>>light commuter rail system of Ba Sing Se was wheelless to begin with;
>>I suspect trains with wheels would have been more of a
>>surprise.
>
>Fire Nation trains of the period had wheels and steam engines. The Ba
>Sing Se trains had stone tram cars and dudes at the back pushing. In
>neither case are you guys going to convince me that that's an
>experiential base which would make a person already battling
>displacement shock go, "Oh, ho hum, just a train, waiting to be
>impressed" in response to a 24th-century maglev shinkansen. It's just
>not happening. :)
>

Her best try at rationalizing it would probably come out as, "Where did you find that many metalbenders," followed shortly by, "Where are you hiding the metalbenders?!"

Peter Eng
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