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[Nokiamies]

On 10/23/2025 at 9:20 PM, EliraFriesnan said:

Strange!!!!!! I always thought Finnish goods were one of the best, I almost always buy Oras taps, for example. And we have one of the best trains. Actually, I'm very tempted to not only ignore Amazon forever, I want to depart and isolate from the internet, especially now, with no D.Draker around.

That used to be case back in day before Valtion Rautatiet/VR (Goverment Railroads) was turned into VR Group company. Since then price been going and reliability down. If you happen to live outside big zones after retirement of express trains and most of regional trades aside from those horrible DM12 you wont get anywhere, you pay intercity premium for intercity train going at express train schedule. Main selling point of intercity was that it would stop only at major cities while express train did on others and regional train did stops express train did not.

problem is not so much about trains it is more about buying trains that are not suitable for harsh Finnish climate then doing own modification trying make them not fail, in case of DM12 add casing to keep ice out, but never clean then so leaves would build up and well these pictures tells enough...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Dm12_4412_14.5.2020_Otkes.png

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Dm12_4414_5.6.2021_Otkes.png

that train was not even made by Finnish, it was made by Skoda. We did solid trains like DV12, DR16 or for commute traffic DM6/DM7 "lättähattu" but that was back when we had our own engineering.

[EliraFriesnan]

12 hours ago, Nokiamies said:

Skoda.

I'm not surprised as Czech Republic is well known for its mediocre (at best) goods. On the other hand, that poor quality mass products fit Amazon very well, they can buy it for cheap and then inflate the price.

 

[EliraFriesnan]

12 hours ago, Nokiamies said:

We did solid trains like DV12, DR16 or for commute traffic DM6/DM7 "lättähattu" but that was back when we had our own engineering.

You can always purchase Swiss Crocs directly, avoiding Amazon. Suitable for your weather. Ge 4/4 is still available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_(locomotive)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_(locomotive)#/media/File:Ge_6-6_I_407_Krokodil.jpeg