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The Bamboo Express

There is only one passenger train service left in Cambodia. It runs from the capitol,Phnom Penh to Cambodia's 'second city' Battambang, - the trains runs once a week. The official railways survived decades of civil war and sabotage by the Khmer Rouge, but all those years without maintenance have taken their toll. The lack of a regular train service on the tracks has empowered entrepreneurial Cambodians to get into the transportation business. They have built vehicles powered by motorcycle or lawn mower engines that run on the rails, skimming across the rail bed just a few inches off the ground. The passengers sit on bamboo mats placed on top of the wheels - hence their name 'bamboo trains.'

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