In Cambodia They'll Build You A Train Out Of Bamboo

Cambodia is littered with old bits of infrastructure from the French occupation and colonization, including a whole bunch of train tracks. Many of the trains are long gone, but that doesn't mean the tracks are out of use.

According to the description on this video, the trains are held together by nothing more than the weight of the components and sheer momentum. I'm going to go ahead and say that maybe the prayers of the occupants on this "train" might as well be helping as well.

You know, except for the entire lack of any safety precautions that would perhaps stop your head from popping right off your shoulders in the inevitable massive accident, that looks like a lot of fun.

It's remarkable the tracks are in as good a shape as they are. A SEPTA line near me has been abandoned for 30 years, and there's no way you'd be able to get anything down it for any length without running into a fallen tree or urban mining damage.

These tracks have to have been abandoned for at least a few years longer than that - probably since Pol Pot decided anyone who could read an analog watch was an intellectual and had all the train conductors executed.