stackyFACTSYou can't exactly hand-wash a twelve-carriage underground metro. Instead, railway depots feature comically oversized, heavily mechanized drive-through wash systems where massive spinning brushes aggressively scrub the accumulated grime, brake dust, and unidentifiable subterranean slime off the rolling stock.
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