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    This Tangara has grown a nose at each end. Any guesses as to what that's for?
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    This Tangara has grown a nose at each end. Any guesses as to what that’s for?

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    5. Coolidge-egg on

      Our continued descent into ideocracy as remove all mechanisms for natural selection.

    6. 42SpanishInquisition on

      It’s to sniff the bums of other tangaras. Tangaras are obviously dogs.

    11. peppapony on

      DUCKGARA!!

      Edit: do you know what line they actually put them on? My son loves train and we actually haven’t seen a duckgara in the wild yet

    14. rockresy on

      My 16 year old tells me train surfing is refered to as:-

      Ridgeys or popping

      These nose bits are to stop ‘backons’

      Now you know the kids lingo if that helps…

    18. blueflash775 on

      I think the only disappointing thing is I would like to see them retractable. They are retracted and when they feel weight on the buffer they extend out.

    19. NicholeTheOtter on

      https://youtu.be/Jqov9Kg0MT8?si=IfWo2EQiE2mzbZYV

      It was designed and implemented in response to stupid teenagers train surfing and committing vandalism on the Tangara fleet, especially on the T4 Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line where they run every timetabled service. These train surfing incidents are mainly because Tangara couplers are more flat at the top and easier to stand on, unlike the more narrow ones seen on newer fleets like Waratahs.

      It’s even gotten to a point that the rear carriage of Tangara services on the T4 line are now locked off deliberately after 8:00pm on weekdays and 1:00pm on weekends, to stop them from breaking into the guards’ cab on the rear car.