How Close?

[Richard in Smithville]

I've been to a few markets that are set close to train tracks, but this one wins.

http://www.wimp.com/vegetablemarket/

[pelligrini]

Wow, that's just plain nuts...

maybe bananas would be a better term.

[atgcpaul]

Do you pay extra for train dust?

I was born in Burma. I remember riding a train when I was a little kid (I left
there at 3 1/2 yo) and having to use the bathroom. I looked down into the
toilet and I could see the tracks below.

[cabinetman]

Well...they say location is everything.

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[RodKirby]

Go visit any major city in India -

How many people can you get in/ON a Bus OR a Train
How many people can ride ON a motor scooter

[toolguy1000]

i wonder if the people in that video think that their situation is as unusual as we think it is.

[leehljp]

It was also funny - at least the end where everyone puts out the canopies!

I kinda got used to seeing people use every square millimeter in SE Asia, so I was not surprised.

[jackellis]

I remember riding a train when I was a little kid (I left
there at 3 1/2 yo) and having to use the bathroom. I looked down into the
toilet and I could see the tracks below.

There may be trains in the US that dump waste directly on the tracks. I remember seeing tracks while doing my business on the Metroliner that connects Washington and New York. And in Europe, though it may have been a long time ago.

[charliex]

I found it interesting to see a train going down the sidewalk.

[Shep]

I kept thinking that someone was going to be hit by that train. That's way too close for comfort

[LCHIEN]

things that went thru my head:
absolutely insane
not safe
my that train is clean
wow the containers of food are just high enough so the train clears them even though they're a foot inside and 2 inches from the track.
gee, won't there be dust and dirt deposited on the foodstuffs?
Don't trains drop toilet waste directly onto the tracks? Yuck
wow look at those canopies go back up, this is so normal to them
Finally why is this like this? Is the price of land so high???

[BobSch]

Do you pay extra for train dust?

I was born in Burma. I remember riding a train when I was a little kid (I left
there at 3 1/2 yo) and having to use the bathroom. I looked down into the
toilet and I could see the tracks below.

I remember seeing the same thing when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure trains today have holding tanks, but it was fascinating to a kid of eight or so to see the roadbed go flying by!

[Sweet Willy]

I wonder where or what happens if the train stops. HEY! Don't stand on my squash!!!!

[ironhat]

There may be trains in the US that dump waste directly on the tracks. I remember seeing tracks while doing my business on the Metroliner that connects Washington and New York. And in Europe, though it may have been a long time ago.

Dad worked for the RR (Pennsy) so we rode half fare on foreign lines. When I was in third grade (ca '57) you could see the track when the flapper dropped. By the time I went to work on Penn Central in '74 we were installing self-contained toilets on the cabin cars - cabooses to youses - so that means that the main line trains had already been converted (since the cabooses that we serviced were dedicated to coal service between the mines and the electrical generation stations.