Vendors and shoppers must periodically make way for trains at this unusual Thai market.
AtlasObscura: The Maeklong Railway is only 3 feet wide, but it has 5-10 feet of clearance on both sides, giving merchants a tight but workable space in which to set up their tented displays. Market stalls line a 300-meter stretch of urban railroad, selling everything one might expect to find in any Thai market: fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, herbs and spices, clothing, flowers, and tempting street food. Six times a day, however, the hubbub has to momentarily pause in deference to a train rolling through its midst. read more
Unusual tasting salad Bính…
Whut’s in it?
Brake dust and axel grease.
can you visualize the carnage that would ensue if the train derailed?
Doesn’t look like a station, flush all you want.
There is video of the process on the internet – very interesting
I have been there. Very neat place to see the resolve of the vendors to stay in their market and accommodate the train (which came later). Very smelly place in 95 degree heat.
Here is a video that I made of the trip. The Maeklong Market is toward the end.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOK3hDJX5A
well that’s fun to read /s
“The is only 3 feet wide”
It’s ingenious and hilarious, the road way keeps an isle open for pedestrians to shop in the shade and when a train comes down the tracks, the stalls move back away, on tracks.
See the unbroken horizontal lines, tracks.
Aisle, damn homophones.
Here’s one of many videos from Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxeu0dzNUiY
I wanna see a Japanese hi-speed train rip through there.
It could be Fifth Avenue, NYC, just a short 100 years down the line.
Just came all the way
from Taipei today
Bangoks pissing rain
and I’m going blind again
and haven’t seen My gal
for fifteen thousand miles
“Edit much ?”
WTF are you talking about?