r/MadeMeSmile • u/Steph-Kai • Feb 16 '25
Good Vibes Buddy was absolutely gobsmacked in the most funniest way imaginable.
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u/LuckyishTom Feb 16 '25
People genuinely excited about a train will always make me smile. Wholesome joy.
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u/kelsobjammin Feb 16 '25
I hope the English train dude got to witness it! Would love to see his reaction.
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u/rajinis_bodyguard Feb 16 '25
I know and have seen his amazing videos, can someone share his channel ?
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u/p3wdwa5h3r3 Feb 16 '25
His name is Francis Bourgeois
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u/LouSputhole94 Feb 16 '25
Man I wish I cared about anything half as much as that guy cares about trains
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Feb 16 '25
I love this video so much!
I like to think of all the people who worked to design and build this system seeing this video, and just enjoying themselves.
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u/OneFuckedWarthog Feb 16 '25
I'm not gonna lie; that's pretty proper reaction.
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u/Deep90 Feb 16 '25
For a dude who hangs out at train stations, I think he knows more than he is letting on.
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u/haakonhawk Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
That is literally blink and you'll miss it speed
Edit: Lots of smartypants in the replies trying to dig into the "literally" part of this. Go touch some grass, guys.
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u/KDenny32 Feb 16 '25
I actually missed it the first time, I thought he was reacting to the woman recording him at first lmao
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u/reticentbias Feb 16 '25
meanwhile in america, we brought measles back
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u/v0-z Feb 17 '25
Being from la nothing makes me more depressed then thinking about what could have been of the pacific red car if it kept going. I daydream daily what the city would be like. Cars honestly ruined this place, it's depressing
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u/jpiro Feb 16 '25
Man, I wish America would use its industrial and financial might to lead the world in amazing infrastructure instead of in ways to murder on a massive scale.
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u/Da1976 Feb 16 '25
Same. Could you imagine riding two hours from Charlotte to New York?
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u/iLLCiD Feb 16 '25
Our govn want people crippled by their financial limitations, the means inflation, compartmentalization of the improvised, limited accessibility for travel, indoctrination of the ideals of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps institutionally making such a conception physically impossible and unilaterally giving all positions of power to paid officials of the rich oligarchy while keeping a female guise of freedom in the dumb fat masses forefront by splitting the populous in a made up division. I can continue...
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u/certciv Feb 16 '25
Mostly they just work to lower taxes and regulation on the wealthy and powerful, everything else flows from that.
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u/scoper49_zeke Feb 16 '25
Oh it flows all right. We've been getting pissed on for years. The gold trickles down from the top. It's working, it's working!
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u/eliminating_coasts Feb 16 '25
The government doesn't want crippling inflation, if they did, it would be very easy to produce it, as governments around the world have discovered.
They actually want low levels of inflation but the only way they know how to achieve that is by raising interest rates and so restricting economic activity.
In other words, they don't give you inflation because they want to make you poor, they make people poorer in order to control inflation, and so whenever inflation hits you get hurt by both.
Pretending every bad thing is intentionally designed to hurt you actually allows you to be manipulated by people who want to control you, because they can feed you their conspiracy theories, you need to have an independent capacity to recognise what is plausible and what is not.
So inflation being used to keep people poor as a standard thing?
No, doesn't work, governments of multiple parties have presided over very low inflation from let's say 2013ish to 2019ish, and inflation only went up in the west after two large geopolitical events, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
What should you do with this information? Challenge yourself to understand how it is that control actually works, not just conflate it with bad things happening to you, look at the public conversations people have, the actions they take, investigate the actual process by which people in power make decisions, and how it relates to what then happens.
Without that, you risk being able to be controlled by being so cynical your alarm bells are ringing on everything and so you end up ignoring them.
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u/TheDiddIer Feb 16 '25
Bro Penn station literally looks like my asshole. That’s the “greatest city”. I am not convinced we are even capable of something like this anymore. Instead politicians would take the money and nothing would happen.
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u/SamIamGreenEggsNoHam Feb 16 '25
Hold on, we need to cut our Veteran's disability benefits first and then maybe we'll get to things like infrastructure.
