Such a turnout on both sides of a single track is intended to provide a work-around in case two trains, going in opposite directions, encounter each other on this stretch of track. If I am correct in that surmise, then the above image makes no sense.
Could it be an AI joke?
I tried to search it but got no information. Saw pictures of other sort of similar tracks, but not the same, and the pages were in other languages.
If this is a siding, it’s the shortest I’ve seen, and the tracks don’t seem to connect to either side, not even to switch. It doesn’t look like you could get one car… or engine maybe?…onto that short curve.
It looks like an electric power line in the middle, with insulators, and a different sort of ties from anything I know.
It also looks very narrow. I’m guessing it’s some kind of electric rail system. If it weren’t out on a mountainside I’d think it was a ride, like at Disneyland.
But I know nothing… pure guesswork… so now maybe one of you train guys can (please) tell me what it actually is.
This is a cable operated incline railway. What you are looking at is the passing section halfway up the hill. The cable you see between the rails is connected to the car further down the slope, you can’t see the other cable as the car it is attached to is further up the slope and hasn’t reached us yet.
The turnouts have sprung blades and will be biased to one side. The one at the bottom of the loop will be biased to the opposite loop from the one at the top of the loop.
The winding house is at the top of the hill.
There are versions of these railways where there are three rails, with both directions sharing the centre rail. This makes the passing loop simpler as there are no moving parts, but at the cost of having to lay the third rail all the way along the route. You mainly only see that type on shorter lines.
Wow! I want to go on that trip!
It’ll never happen, but it looks great.
The camera being off center confused me at first… But of course the person filming isn’t sitting dead center in the front of the first car!
In the first video, at least on those rails I can see the switches where the train is going to go… though there is a bit of excess track past the switching point that must have some purpose I’m not catching.
I’m not finished with the second one, but I’ll come back and watch the rest.
I couldn’t find much information, but on only one site, somebody commented that this was in Morocco, and a group of disability advocates had painted the stairs in protest of the lack of accommodation.
It could be true… or somebody’s idea of a joke, since I didn’t see that said elsewhere.
Kinda glad this reappeared, cos I didn’t finish looking it up last week.
Image search identified the structure as the USS Recruit.
This is what Wikipedia says about it…
“USS Recruit, also known as the Landship Recruit, was a wooden mockup of a dreadnought battleship constructed by the United States Navy in Manhattan in New York City, as a recruiting tool and training ship during the First World War.
Commissioned as if it were a normal vessel of the U.S. Navy and manned by a crew of trainee sailors, Recruit was located in Union Square from 1917 until the end of the war. In 1920, with the reduced requirements for manning in the post-war Navy, Recruit was decommissioned and dismantled, having recruited 25,000 sailors into Navy service.”
I hadn’t refreshed the page so didn’t see your post before I submitted my own. Plus for part of that time I was searching for the picture I knew I had somewhere……
Dancing sailors. Reminds me of a joke from an old boss who was in the navy. Something about submarine service – where 200 single men go to sea, and 100 couples return.
I didn’t live quite that far north, but I can remember as a high school kid walking to school in the dark, and walking home in the dark. For PE class, they often took us outside for some sun. And hockey. Or show shoes. Or cross country skiing. I’m so glad to be back in normal space.
Tonight, at dinner (Mom’s birthday – she’s 92 tomorrow) the little tablet on the table with the menu and stuff had a trivia question: What bird can’t fly? I said fried chicken. Hey, it was a restaurant…what did you expect me to be thinking about? I didn’t bother checking the tablet to see if I was right, because, well, you know, fried chicken can’t fly, amiright?
And yeah, lots of birds can’t fly, fried chickens among them. Ostriches, and their relatives, like emus and kiwis, penguins, and even probably that chicken before it was fried.
Modern poultry raising produces chickens and turkeys that are too heavy for their wings to lift, especially at the young age that they reach marketable size.
Ask a dumb question…. they should expect …ok, I don’t want to say a dumb answer……. a smart aleck.
Searching for the image, so I could find it full size, at least half the ones I saw were cropped, and some were on “respectable”(in their fashion) newspaper or puzzle sites (as opposed to random blogs, Pinterest, and Facebook pages.)
Someone like Nighthawks just looking to post it for entertainment can’t be expected to instantly solve it just to make sure it’s intact…
It’s a reasonable expectation to think you wouldn’t need to… But you’d think a publisher would check.
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Precision flying.
And precision photography.
I know it’s not, but kinda looks like two birds cutting a slit across the sky.
