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Green Swedes shun holiday flights for lure of the train

Alejandra Fuentes and her family decided to let the train take the strain when they went on holiday from Sweden last year to Torremolinos in southern Spain.

And they are not alone.

Climate change concerns have prompted tens of thousands of Swedes to join a movement via Facebook. It is so popular that 500 are joining up every day.

Sweden's best-known train traveller is Greta Thunberg - the 16-year-old climate activist who travelled 32 hours to Davos in Switzerland to take her message to world leaders.

I don’t blame them, I much more prefer trains to everything else because you can see more and I don’t get airsick

 

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Green Swedes shun holiday flights for lure of the train



I don’t blame them, I much more prefer trains to everything else because you can see more and I don’t get airsick

Plus search train through Switzerland the views look like they'd make up for the extra time lol.

 

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Stunning! I haven’t done Switzerland yet but I have done the Bergen to Oslo fun and it was truly spectacular. Europe has so many amazing train lines

 

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First train to arrive in Walhalla Victoria 15-3-1910.

Topping up with water at Rinadeena in western Tasmania, 1902.

 

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Cardboard locomotive exhibit in Oita, Japan. Looks just like the real thing!


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Union Pacific's Big Boy #4014 both blows it's whistle and moves under it's own power for the first time in 60 years. Now the only fully functioning/operating Big Boy model (4000-class 4-8-8-4) locomotive in the world. Tomorrow (May 4th) it'll have a christening ceremony at the historic Cheyenne Depot and then leave for Ogden, Utah (making stops along the way - see schedule link at the end of this paragraph)... expected to arrive in Ogden May 9th where it will join with UP #844 for the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike - the May 9th event will be streamed live at 10:30AM Mountain time on UP's facebook page (it will then join with #844 to form a double-header and travel back to Cheyenne) Link to the schedule for those interested: 2019 Union Pacific Steam Schedule

Some #4014 facts: It ran for 20 years between December 1941 and December 1961. During that 20 year span of service, it traveled 1,031,205 miles (1,659,564 km). Is now officially the world's largest operational steam locomotive (previous title held by UP's Challenger #3985)

And these are just some of the videos, if you search for Big Boy 4014 on Youtube, there are more (and there will continue to be more this weekend/into next week as people chase the train on it's journey to Ogden)

 

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Yeah I saw the news about the big boy! I love it, it’s such an epic monster of technology. So glad to see him out and about again

 

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My brother spent most of the day Saturday chasing the train (neither of these videos are his - he puts his on his private facebook page). But he says it was absolutely NUTS up there in Wyoming... traffic insane - worse than it was during the eclipse (because this time around, everyone's going the same direction)... not to mention, you have some of these tiny towns (whose population is *maybe* only in the triple digits - on the higher end) with just these 2 lane highways that are just inundated with mobs of people that are chasing the train. Eventually they (my brother and his coworkers) hit a point in the afternoon/early evening where they just had to call it a day on Big Boy - found a place to turn around and chased a stack train they had seen going the opposite direction on their way back to Cheyenne. Going to be interesting to see what happens once the train hits Echo Canyon

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Bit of bad news here

 

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Someone on tumblr review marvel movies based on what trains are in them

 

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