just a steppe as flat as it can be. Even in the northern, more mountainous regions I grew up in, there are plenty of valleys, and other "easier" terrain around large cities, which is where train lines usually operate. Plus the highest point in Hungary is almost exactly 1000m above sea level, we don't exactly have big mountains. We don't really have the requirement of trains that can work on really sudden elevation changes.

[@railfilm]

@@krkngd-wn6xj those vehicles were not designed for Hungarian railways. In Hungary there were no such trains. One larger DMU was designed and built for for government in the early 60ies. This is still existing in museum. On the other side Ganz designed from late 50ies several DMUs used mainly for international express services like Hungaria etc (Budapest, Bratislava, Prague, Berlin). Those trains were quite popular and several neighbore countries purchased such units (CSD, DR, PKP). Their bigger counterparts the D1 trains were very popular in eastern part of the former USSR - baltic states, Ukraina, Moldavia etc). Many of those DMUs are still in service, several of them were rebuilt in Romania and are used now in international service.

[@gabesz]

Nice presentation! Not many people realized how great was the BVmot back then. The only issue with them was due to the fact that the three units built was only pre-production prototypes and and Ganz never had a chance to fix the issues what they identified in the prototypes in the production sets as no further units ordered.

[@alexiskaas907]

I love seeing ads on your channel like Nord VPN cause it means you're making good money on these really fun videos. Been watching for years with no end in sight, great job Adam Something!

[@ZILtoid1991]

Hungary does this with everything. Arts, sciences, etc., just because it doesn't fit into the narrow field of what a dictator thinks as "success", which for Viktor Orbán is soccer, and "real, hard manual labor". Even if they not get directly targeted, artistic endeavors get cut short thanks to the low-paying jobs (now with 12 hour workdays if you work at a factory!), so everyone's number one priority is to leave the country ASAP, with art being a luxury for many. I struggle a lot with developing games my own way (using my own engine), and I saw many people either giving up their own projects, or sidelining them so much they release stuff after a lot of time as they didn't had enough time besides a full time job and many other things.

[@noHarmony1]

As someone who lives in Austria and has traveled by train through Germany and I hear "train" and "Germany" in the same sentence I think about cutting something alright, but its not the "edge". Three out of the last fourt times I was delayed but more than a third of my total travelling time. No offense to our German neighbours but something tells me quite a few of them might even agree with me.

[@yetzt]

yes, that can sometimes happen when you privatize state owned rail infrastructure and operation in order to generate dividends for the state, split it up into about 200 different entities that pay each other money, neglect the infrastructure for three decades and in the end fire ten thousand staff because the dividends are too low.

[@tomppeli.]

I've heard that German railways is good, but not great in terms of European rail they may have a few of them high-speed rail, but since I'm not too knowledgeable, this is sobering

[@f0x4nn3]

OBB is very nice, they gave me a hotel voucher and new train tickets for next morning when i missed my Nightjet due to delays.

[@noHarmony1]

@@tomppeli. As an Austrian Im a bit spoiled, but the german railway USED to be really good. But compared to railways from elsewhere they might still be good, though I cant judge hete, Ive never taken a train outside of europe.

[@TalesOfWar]

@@noHarmony1 Compared to the UK rail system, Germany is pretty good. Sweden isn't all that great either.

[@Nightraven26]

Croatian here, the 6111 series actually has the nickname “The Hungarian” in Croatia.

[@log9357]

the uninterrupted acceleration of the train with anime-type visual effects is the best part of the video PERIOD

[@Zyo117]

Personally I still miss the 3 speed transmission the electric trains in the Greater Vancouver area in Canada used to have 😂 it was basically 2 granny gears and then the high speed gear. They always sounded cool to me.

[@justjaguar2314]

Samu go *SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECCCCCHHH*

[@davidty2006]

Im now missing the sound of the Jubilee line trains, with their wrrrrrrrrrrrr, WRRRRRRRRRR, WRRRRRRRRR, WrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRR

[@steemlenn8797]

Reminds me of late 50s GDR "VT 2.09" that were still running for years after reunification on some lines. I think they had 2 gears and every passenger visibly moved when it was changed. Also there was not much seperating you from the engine which had less power than many cars today but made noise like a ten wheeler. Great stuff for a kid.

[@williamhuang8309]

@@Zyo117 The skytrain? The Mark 1 trains are still in service

[@MinishMan]

I haven't ridden Austrian railjet but I have ridden Chinese high speed rail a lot and it is epic. Not only is it extremely reasonably priced - you'll see every economic 'class' riding them, trains are always on time, sparkling clean, and they turn the seats so you're all, always facing forward, like on an aeroplane. Did I mention that they have hot water dispensers so you can bring your own tea / noodles? Truly the pinnacle of travel.

