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This post from Salon shows a video of a train that travels right through a market in Bangkok.

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October 19, 2007, 6:00 AM PDT

By Nate Berg


"Not only is the video of the train that shares its tracks with a Thai market conclusively not a fake, as one suspicious reader suggested last week, but thanks to the diligent efforts of How the World Works readers, I have subsequently been made privy to an additional wealth of detail about this remarkable railway."

Thursday, October 18, 2007 in Salon

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I love the variety of courses, many practical, and all richly illustrated. They have inspired many ideas that I've applied in practice, and in my own teaching. Mary G., Urban Planner

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