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When traveling becomes an odyssey: dirty and infested trains
While in the Far West the danger people had to face while traveling by train was being attacked by Indians, the risks that contemporary Italian travelers run are certainly less spectacular, sometimes more insidious, apparently less dangerous. However, they are certainly the cause of strain and rage, at best, and of rushes to the hospital, if the train where you travel has not been sanitized and disinfested in an appropriate way.
The problems of travelers, indeed, do not only derive from the frequent delays that oblige them to postpone meetings, to miss a lesson, to go to work late; problems are also caused by the scarce cleanness of many wagons. Dirty seats, toilettes that you'd better not enter in, accumulated dirt: to check the status of the seat of an Italian train before you sit down is certainly a good habit, but this would still be tolerable if you had at least the certainty that you are not assaulted by some kind of insects. Even recently news have reported the cases of people that are attacked by fleas or lice in trains. It seems unbelievable, but even nowadays in Italy you might travel in trains infested by various insects. The latest case to be reported was that of a passenger on the train Padua – Milan, who in April had to face a swarm of lice that had came out of a hole in the headrest: due to a number of bites, the passenger had to get off the train and go to the hospital, and was able to leave again the next day. This case was not denied by Trenitalia, which still assured that that train had been disinfested, like all the other trains that travel far and wide in Italy. As the company highlighted, everybody is allowed to get on the trains, with no distinction based on the level of personal hygiene, thus it is not possible to check that all passengers are not bringing undesired passengers on board. However, in this case it is also true that the hole the lice that attacked the woman came out from could not but be noticed by the people who had disinfested the train.
However, besides these extreme cases, for which we might give the benefit of the doubt to those who are supposed to guarantee as safe as possible journeys and a satisfying cleaning service, and considering only the level of cleanliness that characterizes Italian trains, the situation is not so good. A survey carried out in 2008 by Codacons showed that about 38% of Intercity trains had dirty seats and 18% had out of order toilettes, while a very recent survey carried out by Nas on some trains traveling through Lamezia Terme following the report of a tick bite in an Intercity train has shown that there are irregular conditions of cleanliness and hygiene, with dirt and excessive wear of the furniture.
Traveling should be a pleasure, but these days you are lucky when it does not turn into an odyssey.
About the Author
This article was written by Francesca Tessarollo with support from imprese pulizia Milano. For more information, please visit imprese pulizie Milano or pulizie provincia di Milano.
At a wagon train speed of about 15 miles a day , about how long would that trip take?
It's an answer like you're in the year around 1860,American Trails West and during the Manifest Destiny also including Indians at those times.
That depends how far you have to go. To the the answer in days, you would divide the number of miles you have to go by 15.
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Wondering Whether To Weather Your Model Railroad Trains?
First of all, some of you may be reading this wondering what weathering model railroad trains is, so I'll start with an explanation. Weathering is basically the process of making something look old and used and is a technique applied to model railways to make them look more realistic. In the real world, nothing stays shiny and new for long. Trains will pick up dust and dirt as they travel around, paint will get scratched, metalwork rusts over time and so many model train builders will want to recreate these looks on their models.
Of course, this isn't for everyone and there are those that wouldn't dream of damaging or devaluing their prized locomotives in any way. For years, model railway trains have been collector's items and some are incredibly valuable. However, other people look at value in a different way and ask what the value is on a personal level. Not in terms of money, but the value it will give you in satisfaction. Now that may sound like a massive cliché, but value does mean different things to different people.
For some people, creating a perfectly life like model railroad scene will hold far greater value than watching their shiny locomotives going round the track, so you have to ask yourself which group you fall into. The good thing is that now, it is possible to pick up model railroad trains fairly cheaply on Ebay now, and you can use these for you weathered wagons and keep the collectors items separately. This way you can have the best of both worlds if you so want.
If you've decided that you do want to weather your model railway trains (and it doesn't just have to be the trains, this technique can be applied to anything to add a level of realness to it), then there are a number of ways to go about doing this and plenty of guides which are available to help you with this. There are also a lot of specialist products on the market too. However, you can also just use a lot of things you already have for you railway scenery, or would find around the house.
A couple of things I want to mention here are that if you new to weathering, always practice on a cheap train first. This way, if it doesn't go to plan, you haven't ruined on of your favourite trains! Also, rather than trying to get it right first time, build your weathering up in layers. This means that you can work out what works and what doesn't and is also actually more realistic too. In the world, a train carriage doesn't just go from clean to dirty straight away, but the filth and grime builds up over a period of time. Therefore, applying lots of layers will help to create this effect better.
Finally, one important thing to remember when weathering you trains is to make sure that you are doing it for the environment in which your model railway trains will be running. For example, if you have build a 1950s recreation, then your train won't have modern day graffiti tags on the side of them, whereas if you have built an inner city New York scene, the trains might well do. Another example would be a modern passenger train is going to be less dirty than a freight wagon as they are cleaned more often.
A great tip that I picked up for helping to get this right is to collect photographs from the particular scene or time your model railway trains are meant to be set in and then base you weathering on this research. As with anything to do with your model railroad and as I always say, the more research that you do, the better.
I hope you now have a greater understanding of the model train weathering. For more model railway trains tips, visit my website by clicking the link below.
About the Author
Tim McCarthy is a model railway enthusiast with many years experience in the field of model trains. For further information on model railways, including more on model railroad trains, please feel free to head over to http://www.modelrailwaytrainstips.com/model-railway-trains-introduction .
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