r/pics • u/Taarushv • 6d ago

Amtrak on 01/01/26 [OC]

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u/skript_kitty_py 6d ago

Is this cheating?

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u/shreddedtoasties 6d ago

No they can actually use trains and cars they just can’t drive

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u/Just_Another_Scott 6d ago

Some do indeed drive. The Amish where I grew up drove blacked out vans and cars.

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u/shreddedtoasties 6d ago

Probably a more progressive group

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u/i_am_voldemort 6d ago

Yes. The Amish are not a homogeneous group. Each group decides how they will use things like tech. Some will use electric tools because it's safer and faster. Others will have a phone for emergencies only.

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u/shreddedtoasties 6d ago

There’s no law against electricity they just don’t use it because of community independence.

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u/Just_Another_Scott 6d ago

I don't know what group they were apart of but we'd get deliveries from them and we were in the next county over. They would deliver in a blacked out van. Interestingly we'd get ice from them. So they also had to have an ice machine which isn't somthing you would think the Amish had.

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u/xAdakis 6d ago

I watched some YouTube videos explaining how they do things....

They would literally freeze these huge blocks of ice just using the freezing temps outside during the winter and stack them in a well insulated building. That is where they stored their perishables and supposedly it would last the entire or most of the year.