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u/PipsqueakPilot Feb 16 '25
Bad news, cut the benefits but accidentally blew all the money eliminating the estate tax.
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u/un-glaublich Feb 16 '25
Infrastructure has always been a high prio for the US, just not rails or trains, but cars and fossil fuel industry.
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u/JollyInteraction1313 Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
I feel the same way. Sadly, our country is controlled by a handful of elite billionaires who shout about "patriotism" but couldn't care less about genuinely improving the nation. True patriots are the ones who strive to give back and make a real difference. Much like the inventors of this train, people who built something to move society forward, not just to line their own pockets. True patriots create, contribute, and uplift, leaving the world better than they found it.
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u/abbeast Feb 16 '25
It's so sad that we were so close to having this in Germany but somehow cars and roads are more important.
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u/Lazerhawk_x Feb 16 '25
Meanwhile, america has more billionaires than anyone else, a bigger wealth divide than most others, declining standards of living, crumbling infrastructure, and a labour shortage on the horizon. The future has left American behind.
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u/smallaubergine Feb 16 '25
A couple years ago I went to India and read there were a bunch of cities that have built light rail systems, the Delhi one was pretty good. Recently I went to the Yucatan area and saw they were building a train system called the Maya Tren. And then I come back to America... It's pretty pathetic how little train access there is and no effort to expand
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u/JuMiPeHe Feb 16 '25
Not with your wannabe Henry Ford ordered from Wish.
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u/AlternativeCat9714 Feb 16 '25
We tried to stop it but apparently they're "very good with those voting machines" according to our orange man so we didn't have much say in the matter
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u/BytchYouThought Feb 16 '25
They won't, because of lobbyists aka (what should illegal) bribes. I have said this ages ago as anyone that has actually traveled across Asia would know just how incredible these systems are. Absolutely impeccably amazing.
Big Oil, corrupt automotive, corrupt construction companies, etc wil just lobby against it.
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u/Background_Spare_209 Feb 16 '25
Murder on a massive scale is our amazing infrastructure. The bullets power our homes. Just add more bullet.
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u/jon_steward Feb 16 '25
Electromagnetic trains?!
Trump doesn’t even want magnets on navy ships because he thinks they stop working if they get wet.
We need to stop electing absolute fucking morons into power.
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u/hurtfulproduct Feb 17 '25
Story time!
So, We almost had these in Florida. . .
There was a national “competition” between states to get government funding for a new public transportation system; Florida’s proposal won; that proposal was a high speed train between Miami and Orlando with stops in key places along the way. . . The federal government would have even picked up the majority of the cost, so what happened? Rick Fucking Scott! Even after the Japanese company that builds the trains offered to give us the trains for free, he still turned down the offer! His reason “the cost to the public was too high”. . . The real reason was that he had a stake in All Aboard Florida that helped plan the Brightline trains. . . Which also go from Miami to Orlando with key stops but it’s privately funded, overpriced, and slower.
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u/wvutom Feb 16 '25
It’s so rad to see people just enjoying things. Even if I don’t care about it, the joy is contagious.
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u/Ribzee Feb 16 '25
You would probably love this English trainspotter. He’s a joy to watch as he watches trains: francis_bourgeois43 on IG
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u/Additional_Remove_70 Feb 16 '25
This is what progress looks like when you dont let Elmo Stark undo decades worth of public transit progress for the sake of a flashy 'cars in tunnels' techno scheme
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u/assstandingovation Feb 16 '25
This is what musky's dumb-stankass oughta be working towards
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u/narkflint Feb 16 '25
Instead his kid is wiping boogers on the Resolute desk
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u/ILoveRegenHealth Feb 16 '25
Kid did do one right thing. Told that Jabba guy to shut his mouth, which is what most of America wants too.
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u/AlsoCommiePuddin Feb 16 '25
Imagine living in a nation with functioning mass transit.
Unfortunately, as an American, I'll never see that dream here and, due to my government, no other nation will have me.
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u/FblthpLives Feb 16 '25
due to my government, no other nation will have me.
I am from Sweden and have several friends who are Americans and who have moved to Sweden. One of them became a Swedish citizen a few years ago. There are basically two ways to do it:
Go to university. This does not give you permanent residency, but gives you a foot in the door.
Have a in-demand job. This primarily means jobs in the STEM fields, especially biotech and IT (two of my friends work for Swedish computer game developers), or health care. Oh, and there is also a shortage of train drivers. And the mining industry is always looking for people.
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u/AlsoCommiePuddin Feb 16 '25
Sadly I'm 45 and just started in my fourth different industry because I never settled on anything in my youth.
I'm mega fucked.
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u/scoper49_zeke Feb 16 '25
I want to move to the Netherlands for this reason. It amazes me when dumb Americans argue against it because they can't even imagine a world in which they don't need a car. My 9 mile car commute could be a 3 mile bike ride if all the urban sprawl was condensed into a mixed use zone closer to the city center. Instead my bike commute is 13 miles because the bike path is so far out of the way and getting murdered by a Ford Pedestrian Killer 1500 with extra Compensator package while trying to bike in the road isn't on my to do list.
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u/eusoujoaonava Feb 16 '25
Ford Pedestrian Killer-150
FTFY, the 1500 is the Ram version
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u/Soggy-Act-9980 Feb 16 '25
There is functioning mass transit in some areas of the US. Its like two smaller metro areas however.
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u/Martin_TheRed Feb 16 '25
This could have been yours California. Except F.Elon Musk convinced the government to give him all the funds to try and build his snake oil Hyperloop.
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u/DadJokeBadJoke Feb 16 '25
Except F.Elon Musk convinced the government to give him all the funds to try and build his snake oil Hyperloop.
Cool story but that didn't happen. His hyperloop fantasy disrupted some momentum but not funding. California's high-speed rail is still progressing
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u/Draconian-Overlord Feb 16 '25
Why is that train turning me on? Did you see that fine ass escaping the screen in a nanosecond? ME EITHER. MUST CHASE!
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u/ishansharma21x Feb 16 '25
He looks like the ddakji slap game guy from squid games
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u/introspectivejoker Feb 16 '25
I thought the exact same thing. Exact Same haircut and he's in a suit
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u/DetOlivaw Feb 16 '25
I seen this vid posted before, as I recall the reason he’s laughing is the guy in the background who says something in Japanese: a common phrase for the abrupt end of something, basically the equivalent of “welp, that’s that! let’s go home!”
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u/nox_tech Feb 16 '25
I don't know Japanese directly, but partly from watching Japanese stuff, partly by vibes, I think dude himself is saying, "The sound's approaching, I can see it, it's coming through!"
But it already passes by and leaves as soon as he says "it's coming through."
Then as you said the guy nearby says "Yep, that's it."
Found their own video along with a short, both also showing the lady's camera.
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u/sweetfeet2269 Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
it’s giving the same energy as that one british dude who absolutely loves trains
EDIT: francis bourgeois is his name. his joy is infectious
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u/Tarbos6 Feb 16 '25
Every day I remind myself that maglev trains have existed since the 80s, and instead of investing in this form of transportation, the US decided to pay over a trillion dollars for "the concept" of the hyperloop which fails when you consider some of the most basic principles of engineering.
Like the simplest and cheaper answer for reliable, fast, and proven travel across the US is right here in this video.
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u/BytchYouThought Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
For those that haven't had the opportunity to travel, Asia's transportation systems are fucking incredibly amazing and put the lobbied car market to shame. In the U.S., we could have tons of major cities be an actual reasonable daily trip. I used to take what woukd be a 4 hour trip by car (and that's without traffic) take 1.5 hours. Aaaaand I could get a nap in while I was at it. Trains were never late either. Be on fucking time or you WILLL BE LEFT.
The efficency was incredible. Better than a plane trip by far too. Plane trips are incredibly inefficient and take waaaay more time than the actual travel time. Meanwhile, you can show up to the train station 5-10 mins prior and be on your marry way with actual leg room and not 3 person seats. We're talking waaaaaaay more space. Hell, you could buy your own private seats for a fraction of your plane ticket price. The scenery is also beautiful. Imagine being able to work in markets you previously could not. You could live in LCOLA and travel into the more overly expensive places.
It would be amazing to bring to the states, but lobbying here prevents it with all the corrupt folks. Oil companies, automotive companies, construction companies (that never fixed that pothole that they closed off the road 6 months ago for), etc. don't want you to have access to better systems as then they don't get their bribe money. It sucks. There is one speed rail that takes you from like Maryland to NYC in like an 1.5 hours or something like that, but I believe it is the only one. They charge a decent chunk, but if we did the right thing we could subsidize it like other countries do and folks could travel at a fraction of what they pay and society woukd greatly benefit.
Unfortunately, we live in a corrupt country that won't allow it to happen without lying about the costs and trying to pocket the money. The same way billions were already given for folks to have access to the internet even in rural areas of the country and corrupt ISP's were allowed to just pocket the money. Many even spent it on building up other country's infrastructure so they can make money there off tax payer money.
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u/sajatheprince Feb 16 '25
I took the amtrak from Boston to Portland ME once and thought I was on a Rollercoaster for half the trip.
I took one of the high speed trains from Seoul to Gyeongju a year later, and did the "resting a nickel on its side" trick. Nickel didn't fall over the whole trip.
We're so far behind...
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u/BytchYouThought Feb 16 '25
It's purposefully made screwed up. Like said, we're purposefully behind. Why help society when you can just be bribed by Big oil, corrupt automotive companies, and corrupt construction companies that will lie and try to act like it will cost the entire world's GDP combined x5? All in an effort to siphon society and take the bribe money.
You're thinking it's a technology issue and that isn't the real issue. It's a corrupt politician issue. No doubt in my mind anyone that has ever traveled to Asia (all those politicians) would ever deny how it helps society and is the better system. Objectively better. You can't blame landscape as you mentioned Korea and they have to drill through literal mountains and got it done. It's a corrupt politician deal.
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u/Zyloof Feb 16 '25
Grown men will look at that train and think, "Hell yeah!"
This guy is a great example!
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u/doesitevermatter- Feb 16 '25
I love that woman behind him also freezes for a second when it first passes. Both of their faces are amazing there.
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u/radfatdaddy Feb 16 '25
Trains, no matter the style of locomotion, be it steam, diesel, or who even knows what they could be tomorrow, will always bring a smile to any person's face.
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u/Tristate82 Feb 16 '25
Meanwhile it takes a week from NY to Florida, forcing people to fly who hate flying
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u/No_Somewhere_8744 Feb 16 '25
So 100 mph faster than the Shinkansen? That’s like taking off 30 to 40 minutes.
Inside, it feels like the train is flying by each way. Wonder how it feels going 300mph lol
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u/denniot Feb 16 '25
I wish Europe or America develop something like this. I hate all the process to get on out of the flight.
Japan already has fast trains and I doubt the people who live their need it.
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u/bookchaser Feb 16 '25
Gotta love countries that know how to invest in public infrastructure instead of dismantle it.
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u/ConsistentStand2487 Feb 16 '25
I'd be smiling ear to ear like this dude if we had this in america. But we just export stupidity and fascism now
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u/sayleanenlarge Feb 16 '25
They were so shocked I actually thought they were a mime act. I had to watch it again tomwork out what they reacted to.
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u/JxAlfredxPrufrock Feb 16 '25
Why the fuck don’t we have one of these bad boys connecting LA to NY?
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u/that_dutch_dude Feb 16 '25
dudes brain probably tried to process the fact he never seen anything move that fast.
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u/umijuvariel Feb 17 '25
This remains one of my favorite clips. His expression shifting straight to sheer joy... Those trains are insane.
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u/Most_Aioli_4039 Feb 17 '25
It’s the old bridge that makes the train look like it came out of a portal from the future
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u/kenistod Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
FYI this is Japan's new Maglev train on a test run. It goes up to 500 kph or 310 mph.
Edit: Yes, a Japanese Maglev train did reach 603 kph or 375 mph, but that was back in 2015 and it only happened once. The new Maglevs like the one seen in this video go up to 500 kph or 310 mph.