Rotterdam Centraal Station snow day (#0854)

There's a central trolley station at Centraal (rail) Station, if you look closely you can see another trolley on the right side of the picture. Though the chartreuse trolley is very obvious, what isn’t obvious is that it isn’t moving.

This was the day before I was flying out of Amsterdam to return to the states. I had always assumed that our (U.S.) lack of interest in maintaining infrastructure was why many U.S. cities are crippled by just a little snow – I quickly discovered that wasn’t just a U.S. problem. The trolleys here were backed up, apparently because the operators were having to get out and manually operate the switches.