[@anonymous-hz2un]

Hot water 😱😱

[@honziq]

The Czech obsession with naming trains goes further than the physical types though. I recently learned from my family there that ČD started naming the services of semi-fast trains (the second slowest category, "spěšné vlaky"), so you now have a 3-car Regio-something running between Jihlava and Telč like it was the freaking Orient Express 😂

[@Lizardmium]

Works good tho when you dont need the capacity of express train but still want to skip some smaller stations on the line with regular small train

[@honziq]

​@@Lizardmium I was talking about the (nick)names for individual services like "the train at 9h24 from X to Y". Not rolling stock or train class. I just found it funny that this naming thing goes more and more local. Dunno if it will catch with the riders though...

[@KasumiRINA]

Czechs named T-72 tank they crowdfunded for us Thomas in honor of Thomas the Tank Engine I presume... :3

[@honziq]

@@KasumiRINA Wouldn't suprised me, could fit well with the Czech style of humor...

[@demon_xd_]

Adam is finally embracing his true form: a mathematical god of steel, efficiency and enigmatic linguistic heritage

[@Limrasson]

Yeah, last month there was this insane heat wave, pretty much all the trains got cooked. Some bootlicker or other actually said we should not use the trains. I was caught at the start of it, fortunately only had to travel once (but it was a 4,5 hours ride, one way) At this point, just put us out of our misery.

[@dandislavlicka6791]

I don't want to spoil Adam's joy at the fact that MÁV has revolutionized railway transport, but from his description of the BDVmot I have the feeling that they are quite similar to the 25 years older Czechoslovak EM475.1. And they are not even low-floor.

[@petrfedor1851]

I think closer to 460/560 but with automatic doors.

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

They are actually not too dissimilar from some American Multiple Units from the 1920s

[@dandislavlicka6791]

@@petrfedor1851Sorry, I used the wrong words. My point was that the things Adam mentioned as modern were in use much earlier.

[@krkngd-wn6xj]

Name a more archetypal Hungarian story then "amazing idea that the government fucks up by not funding it".

[@mikolasstrajt3874]

In Czechoslovakia had electric multiple unit for suburban transport back then in 1960s (class 451). It was mostly low floor, accelerated like crazy and had automatic doors. It was withdrawn in 2018 well beyond it's planned lifespan.

[@architektradim]

And the pneumatic-based power control was just so cool!

[@Чех-б2ю]

@@mikolasstrajt3874 Yep, CityFrog/RegioFrog missing in the list…

[@mikolasstrajt3874]

@@Чех-б2ю it's missing from the list because it's not in service as of 2018. It was decomissioned.

[@Tudsamfa]

You know, while we are talking about east-european railway, you should do a video about Newag, Poland. They were in the news last year as Newag would brick their own trains if they were being serviced by 3rd party repair shops. Dragon Sector, the hacker group who brought this to light, had a great talk at last years hacker convention "CCC". I'm sure you could and would be interested in adapting this story for a wider audience.

[@TheFeldhamster]

That CCC talk is amazing!

[@boegadi]

Not even a shoutout for the Netherlands in the intro, now I’m sad Adam

[@ylzerb6188]

Czechs literally had one of the most advanced EMUs with automatic coupleres in 1964, acceleration was also insane.

[@costinhalaicu2746]

Wait until you meet Romanian rail, where the train from Cluj to Bucharest takes 10 hours for 400km and the rolling stock was all built sometime in the mesolithic, Adam. That's when you'll get the "maybe Hungarian rail is pretty decent" feel... :))

[@lordmilchreis1885]

Will you ever make videos in Hungarian? genuine question, because alot of Hungarians could benefit from it.

[@justjaguar2314]

Lol me too. I desperately wanna hear him say some hungarian sentences😢

[@jurajkovac8507]

So... about that naming: Yeah, ČD does tend to get a bit overboard, but they can't legally use Railjet for their new sets, because it's a trademark owned by ÖBB. Their seven actual railjets were essentially bought off of an original ÖBB purchase contract, and they're operated as a joint venture with the Austrians. The sets are owned by ČD, but the corresponding Taurus locomotives are on lease from ÖBB. The product is designated "ČD railjet" and the timetable shows the train category as rj. Their subsequent purchases (InterJet/ComfortJet) are their own, and so they chose different branding, even though among those two it's arguably splitting hairs. As for the regional trains, it started with the RegioNova and CityElefant back in the late 2000s and for some reason, the branding seems to resonate with the public, so they stuck with it.

