Thread 2053210

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Don't use maintenance-intensive transportation in southern Europe.

AI can't do funiculars

50 seconds of terror.

Why do they not have emergency brake?

>>2053210 (OP)
This video will answer any question you have: https://youtu.be/XW0W7j04iRQ?si=rBe2OI3ATpxUyPk_

TIL

The term funicular derives from the Latin word funiculus, the diminutive of funis, meaning 'rope

The U.S. used to have funiculars everywhere and there’s still a few survivors like the ones in Pittsburgh but I never heard of a major accident like the one in Portugal. There used to be all kinds of gory train wrecks and you’d think some tourist funicular would be unsafe and poorly regulated but they must have used some kind of super deadman emergency brake in case the cable snapped.

Funi car :)

>>2053210 (OP)
Lisbons "Elevadores" aren't funiculars, they're a strange and unique hybrid, though they have two cars on a rope acting as counterweights, the cars have motors and drivers. The cars are electrically connected in series, so that if anyone of them stops, both stop, or to put it differently, they only get as much power as the one giving the least power.

>>2053235
Usually funiculars have an emergency brake which is like a clamp that grips the rails. However this isn't possible on the Elevadores because they run on the street, so I don't know what sort of emergency brake they have.
In the very early days, when funiculars worked without power and used water ballast instead, they had a rack rail for breaking.

Post funiculars. This is the one that inspired the famous song.

https://youtu.be/QLYS838WTAs?si=zgX2OZCBxDzG0xCr
1902 footage of the Mount Beacon incline in New York’s Hudson Valley

> Our guy

The third British victim killed in the Lisbon funicular crash has been named by police.

David Young, 82, from Holyhead on Anglesey, was among 16 people who died last Wednesday when the Glória funicular derailed and crashed into a building in Portugal's capital.

His family described him as a "lifelong transport enthusiast", saying it was a comfort that "his final moments were in pursuit of the hobby which gave him so much happiness".

>>2053210 (OP)
They'll fucking kill you

>>2053252
there's a famous song about funiculars?

>>2053396
>saying it was a comfort that "his final moments were in pursuit of the hobby which gave him so much happiness".
seems a pretty grim thing to say desu, i bet the poor old bastard was terrified

>>2053406
https://youtu.be/yTSAZAHiOa8?si=gqcBT8EnwURU5HIw
I don’t know Italian but in some of the lyrics the singer compares his gf to the hotness of Vesuvius, then the chorus is “let’s go to the top, funiculi, funicula…”

Mt. Adams incline in Cincinnati, where streetcars rode on platforms. Other cities had something like this for freight wagons and carriages.

>>2053396
What type of public transport would you want to get killed by /n/?

>>2053446
Plane, there is no hope, so you instantly know you're doomed

>>2053455
>there is no hope
Look up JAL 123 sometime.

>>2053446
https://youtu.be/IAiV0X1jFp8?si=0HTFqpUNBalcImND
Scalded to death by the steam

>>2053446
Passenger Shuttle to Enceladus 2051 AD

>>2053210 (OP)
>Fucking ai shit

Funiculì Funiculàààààààà

>>2054050
Tausend nackte Weiber auf dem Männerpissoir! :D

>>2053210 (OP)
I'm amazed at how shitty the Lisbon funiculars look. I watched videos of them before the accident happened and they seemed like they hadn't been maintained for 50 years mechanically or visually. Constant creaking, shaky ride, very slow movement. I'm amazed a failure didn't happen earlier.

>>2054110

that's Iberian infrastructure for you

>>2053210 (OP)
it's a rollercoaster that actually goes somewhere

>>2053210 (OP)
So why did it crash? Just because the cable broke? But I heard it had other things to brake.

THIS is the fernicular song
https://youtu.be/2N7HfYnO5S8?feature=shared

>>2054077
Gibt es auch ein Frauenpissoir?

Kyiv funicular. This looks so boxy and modern compared to the throwback look of most funiculars.

>>2054231
Nein

>>2054150
>Shady "low cost" maintenance contract awarded to fake "company"
>Steel core cable replaced with plastic core cable
>Emergency brakes unable to stop tram

Michigan

Manitou Springs, Colorado

>>2053406
Gloria is a great name four your daughter.

https://youtu.be/nNEb2k_EmMg

>The name "Gloria" is derived from Latin, meaning "glory" or "fame." It is often associated with concepts of honor, praise, and splendor, particularly in religious contexts.

We have one here in Turku. Awfully inefficient mode of transportation. It was extremely expensive, does not look like the design at all and is always broken down. Kind of a symbol for Turku. In the meantime our rival city Tampere just built a fucking awesome tram network

>>2053247
The clamp itself failed.

Funicular at Montserrat, north of Barcelona in Spain

Angels Flight was built in Los Angeles in 1901 and has since been moved to another nearby location but still runs and has been featured in many films.

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>>2054819
Did they died

>>2054787
It couldn't have a clamp like a normal funicular because of the rails set into the street. Apparently it did have some emergency brake system which had never been tested and failed.

Normal funiculars are actually extremely safe, in Switzerland we have dozens if not over a hundred funiculars and it has been decades since there has been a serious accident. Ropeways are actually somewhat more prone to accidents.

>>2056720
For me, it's Saas-Fee's Metro Alpin. Hohlaub exit is spoopy.

>>2054785
The render of a car with running gear made of granite or possibly concrete should have been a giveaway

>>2053446
In Dubuque, Iowa there is a funicular connecting 2 halves of a rich guys house that became public after his death. I think it still costs 50 cents and you can bring your bike. I'd perish in it.

>>2054785
That thing literally looks like it was designed by Viktor Antonov using a discarded Half-Life 2 Combine or Dishonored design as a basis