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   GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 17:56:36 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

   British online friend: "Saw a flying banana tonight. I only noticed because of the purple light shining upwards"

   Everyone: ???

   "We have track measurement trains. They run around, checking the tracks for faults, the power cables, etc

   They're bright yellow. So they're nicknamed the Flying Banana, as a joke on the Flying Scotsman

   Night time they have this blue laser that scans the overhead wires. It creates this giant glow you can see when it moves"

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     Bauzugkatze :blobcat_engineer: (zugkatze@norden.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 19:02:30 JST Bauzugkatze :blobcat_engineer:

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     @GreenSkyOverMe Banana :ablobcathappypaws:

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 21:32:04 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Niavy AFK :verified: :bearn:

     @niavy I don’t think so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Scotsman_(railway_service)

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     Niavy AFK :verified: :bearn: (niavy@masto.bike)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 21:32:05 JST Niavy AFK :verified: :bearn:

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     @GreenSkyOverMe
     Is the flying Scotsman a Monty Python joke?

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     Artha 🐲🏳️‍⚧️ (samerion@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 21:33:50 JST Artha 🐲🏳️‍⚧️

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     @GreenSkyOverMe Funny!

     Personally, I call the black-and-yellow service trains I have in my Minecraft world "bees". Called the last one "Andrena" (mining bee) because it's a driller train, haha

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     The Penguin of Evil (etchedpixels@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 21:34:24 JST The Penguin of Evil

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     @GreenSkyOverMe Japan has 'Doctor Yellow' for their maintenance train.

     Flying Banana was used as a nickname for all the high speed train units in their original livery long before the NMT, and that was a reference to 1930s use for GWR railcars

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     Jon Gilbert (jgilbert@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 21:45:18 JST Jon Gilbert

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     @GreenSkyOverMe the measure and maintenance trains on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines are similar; they're named "Doctor Yellow" :D

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     qwazix (qwazix@bananachips.club)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 22:26:57 JST qwazix

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     @GreenSkyOverMe why is it so long?

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Apr-2026 22:27:43 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • qwazix

     @qwazix Not sure, maybe this video someone else linked explains it, I haven't watched it https://youtu.be/BVa0TR7YByc

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     Ginkgo (giantginkgo@mstdn.party)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2026 01:42:14 JST Ginkgo

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     @GreenSkyOverMe I first thought you were talking about the original Flying Banana, the Piasecki/Boeing Vertol H-21 helicopter! Shame they didn’t have blue lasers…

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     woffs (woffs@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Apr-2026 14:22:22 JST woffs

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     @GreenSkyOverMe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j9ZDOJ6f0U