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xoxoxoBruce 08-12-2009 12:46 AM
Aug 12, 2009: Farmer's Market
 
Farmer's markets are wonderful. All those fruits, veggies, and sometimes flowers, honey or dairy, fresh from the farm.

This one is in Thailand, Samut Songkhram province, but can you spot a difference?

http://cellar.org/2009/market1.jpg

Railroad tracks right down the middle make a good defined path for shoppers...
and the eight express trains a day that use these tracks. :eek:

Quote:
Every day in the Thai province of Samut Songkhram, about 70 km southwest of Bangkok, a unique market is held whose vendors need feet as quick as their minds. Why? Because much of the market is located directly on a set of operational railway tracks. Eight times daily, a train runs through without care for stopping, sending vendors and visitors to action stations before business as usual resumes.
That must keep everybody on their toes... or lose them.

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SPUCK 08-12-2009 02:27 AM
OH CRAP HERE COMES THE TRAIN!!!!




http://cellar.org/2008/firetrain.jpg

Laurie Henderson 08-12-2009 06:20 AM
Grilled veggies, anyone??

spudcon 08-12-2009 06:46 AM
If I was there, some of them veggies would be put on the rails, just before the train comes.:D

capnhowdy 08-12-2009 06:48 AM
This would never work in the lawsuit-happy U.S.A.

Shawnee123 08-12-2009 07:29 AM
:DNo, some drunken dumbass would stand in front of the train and then sue somebody while they scramble to find their missing body parts.

Sundae 08-12-2009 07:29 AM
There's a section in one of Michael Palin's travel documentaries that reminds me of this a little. He's travelling between Chile and Bolivia, and the train is running very, very late.

When they get to La Paz, they have to arrange for cars and people to be moved off the track - the trains are so notoriously bad that the railway line is not treated with any kind of concern, it's just part of the street.

Not quite as dangerous as here of course!

Degrees 08-12-2009 08:41 AM
Mmmmm. Twice mashed potatoes.

Trilby 08-12-2009 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Degrees (Post 587402)
Mmmmm. Twice mashed potatoes.
:lol:

birdclaw 08-12-2009 10:36 AM
Finally a way to "train" your vegetables. :headshake

dar512 08-12-2009 11:36 AM
Some of those veggies can be tough, so remember to choo-choo your food. :D

dmg1969 08-12-2009 02:25 PM
Wouldn't that make all of the veggies.......squash? :D

Gravdigr 08-12-2009 03:09 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by birdclaw (Post 587418)
Finally a way to "train" your vegetables. :headshake
Pulling a train on a vegetable is the one of the most heinous things I can imagine. (And I have one helluva imagination!!)

Quote:
Originally Posted by dar512 (Post 587435)
Some of those veggies can be tough, so remember to choo-choo your food. :D
:lol2:

newtimer 08-12-2009 05:14 PM
They have their market here for the benefit of tourists who like to come and take photos of their market. Otherwise, why wouldn't they just move to one side or the other and get off the freakin' tracks?!?

Shawnee123 08-12-2009 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by dmg1969 (Post 587452)
Wouldn't that make all of the veggies.......squash? :D
:p


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