http://capdiamont.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/gcaptain-posts-about-a-massive-ship-carrying-rack-railway/ Humboldt county, CA news, railroad, computers, electronics, renewable energy Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:37:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 http://capdiamont.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/gcaptain-posts-about-a-massive-ship-carrying-rack-railway/#comment-971 Interesting Ship Of The Week - Geared Funicular Railway | gCaptain.com Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:09:23 +0000 http://capdiamont.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/gcaptain-posts-about-a-massive-ship-carrying-rack-railway/#comment-971 [...] Capdiamont offers the details behind this railed giant;  I can’t find the original source he used, but it is a massive electrically powered rack railway that hauls  ships,  up and over a dam in Russia. At the top it has a turntable  so the locomotive  can be turned to keep it’s load straight, no matter which way it goes. Think of the top of the dam as the crest. In order to keep the downhill side always downhill, you have to turn it. This one is unusual because the top of the turntable is slanted to keep the locomotive slanted, so the load stays level. Add to all this, is the massive size of everything. This has to be the longest, and heaviest turntable in the world. [...] [...] Capdiamont offers the details behind this railed giant;  I can’t find the original source he used, but it is a massive electrically powered rack railway that hauls  ships,  up and over a dam in Russia. At the top it has a turntable  so the locomotive  can be turned to keep it’s load straight, no matter which way it goes. Think of the top of the dam as the crest. In order to keep the downhill side always downhill, you have to turn it. This one is unusual because the top of the turntable is slanted to keep the locomotive slanted, so the load stays level. Add to all this, is the massive size of everything. This has to be the longest, and heaviest turntable in the world. [...]

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