gCaptain: Interesting Ship Of The Week - Geared Funicular Railway
Tim Flanagan
· 1 year ago
That's pretty neat, John, but THAT'S NO SHIP! It's a geared funicular railway!
Anyway, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it. :-)
Richard
· 1 year ago
No matter what it is ... the word "bizarre" comes to mind pretty quickly.
John
· 1 year ago
Tim,
Goog stuff but did you have to send me to the dictionary ;)
funicular: # relating to or operated by a cable; "funicular railway" # cable railway: a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Jim Brown
· 1 year ago
Appears to be a hydraulic drive as I see it. Power is from electric driven hydraulic pump.
John
· 1 year ago
Thanks Jim... the only thing clear to me is I need to recruit an engineer to start contributing to this blog.
All Comments
Anyway, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it. :-)
Goog stuff but did you have to send me to the dictionary ;)
funicular:
# relating to or operated by a cable; "funicular railway"
# cable railway: a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn