Looks like this is a Eurotram, a tram designed specifically for the local transportation company in Strasbourg. It’s funny that this is the tram’s name because it was built for a French city by an Italian manufacturer. When that manufacturer went bankrupt, a Swiss manufacturer continued them, then a German one, and then another German (but also Canadian, Bombardier) manufacturer. A truly European+ effort! They’re also used in Porto (Portugal) and Milan (Italy).

I think this photo was taken as the tram (F line, started in Place d’Islande and headed to Comtes) was about to enter the Broglie station. If I had to guess, the photographer stood a good bit away (maybe at the station) and used a lens with lots of magnification because a lot of what you can see in the background (yield signs on the right, railing of a bridge on the left) is decently far away from where the tram is. The edge of a stone building you can see at the right edge is probably part of the Strasbourg Opera House.

A very cool photo! The tram taking a slight turn makes it look dynamic and moving even without motion blur, and pulling the background in closer puts it in a much nicer-looking context than what you would see with your human eyes.

This looks so futuristic. The perfect lawn, the white, round-ish tram, and the neatly lined-up trees. I’d prefer to see more actual nature, wild flowers, bushes, etc, but it still looks cool.

A while ago, I talked about Pokemon with someone and we were getting a bit nostalgic about Gen 1 games. We talked about how there were all these rumours, like using strength on that one truck near the S.S. Anne to get Mew. When I mentioned that you could actually get Mew with this one glitch where you had to avoid fighting a specific trainer until you got Fly, then walk into that trainer’s field of view and so on, they were so surprised because they had never heard of that before. I really enjoyed that conversation :3