I once took a train from Zurich to Moscow and at the hungarian/ukrainian border they switched the whole train to the wider russian tracks. Took like8 hours or so, waiting there in the middle of nowhere, before we could go on.
Where exactly is this? Is that a standard procedure?
Looks a lot like the Talgo system, weight of the train is shifted to the outer glide tracks, then the wheels are shifted from the inner to outer rails, or the other way around.
As someone that works in railway engineering this is satisfying to see
Fascinating!
They can build something like this, yet they can’t (or rather: wont) stop the rail squeal of trams and trains in certain stations.
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I once took a train from Zurich to Moscow and at the hungarian/ukrainian border they switched the whole train to the wider russian tracks. Took like8 hours or so, waiting there in the middle of nowhere, before we could go on.
Where exactly is this? Is that a standard procedure?
Looks a lot like the Talgo system, weight of the train is shifted to the outer glide tracks, then the wheels are shifted from the inner to outer rails, or the other way around.
As someone that works in railway engineering this is satisfying to see
Fascinating!
They can build something like this, yet they can’t (or rather: wont) stop the rail squeal of trams and trains in certain stations.
Extraordinaire 👍