>>1159133For me, it's Amfleets and a toaster.
Nothing sums up the simultaneous highs and lows of American passenger rail quite like a string of utilitarian malaise-era stainless steel tubes (with windows intentionally made to be as small as gunslits so the dimly-lit passengers in them see as little of the urban decay that they're passing through as possible) running under 100 year old catenary as soviet-looking locomotive with the aerodynamics of a cube beats the atmosphere into submission as it blasts through the industrial blight of central New Jersey at over 120mph.
It's so coarse and shitty, and yet so brutishly effective.
