One morning the BART train had a problem

At Civic Center I stepped up into left side of the normally level with the platform train. Didn't think anything of it until we got to West Oakland when there was a terrible juddering sensation and the smell of burning plastic.

Because the car was riding askew, the rail by the door hit the platform edge and scraped the plastic edging.

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Note how low the door is

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Back to rights

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See the scraped paint? And note how the railing is not actually pulled free? It bent a little bit.

Within 10 minutes of us piling out onto the West Oakland platform, they had fired some little shock absorber jet things under the car and leveled it out.

A normal car for comparison

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Dinah from Kabalor

Author. Discardian. GM. Current project: creating an inclusive indie fantasy ttrpg https://www.patreon.com/kabalor

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