It sure does. Thanks for pointing it out.
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1987, this time.
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:’o(
Seems very odd, looking at this in juxtaposition with the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade.
Both in November, too…. only six days apart.
Macy’s offered to cancel the parade… reportedly the Kennedy family wanted it to go on. Some of the floats were partially draped in black.
Happened on Mom’s 30th birthday. One she can’t forget.
My sister’s birthday, too.
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When the woman turns to look at him, he also turns his head to see what she’s looking at.
Cats are curious creatures. And they’re pretty curious too.
???
Why are they not in the truck?
Aww, where’s the fun in that?
They don’t even look particularly concerned.
“We’re professionals…”
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Such a turnout on both sides of a single track is intended to provide a work-around in case two trains, going in opposite directions, encounter each other on this stretch of track. If I am correct in that surmise, then the above image makes no sense.
Could it be an AI joke?
I tried to search it but got no information. Saw pictures of other sort of similar tracks, but not the same, and the pages were in other languages.
If this is a siding, it’s the shortest I’ve seen, and the tracks don’t seem to connect to either side, not even to switch. It doesn’t look like you could get one car… or engine maybe?…onto that short curve.
It looks like an electric power line in the middle, with insulators, and a different sort of ties from anything I know.
It also looks very narrow. I’m guessing it’s some kind of electric rail system. If it weren’t out on a mountainside I’d think it was a ride, like at Disneyland.
But I know nothing… pure guesswork… so now maybe one of you train guys can (please) tell me what it actually is.
This is a cable operated incline railway. What you are looking at is the passing section halfway up the hill. The cable you see between the rails is connected to the car further down the slope, you can’t see the other cable as the car it is attached to is further up the slope and hasn’t reached us yet.
The turnouts have sprung blades and will be biased to one side. The one at the bottom of the loop will be biased to the opposite loop from the one at the top of the loop.
The winding house is at the top of the hill.
There are versions of these railways where there are three rails, with both directions sharing the centre rail. This makes the passing loop simpler as there are no moving parts, but at the cost of having to lay the third rail all the way along the route. You mainly only see that type on shorter lines.
Not the same place, but here’s an example of a similar passing loop in operation. I’ve been on this tramway.
Great Orme Tramway passing loop.
Here’s the full tramway, which is split up into two sections.
Wow! I want to go on that trip!
It’ll never happen, but it looks great.
The camera being off center confused me at first… But of course the person filming isn’t sitting dead center in the front of the first car!
In the first video, at least on those rails I can see the switches where the train is going to go… though there is a bit of excess track past the switching point that must have some purpose I’m not catching.
I’m not finished with the second one, but I’ll come back and watch the rest.
“ though there is a bit of excess track past the switching point that must have some purpose I’m not catching “
I think you probably mean the extra frogs that allow the cable to cross the path of the rail without having to rub over the top?
Since I have no idea what that means… Probably so!
😄
Kinda noisy.
I like the noise of trains.
Go figure.
Old trams/trains/cars/lorries generally are. Sound proofing has improved over the years.
Thank you!
It’s 1am…I’m falling asleep… I’ll be better able to absorb all this tomorrow.
But it’s cable, not electricity… So those aren’t insulators. And that siding/turnout/passing loop must be longer than it looks. Hmm
I figured you’d have an explanation. Thanks.
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I’m not surprised.
I don’t know where it is, but this cannot be genuine.
How about stairs leading to an elevator?
If you can’t do the stairs, you can’t do the stairs, no matter what accommodation they lead to.
Tell that the architect who designed the building where our MD’s office is.
I couldn’t find much information, but on only one site, somebody commented that this was in Morocco, and a group of disability advocates had painted the stairs in protest of the lack of accommodation.
It could be true… or somebody’s idea of a joke, since I didn’t see that said elsewhere.
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Okay, I’ve looked since last time — What ship was that? It’s not a U-boat or the Maine…
I suspect it is this mock up of a ship as a recruitment drive.
A picture I posted a while ago:
New York, 1917 The landship USS Recruit, a wooden destroyer set up in Union Square as a Navy recruiting station.
There’s a goat on that boat…
You’ve done it again! Thanks! (I thought only Royal Navy Matelots behaved like that.)
Kinda glad this reappeared, cos I didn’t finish looking it up last week.
Image search identified the structure as the USS Recruit.
This is what Wikipedia says about it…
“USS Recruit, also known as the Landship Recruit, was a wooden mockup of a dreadnought battleship constructed by the United States Navy in Manhattan in New York City, as a recruiting tool and training ship during the First World War.
