Video: Thai train runs through market

By Budget Travel
October 3, 2012

Watch as workers in Thailand pull their stalls out of the way to allow a slow train pass through a market. The workers then slide the the stalls back into place over the tracks. [40 seconds.]

[via Todd Lappin's video, originally on Street Use]

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