[@cycloid2326]

0:35 Didn’t know I was watching a Lazerpig video in disguise

[@oliverpapai6011]

As a hungarian this made me tear up, due to my family being poor and now studying at the university, i could safely say i took 2-3 train rides a week for the past 10 years on average(every week yes), and my dad always used to joke how these trains very shiny and new when my grandpa was in his teens (early 1960s) U can say what you want abt the Hungarian State Railways, but for 4,5 euros students can ride every train and long distance bus in Hungary for a month(yes, the entire country), and recently it was expanded to the public transport of Budapest(same 4,5 euro pass), so for basically free id say its fucking awesome

[@morbid1.]

I have nostalgia for Hungarian Ikarus buses... staple of polish commuting in the 90s and early 2000...

[@nokedili]

i travelled with tópart "intercity" a week ago, it's a truly unique experience (it was like 40° inside and got delayed for 30 minutes)

[@blasius7704]

Half of the cars are intercity and the others are "tópart express". There is AC on the intercity but its a bit pricier as you also have to purchase a seat reservation besides the ticket. Tópart express has no AC and you sit wherever you find a free seat

[@justjaguar2314]

Jah, a Balaton környékiek nagyon trék tudnak lenni. Én Vízipókkal mentem még július elején, hát kínzó volt az a 2 órás út, de visszafele a FLIRT-öt használó Katica interrégió már sokkal kényelmesebb volt. Utána kell nézni sajnos milyen féle kocsik mennek ilyen-olyan járatokon ://

[@marcellkovacs5452]

that doesn't sound unique, it's the standard MÁV experience of the 2000-2010s

[@WeItenspinner]

Well, in their defence: Developing something worse than Die Deutsch Bahn is a quite difficult task to accomplish.

[@NoZoDE]

Sorry to be that guy, but DB doesn't really develop their trains, they give specifications they wish for to manufacturers like Siemens, Alstom, even Skoda who then develop a train (or give them an already in production model with minor adjustments). And the specifications themselves (for regional services) are given by the federal state. So if a state says that they don't want Wifi in the trains they're not going to have Wifi and vice versa.

[@Tzumaoable]

Of the many, many problems DB has, the rolling stock itself is hardly one.

[@WeItenspinner]

@@NoZoDE No no, please never stop being that guy. :)

[@LastGoatKnight]

Color me surprised. (I'm a born Hungarian and I noticed this trend a long time ago)

[@festivalkyrie]

My favorite thing about those "new" trains, the red one called Flirt, and the next model Kiss has those weird parts that make a banshee sound when speeding up- and their toilet opening sounds like it's from the Enterprise.

[@placeholdername0000]

This somewhat similar to the Danish IC3 series (with the IR4 and the Øresundstrain). Yes, the original IC3 is a DMU, but that is fine, especially considering the need to load it onto the ferry where there wasn't any overhead electrification (the ferry was thankfully replaced by the Great Belt fixed link back in 1997). A decent series of multiple unit trains, which were quite frankly amazing. Designed with the concept of splitting the trains into smaller sections along the route, so that you could cover different parts of the country while also conserving capacity along the main route to Copenhagen, which was limited. Unfortunately, the government decided that what we really needed was a new diesel multiple unit, which was bought from a cheap Italian train factory. That meant that the factory, which had been turning out all electric IR4 units, was shut down. Finally, the new DMU trains got delivered years late, took another half decade before they ran halfway decently, and much of the new train fleet has been gutted for spare parts and scrapped, and the new train is scheduled to be decommissioned years before the old IC3.

[@raymondkhessel]

Every second long distance train is late and their speed is limited to 100 kilometers per hour in Hungary

[@denikec]

My town used to have railroad in northern hungary, my grandma was the conductor and the only manager of the railway office until 2005. She retired that year, and the entire line was closed in early 2006 by MÁV to cut costs, and now the line and the building are just rotting there. it wasn't that fast, the line had only diesel BZs, but you could still get to the capital if you just hopped on the train in the morning. Now commuting to the capital from here is so tedious, having to change buses 2 times, and then change to a train halfway through. You're better off with taking the car to a place where you can actually board a train. Now the sate of the railway company is getting worse and worse along with the tracks, thanks to the competent leadership and government. it's a shame, really. But hey, now we're going to take loans for railroad from one of Orbán's best friends, CHINA. Going to be very awesome surely.

