Have you ever done, like…you know…butt stuff?
Nope.
Ok, just wondering. Have a fantastic day.
Thinking of going to Sweden, anything I should know, do, learn, bring etc before I come?
Edit: I’m American and don’t know Swedish. I am also a fan of food, so any swedish cuisine or multicultural stuff is nice.
Edit: related question, how is public transport like in Sweden and going across surrounding countries nearby?
Do before coming to Sweden?
Make sure you have spoken with you bank to make sure your debit/credit card works.
Learn?
Knowing basic local geography is always good. If you are planning on driving, study the road signs and rules
Bring?
Depends on the season, I have been in the same exact spot both in summer and in winter, in the summer it can be up to 34-35C, in the winter it can go down to -32-34C
Public transport is excellent, trains can easily take you to Norway or Denmark, we have regular ferries all over the Baltic sea, so you can easily get around.
Everyone will speak good english, though if you already know some german that will help you in the supermarkets.
Feel free to ask more specific questions
Ahem, pics!
While my Lumix S5 is only semi working, I do have my iPhone 12 mini:
Please enjoy this photo of my backpack on the seat in front of me
Here is a photo of my Lumix S5 on it’s tripod.
What about a photo from the outside?
Tuff tuff säger tåget!
Talk about good timing!
I just had the chance to take some photos and my Lumix AF decided to work!
Woooah, what a beauty, I love old vehicles.
This model of diesel multiple unit train was an old staple across the old narrow guage (891mm) train lines in Sweden.
Then when most of the lines were closed, these DMUs became like a staple train for herritage railroads.
Cool fact, thanks for sharing!
Aah a Spårvagn!
I lived beside the oldest Swedish combined post and railway station when I was a kid, we took the spårvagnen to the city from time to time. Once I went to the back end of it, as they had like a locomotive at both ends, and started playing with things (I was like 7). Got told to stop. Good memory.
Nope, not a spårvagn, a rälsbuss!
A Yp railbuss from the Y6 family built for a gauge of 891mm.
https://www.jarnvag.net/vagnguide/yp
This is on lennakatten, by Uppsala
Hah Jaa, rälsbuss var det ju, tack!
Kan inte ändra min post 🤷🏼♀️ försöker igen sen.
Are you sure it isn’t an old pirate ship from the 1800s?
Quite sure
What products do you shave with?
Bic razor!
see any white people?
This is Sweden, so yes.
How much was your ticket to ride?
I am a member of the railroad, so free
Neat, thanks!
What is the heritage railroad environment like in Sweden? Are these being run by the actual railroad owners, or by private groups over the railroads’ tracks?
Most herritage railroads has their own tracks, but there are herritage train societies that own spaces for locomotives and cars, but no track, and they arrange trips on the public tracks, this has allowed us to even have preserved electrical trains and locomotives, several of which are fitted with ATC to allow them to run all over Sweden.
Is it for fun, or is this train in actual service?
Both, herritage railroads are fun, and this is so long that it serves a local public transport need.
For me it is simply fun
Are you listening to Opeth’s classic concept album My Arms, Your Hearse while you navigate through their homeland?
I am afraid I don’t have any headphones with me, and I don’t want to be rude to the other passengers
Playing Opeth at full volume would not be rude.
Not playing Opeth at full volume would be rude.
I do believe that MYYH is not a concept album. Still life and The last will and testament is. But Opeth is never a bad thing to listen to
Do you often ride on trains?
Also, how would you describe the sound it makes on the tracks?
- Yes, though mostly on the beautiful Stockholm metro.
- ch-ch ch-cha, ch-ch ch-cha
- There’s !askmeanything@lemmy.ca
- Watch the railroad, not your electronic worldwide web communication device.
- Excellent, I’ll use that next time!
- The lights are on in the train, I can’t really see out the windows, my field communications device is all I have, oh and my Lumix S5 camera with 24-105mm f/4 lens that may have a broken AF
How warm is it? (Ig it’s summer if it were winter would it be cold?)
I am back home now, it was about 16c with a bit of windchill.
Those trains were blatantly copied by another Swedish company, and then that one was again blatantly copied by a Finnish company, leading to the models Dm6 and Dm7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR_Class_Dm7
Zero royalties paid!
Well, SJ, the government operator started with the Y6 family of DMUs for standard, 1435mm, track gauge, these were built by AJS, Hägglunds, Kalmar verkstad and Märstaverken.
Then Hilding Carlsson built the Yp variant (for narrow gauge 891mm) of the Y6 family.
…and then came Valmet with its Dm6.
And nobody paid anything for the intellectual property. The history of these railbuses is fascinating in how it’s a chain of betrayals.
