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まんぴつ proudly presents another Terribly Exciting document: what does it look like inside pikajuna?

First we take a look at the seats. They’re bluish with some simple decorative patterns, and they’re quite soft, much softer than the seats on modern InterCity and Pendolino trains. The plastic parts are brown. This is how they look like:

On the back of the seats there’s a storage slot for a tray which can be attached to the slots in the hand rests (the slots can be seen in the first photo). The seats also have a detachable pillow, a foot rest, and straps to hold magazines or such:

Over the seats there’s a shelf for storing luggage. The shelf, as well as the hooks for hanging clothes, are made of thick aluminium. The shelf and the arrangement of the seats (the rows on the left and right side face different directions) can be seen in the following picture:

The train cars have toilets, too. The mechanism of the old models used in the pikajuna trains is so simple that it has generated a saying “toimii kuin junan vessa” (“works like train toilet”). To empty the toilet you step on a pedal which opens a hatch and drops all the output you may have generated down on the rail. This sounds like something we Finns may have copied from our innovative Eastern neighbours.

Train cars also have doors. Previously they were also very simple, with sturdy metallic handle to open the lock and that’s it. Nowadays they have some kind of electrically controlled system which disallows opening of the door when the train is moving. There’s a green lamp which lights up when the door can be opened using the modern red plastic handle.