I'm with Richard and Michael on the meter here. The poem is absolutely crammed with fascinating details, but the meter, as Dick said, is Procrustean--not quite fitting and sometimes painfully wrenching.
I'm thinking that a railway carriage would be better done with alternating between three dactyls and a macron and then three dactyls and a trochee, which is almost the meter which the piece starts with, but not quite. That would sound more like rattly train on unsound tracks.
Still, I really do like the details in the piece, which tells of something I'd never heard of before.
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