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IdiotMachine
04/20/20 7:08:15 PM
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They're not engineers.

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Shotgunnova
04/20/20 7:08:50 PM
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They spycheck when you're not looking.

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butthole666
04/20/20 7:09:11 PM
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They engineer the train not crashing

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R1masher
04/20/20 7:09:57 PM
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... googles arent working or Id look it up on the inter webs

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Squall28
04/20/20 7:10:30 PM
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Why are they called trains? What are the training for?

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__aCEr__
04/20/20 7:12:14 PM
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mono means one and rail means rail

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IdiotMachine
04/20/20 7:53:50 PM
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__aCEr__ posted...
mono means one and rail means rail
And that concludes our intensive three-week course.

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s0nicfan
04/20/20 7:55:52 PM
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I think because they had to be able to do actual maintenance on the engines in case something went wrong, meaning they were real life mechanical engineers.

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Zeus
04/20/20 8:20:00 PM
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Pretty sure they aren't called train engineers since train conductors is already a thing.

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