[@marcussoleil3733]

"Ready to join the cutting edge of European long-distance rail" - Shows a picture of the bloody Deutsche Bahn. The DB is what you get when the company treats passengers like cargo with a short shelf-life.

[@captaincapslock8654]

Every time this man drops a vid I know I'm in for a treat. The talent of creating original educational content that is also engaging and funny, that is so powerful. Thanks for your passion and dedication!

[@regmount4734]

RailJet is OBB mark, so only OBB can use it legally. And if you ask about ČD Railjet from Prague to Graz, OBB has special deal with ČD that they can use it, becouse on that line there are both: ČD and OBB RailJets. So they have to must come with something similar. Comforjets are just international InterJet (same design, just with bistro car and control car).

[@TohaBgood2]

Funny enough, the Millenniums Falcon sound from Star Wars is actually the sound of a BART train from the Bay Area! BART was brand new at the time, the pinnacle of modernity. It was a space age system with fully automatic trains 80 mph (130 km/h) speeds and a completely digital centralized "brain". So trains sounding like the Millennium Falcon is actually a thing! Literally a thing!

[@i-kun_yeetpain]

6:17 That is sheer music to my ears.

[@marklydavid4393]

Well, you'd think that the Stadler KISS is for mid-short distance commuting, but because of the lack of proper high distance trains, MÁV actually uses them as "Inter Régió" trains. So the Stadler KISS crosses half the county (Nyíregyháza-Debrecen-Szolnok-Cegléd-Budapest) with zero luggage space.

[@jansvatek5029]

Czech rails were always a league above Hungary, it has the most dense rail network in the world. Its kinda unfair to compare the two.

[@railfilm]

On the other side Hungarian railways were more unified, what simplified the maintenance and also the operation. If they decided to upgrade something on the network it was always a big step, not like the CSD. Look in the 1960ies when they started the wide electrification. The V43 ( around 500 units) covered almost all requirements. Something similar happened also with the diesel units, and also now. No one of eastern railways purchased in very short time 160 EMUs from Stadler. 😮 Only ÖBB has a similar philosophy with their 500 Taurus locomotives and hundreds of Railjets etc. this is the main diffenernce on one side with ÖBB and MAV on the other side with ZSSk, ZSR, and CD where the variety of different vehicles and motor units is almost endless.

[@martinytcz1762]

@@railfilm Czechia (or ČD to be precise) is trying to unify as much as possible. RegioPanter/InterPanter EMUs, RegioShark/RegioFox DMUs, the only 2 locomotive types that are supposed to stay in operation is the Vectron and the 362. It's just that this takes time, but yeah, still a lot more unified than in the past.

[@railfilm]

@@martinytcz1762 I know quite well the recent situation. Those new vehicles help a lot on main and frequent lines, but for the secondary branch lines there is no optimal vehicle. Also the population of the country is much lower and it is not easy to design a train for branchlines with daily few hundred passengers, and most of them wants to travel in the early morning hours or late afternoon ( workers, kids to schools etc) while the rest of the day is slow.

[@dddaddy]

Maybe so, but still, our problem isn't/wasn't the network, we still have plenty enough density for a country this size - even after numerous closures. It's the entirely f.cked operation and financing. It's not even that we don't have the money, we just don't have our priorities in order.

[@railfilm]

@@dddaddy you know the railway system in each contry has different aspects, and it is not easy to find the optimal way. In many regions the railway is the only thing what couples the people with the open huge world. The transportation from such regions is more or less a social question, who is going to pay for it? Look, as I know, only in Hungary have the seniors ( not only Hungarians) completely free travels. In Slovakia is something similar but not for all trains. In Czech republic you get just bigger discounts on ticket, but it is not free. There are also similar conditions also for schoolkids and students. In Austria one pay for a 30 min ride on suburban(SBahn) train over €12, with some compensation (retired, student) it is still over €6-7 . In Budapest it would be in most cases free travel on a similar or better trains (stadler). On same tracks, probably with similar personal. Somebody has to finance also these priviledges.

[@Zeke1460]

As a train person in your audience, I do indeed find this all pretty cool. I wish it had become the standard.

[@goldenstarmusic1689]

When American intercity rail is doing something better right now, you KNOW you've got a problem

[@TohaBgood2]

In all fairness, Amtrak just looked at what's happening in Europe, picked the "best in class" premium intercity service (Railjet), and cloned it for the entire US. Now every daytime intercity Amtrak train is an Americanized Siemens Railjet with a funny nose! And because Amtrak pretended to never get the memo to cancel it's rather iconic land-cruise overnight trains, the US actually has a solid network of night trains. And because Biden is a train guy, the Acela is getting $60 billion worth of upgrades that will make it a solid mid-HSR line! So this was semi-accidental and they did cheat by just buying the best and most expensive intercity option. But it is kind of true that Amtrak is becoming surprisingly good these days, especially compared to the last couple of decades of neglect.