Commissioned as if it were a normal vessel of the U.S. Navy and manned by a crew of trainee sailors, Recruit was located in Union Square from 1917 until the end of the war. In 1920, with the reduced requirements for manning in the post-war Navy, Recruit was decommissioned and dismantled, having recruited 25,000 sailors into Navy service.”
I hadn’t refreshed the page so didn’t see your post before I submitted my own. Plus for part of that time I was searching for the picture I knew I had somewhere……
No problem. Happens all the time to me too.
Complimentary posts, anyway.
The whole idea of a wooden ship seems almost a bit whimsical for the Navy.
Especially in your photo… Recruiting by showing sailors dancing with each other?
Dancing sailors. Reminds me of a joke from an old boss who was in the navy. Something about submarine service – where 200 single men go to sea, and 100 couples return.
There is an old naval saying, which I’ll pop into a spoiler box as it contains ‘old’ language.
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I’ll bet they were racing.
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If it’s light for six months of the year, it’s gonna be dark for six months of the year too…/
I didn’t live quite that far north, but I can remember as a high school kid walking to school in the dark, and walking home in the dark. For PE class, they often took us outside for some sun. And hockey. Or show shoes. Or cross country skiing. I’m so glad to be back in normal space.
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Looks like Jabba the Hutt, only friendlier.
I like that it’s holding the bucket.
can you find three owls?
I found one.
Me too.
I’ still looking for the mouse…
Has this picture been cut down?
Might be.
Yeah, one. And a chicken pfart.
Tonight, at dinner (Mom’s birthday – she’s 92 tomorrow) the little tablet on the table with the menu and stuff had a trivia question: What bird can’t fly? I said fried chicken. Hey, it was a restaurant…what did you expect me to be thinking about? I didn’t bother checking the tablet to see if I was right, because, well, you know, fried chicken can’t fly, amiright?
Tell her we said happy birthday!
And yeah, lots of birds can’t fly, fried chickens among them. Ostriches, and their relatives, like emus and kiwis, penguins, and even probably that chicken before it was fried.
Modern poultry raising produces chickens and turkeys that are too heavy for their wings to lift, especially at the young age that they reach marketable size.
Ask a dumb question…. they should expect …ok, I don’t want to say a dumb answer……. a smart aleck.
Happy Birthday, Ma!
Yes, I tracked it down…. Here’s the.whole puzzle.
You can find the other two owls in the previously missing part.
I suppose that’s a hint but it’s pretty obvious!
Got all three!
Not meaning to criticize Nighthawks, but who are the dummies that keep publishing these quizzes with the answers cropped out?
I dunno, but they’re everywhere.
Searching for the image, so I could find it full size, at least half the ones I saw were cropped, and some were on “respectable”(in their fashion) newspaper or puzzle sites (as opposed to random blogs, Pinterest, and Facebook pages.)
Someone like Nighthawks just looking to post it for entertainment can’t be expected to instantly solve it just to make sure it’s intact…
It’s a reasonable expectation to think you wouldn’t need to… But you’d think a publisher would check.
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Somebody’s clever way of communicating with the facilities and maintenance staff: Place the Lamp Here.
I thought maybe the world’s laziest painter … couldn’t be bothered to move the lamp out of the way
Almost looks like an art installation.
Couldn’t be — no banana and duct tape…
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Ce n’est pas un chat…
Nighthawks!
Again…. It’s Saturday… well… Friday night but Saturday on Cleo!
This is a new thing, having arcs that run every day, instead of MWF… makes it hard to remember to stop for Saturday.
sorry!…like last week, tomorrow for sure
S’OK
Maid Marian is no fool.
Hmmm…you’re not selling this very well, Robin.
Attilio Pratella (Italian, 1856–1949) – ‘Via Foria After the Rain’ – Oil on Panel, 34.5 × 22 cm.
Excellent job on the wet cobblestones.
As it’s Caturday….
That basket should be labeled “catnap.”
Oh… this coincidentally reminds me… I was doing a puzzle yesterday, and one of the answer words was “dognap”.
For a second I thought, no, that’s not a word, cos we say catnap.
Then I realized it IS a word, but I just wasn’t thinking of that meaning.
Never occurred to me till then to wonder why falling asleep for 10 minutes is a catnap, but stealing a dog is dognapping.
So…. what do you call stealing cats? If you say catnapping it sounds like they fell asleep on the job.
I’ll try – maybe “Kitty Kopping”?
Cat snatch?