The Hyperion train - Made in Romania

Yep, Desiro. I've checked the numbers and it seems we have 50 of them and in Romania you have 120. As we started talking about trains and I travel mostly with them, because don't have a car, can say a bit more...

They seems to be produced and used for the short distances in Germany where they could travel fast and comfortable. Here they travel slower and it's a pain in the ass to sit on their seats for more than an hour.

We have (as I said) diesel and electric ones, also bigger and smaller models... At first they were great new trains, something nice for our railways, because our trains were always very old and bought from Germany (train carriages, and we have locomotives from Czechoslovakia and Romania (and probably other places)) or the oooold, old shitty electric ones from Russia, you know them, we call them "elektrichka", the ministry want's to finally remove them. So these were something new and great in 2005-6.

And then the troubles started - as our staff haven't been used to exploiting such machinery or there was a lack of mmm.... accessories, I don't know... sometimes in the summer the climatronics didn't work. You can imagine that train without a possibility to open the windows (because it was made with the presumption that the climatronic would always work and get a nice temperature no matter the weather) when outside is 35-40 degrees, inside was like fucking microwave. There were cases of people passed out of the heat, it was just craziness.

Not to mention the toilets - because some of the trains were used to transport villagers or people who're not used to any technology - the toilets were very often broken too, or dirty as fck. Then they decided to... lock them so they can't be used. (Which reminds me the locked toilets at the international buses of our bus companies but it's another topic.)

Next thing - in some cities, when the train passes a gypsy ghetto the monkeys throw stones and break the very expensive windows. So you can see very often these trains with broken windows, often taped with some kind of tape. It's... like fckin parody.

Also - here also often retards try to pass infront of the train, even when seeing the train is coming. And because of these retards the smaller trains get damages worth of millions. If it's the bigger train with the carriages and locomotive- no problem, but that one is way more fragile.

So we got these machines and fucked them up. They were expensive (don't know if relatively expensive for a train, but probably) and I guess it would be cheaper to buy from you, because of the reasons I told before :) Just if our ministers and politicians weren't retards who are probably getting huuuuuge commission for these sells....

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