How France Bought 2,000 Trains That Were Too Wide

Music by Epidemic Sound

[mikaoleander]

what I learned in this video:

- france ordered trains that were to wide
- sam speaks french
- skillshare has a new logo and the old one looked better

[sugameplay]

Adam while writing: because Adam thinks that’s funny I guess

[lonewarrior]

Lol apparently the qualifications for being a train, according to half as interesting is:

1 - Fit on train tracks
2 - Not an airplane

[ghivifahmi]

So next time I'm seeing a French train I'm gonna play that wide music

[enderspirit]

As a native Baguette speaker, this was hilarious

[frsa]

I watched the whole ad hoping to hear French version of skillshare script.

[Ticklestein]

Sam: "We have a 3 min vid, how do we extend?!"
Alex: "Hold my bière..."

[Banzybanz]

Doesn't look like that bad of a blunder. The end result was actually better than if they'd have built narrower trains for the old standard. The French now have wider trains and all stations upto standard for these wide trains, and the extra costs were miniscule compared to the whole project.

I don't understand the EU directive that forced the French railways to split into 2 companies - one for the tracks and one for the trains.

[ACogloc]

As a Frenchman, I'll be honest: that was awful but hilarious.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

You ever just buy trains that are too wide?

Relatable

[chadcagle]

He wrote this for a Canadian audience.

[avia]

During an internship at la Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer I asked an employee who worked in the Infrastructure’s section of the SNCF about how could this happen. And he told me that they were perfectly aware that those trains wouldn’t fit in in those rural stations and that they would have to do some works. So the media said that they weren’t aware but they actually were 😄😄

[GeFlixes]

Alternate title: Thicc french choo-choos.

[BCdesu]

Half as Interesting?
More like Half in French

[nibeh]

Damn, he managed to sneak in an airplane again …

[souloffire]

“Like trying to shove a baguette into a bottle of sauvignon-Blanc”
-sam lol

[mrplop]

i wonder how they realised this mistake.. did a train just yeet itself through a platform before and they went oopsies

As a French person, I didn't notice any "Clichés" at all, not a single one.


C'est faux.

[chuuchuu]

as a native french speaker your pronunciation was honestly adorable

[johnnysecular]

this sounds like an improvement to the rail system; upgrading the older platforms at a cost of $68mil for 1, 300 stations sounds reasonable. the width constraint was silly, it always made sense to upgrade the platforms especially since the guideline for rebuilt and brand new platform was already wider.