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Re:A Parable by Tichy on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @10:26AM (#5139836)
Me too. It's obvious that the two permanently coupled cars are really just one big car with a toilet, and it's obvious from the start that they should just have put a toilet in every car. But that's too easy to be the point, I suppose?

Maybe it is a parable against yet another workaround?

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Re:A Parable by bernardom on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @12:05PM (#5140431)
Having two permanently coupled cars is obvious.

It is NOT obvious that they should have put a toilet in every car. The solution works quite well and you save a potentially large amount of money.

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Re:A Parable by Tichy on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @02:04PM (#5141095)
But then they could have just build bigger cars to begin with, which would have been even more efficient?
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Re:A Parable by toddsifleet on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @02:14PM (#5141148)
That would affect turning radius, and what tracks the train could run on.

Unless of course you built them like the large buses with a swivel in the middle, but then you get into non-standard stuff.

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