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

Finally, some classic AdamSomething train content!

[@LymonAdd]

We have Intercity+ in Ukraine as well - fugitive Yanukovich’s legacy - same shitty idea of remodeling old soviet train cars and installing a TV at one of the ends (once I was traveling on a train car with a fat tube TV 📺 hanging from the ceiling on some belts)

[@A_Canadian_In_Poland]

The Polish railways have talked about push-pull sets, and then received a single offer for 3 BILLION euros for only 38 trainsets. PKP cancelled the tender due to it being double the stipulated maximum budget, and has re-tendered for electric multiple units. Complicating matters further, train toilets that dump onto the tracks will no longer be permitted to operate on Polish tracks starting from the December timetable change this year, necessitating the scrapping of a sizeable amount of passenger wagons and some old EMUs in regional service.

[@theflightengineer_]

I've always known only the shitty version of MÁV but knowing that we had the tech to turn things around like a decade before everyone else just makes me even more sad.

[@maxstr]

Reminds me of Polish PKP in the 1980s and early 90s. Sometimes the doors didn't close properly and would just stay wide open during travel 😅. Also the toilet was just a hole over the tracks.

[@Helioselpoder]

and you could talk about the talgo issue on GANZ-MaVag and the diplomatic crisis between spain and hungary about the public takeover bid of talgo by them

[@Rexter2k]

You should seriously check out the danish IC3 trains and their story. Great trains that’s been in service since 1993 and still to this day most preferred train. In general you should hook up with some danish train youtubers and give Denmark a visit. The public transportation is definitely something for you.

[@philtkaswahl2124]

This was Adam explaining his comic book origin story.

[@barnabasmike4318]

"In 2022, someone in the government woke up sober" - more precisely for the first time in decades, if not a lifetime a competent expert (Dávid Vitézy) was put in charge of Hungarian transportation. Sadly, with the ministry restructuring and Lázár's takeover he left after 6 months.

[@cubirk]

WHEN I START WORKING IN THE TRAINS HERE IN ARGENTINA OUR TRAINS WILL BE THE ENVY OF EVEN JAPAN

[@adrianthoroughgood1191]

I wish all people good luck with building excellent trains!

[@Alias_Anybody]

Let's see how far you can stretch those 5 pesos and one roll of tape.

[@cubirk]

@@Alias_Anybody i sure will, if hungary can (could) then we can

[@steemlenn8797]

That's either some balls of titanium or a medical condition even worse.

[@marinthecreator]

I need more of Adam and European rail stat

[@parrotv2]

we have similar shit in slovakia where we build lots of new cars, only 2 thirds of controll ones were equiped with engines and there are still instances when new train comes with locomotive from 70s

[@PauloEliasJr]

Man, you definitely need to make a video about Brazilian railways, in specific those in São Paulo. Some lines were sold to private companies and quality of service declined. Not to mention the issues with monorails projects.

[@slevinchannel7589]

Fyi, if you like Adam-Something and specifiically his 'Criticism of Arrogance you may like the video i just watched: 'Why Western Designs Fail in Developed Countrys' @PauloEliasJr

[@anonymous-hz2un]

Brazil's just a cute tourist destination producing telenovelas. Nobody cares about its train system 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@jizburg]

As a train person. What do you think of the swedish X2000 trains?

[@darraghmckenna9127]

One of my favourite trains in Europe

[@jizburg]

@@darraghmckenna9127 it looks realy good

[@RavenclawEaglet]

Should come to Sweden to do a video... on how our rail maintenance and modernisation is scheduled to take the next... 350 years at current pace. And how we transformed our main maintenance yard into a... shopping mall and a sports stadium...

[@kailahmann1823]

Why does that "Intercity+" concept reminds me of Germany's "Interregio" back in the 1980s?

[@kurzzug160]

Just because you don't mention that in your video: The Swiss did invent the same concept a few years earlier. The Domino or NPZ trains basically tell the story of how this concept would have developed in Hungary (low-floor intermediate cars etc.)

[@zdanee]

At least they are still trains and not "pods".

[@1xdlol]

I started to watch you and I watch your videos because of videos like this. I love your passion for trains with a little bit of salt in your sense of humour. Thank you Adam from Adam

[@nitroerdely2]

Hungarian Railways: at least we have some ideas from time to time. Romanian Railways: Crickets 🦗