The final uphill grade on the tram line is too steep for conventional rail train. The tram driver positions the tram uphill from the cable tractor. The two vehicles do no connect. The tram driver remotely controls the tractor which pushes the tram uphill. The tractor operates as a conventional funicular. Gravity holds the vehicles together. On the way down, the tractor brakes the tram.
I think that when the trams are in "funicular" mode they're not controlled by the drivers, when the downhill tram arrives and sets against the ram carriage, the driver sends a "ready" signal to a control room uphill, if the descending tram has sent the ready signal as well the ram carriages are started, when trams stop at the intermediate station, they will send ready signal when they're done with passengers, when the tram arrives downhill the control room waits for the ready signal from the next tram
You are right, the trams are indeed connected. The descending tram 'pushes' the ascending tram (or vice verso) with the help of the 2 carts which are connected by the cable in the middle. We did this trip twice when in Trieste, there's an amazing cave of more than 110 meters high at the end.
What a beautiful city, and cool tram. Video: I can see how much work went into it, stopping off at multiple stops to make what looks like a continuous video. Also, no irritating music drowning out the ambient sound. A+
che nostalgia nel.67 prestavo servizio come s.ten al regimento.2 Piemonte Cavalleria a Opicina e mi servivo del tram per scendere a Trieste , città fantastica che adoro e nella quale torno spesso con emozione e piacere
Grazie a questo video ho capito bene il funzionamento della Trenovia di Opicina. Speriamo rientri in servizio. Per ora grazie mille per la efficace realizzazione e per la pubblicazione.
That's a really interesting system - I think it's the first time I've ever seen a barney system for a tram before. (They were pretty common for coal loader/unloader docks to push coal hoppers up the slope to the coal dumper).
@@JohnHeiman Their used to be a complete video of this tram 'ride' on YT, - I don't know if it is still up or not, with an explanation about those "Pushing/Braking Units". I seem to remember it carries on after it has reached the part where it no longer needs the unit. I think it then carries on for a few more miles, - if it's true I was told it is Privately Owned.
We stayed at the Obelisco campsite at Opicina for a few weeks and it was a delight to catch this tram into Trieste. I also fell in love with Lisbon because of its wonderful trams.
I remember I whatched your video probably, and I went to Trieste (and other places) in spring 2017, but unfortunately the tram was out of service. It was so disappointing, but a nice trip anyway.
Καταπληκτικό! Είστε καταπληκτικοί! Όμως και εμείς στην Ελλάδα είχαμε πλειάδα αστικών σιδηροδρόμων / light rails οι οποίοι εισέρχονταν σε αστικά τοπία (Ναύπλιο, Καλαμάτα, Μεσολόγγι, Βόλος και αλλού). Εξ αυτών το πιο αξιόλογο δίκτυο ήταν αυτό του Βόλου διότι ως light rail εξυπηρετούσε σε ολόκληρο το μήκος (παραλιακό μέτωπο) την πόλη του Βόλου και τα προάστια (Αγριά και Κάτω Λεχώνια) και στη συνέχεια ανηφόριζε προς το Πήλιο, το ιστορικό βουνό των Κενταύρων ως σιδηρόδρομος. Το μοναδικό αυτής της περίπτωσης είναι ότι η γραμμή έχει πλάτος μόνον 60 εκ. Η γραμμή λειτουργούσε από το 1893 έως το 1971 και μετά σταμάτησε. Από το 1996 έχει επαναλειτουργήσει μόνον στο ορεινό τμήμα (Άνω Λεχώνια - Μηλιές) ενώ στο αστικό, το οποίο θα μπορούσε κάλλιστα να λειτουργεί ως light rail παραμένει εκτός λειτουργίας. Από το 2017 τη λειτουργία του ελληνικού σιδηροδρομικού δικτύου την έχει αναλάβει μια θυγατρική εταιρία της FSI, η "Trainose". Όμως η Trainose δεν δείχνει κανένα ενδιαφέρον. Προσπαθώ να βρω συμπαραστάτες από χώρες στις οποίες σέβονται και αγαπούν τον σιδηρόδρομο για να λειτουργήσει και το αστικό τμήμα ως light rail μονής γραμμής με ελατηριωτές διασταυρώσεις. Θα μας βοηθήσετε;
Robbie Hagberg and Sue Hagberg call you back and get the car and get it tomorrow and I can go to me please thanks for the money I have to go to the store for the money for the money I have not been able to get it tomorrow and I can go ahead but I don't know how to do it for me and I will be there next month but I don't know if you want
Sono piemontese ...Trieste è una stupenda citta' di confine ,con posti stupendi . Un vero peccato che la funicolare per Villa Opicina ,non sia più stata ripristinata. Da Prosecco si gode di una panoramica sul golfo di Trieste davvero favolosa .
This tram is unique in Europe. The cars are of this shape because they reflect the originale design of the first cars. The "jacuzzi" is nothing more than a counterweight downstream where a steel cable 45mm thick is fixed, upstream there is another "jacuzzi" that will accompany the car that goes down. The stretch of the funicular has a slope of 25%... one tram goes up and the other goes down. The original project of the early 1900s was realized by Prince Maximilian of Austria, who later died in Messico. Now, its many years stopped.... They have no money (municipality, region, state) to repair the railway and modernise and bring it into practice by following State/European directives.... The citizen of Trieste isnt thery happy for this.
While watching I thought about the maintenance costs of of everything about the system, however what alternatives do they have? Everyone drive cars or bicycles? Congestion would be awful!
Massimiliano d'Asburgo marito della Principessa Carlotta del Belgio , che per lei fece costruire lo stupendo castello di Miramare in pietra carsica...Purtroppo la prematura scomparsa del Principe in Messico sconvolse il loro idillio e Carlotta se non sbaglio impazzì dal dolore e dallo sconforto ...
Well both the inventors of this system and the inventors of jacuzzis (the Jacuzzi brothers) come from this very same region, Friuli, whose capital is Trieste, where this rig is located. So it's possible ^_^
I don't manage to see if there is an overhead wire on the slope. The current collector is constantly up, maybe even at its topmost position. But does that meant that the tramway actually contributes with its own traction, or is it entirely pushed by the car behind, and electricity is only needed for the driver's espresso machine? 🤔
savvo19 il tram de opcina(in triestino) è molto bello, soprattutto salirci, peccato che sia chiuso per un grave incidente, ma dovrebbe riaprire presto dato che fanno numerose prove. Poi il tram è il simbolo della città.
There was a similar system on a steep hill in Sydney, Australia. The tram pushed a counterweight down the hill. A heavier one in a tunnel under the tracks would reach the top of the hill, come down again assisting the same tram back up.
Fascinating! I love both the "carrier" system and the fact that this funicular uses a "single-ended" rather than "looped" cable. The tilted concave rollers (I'm assuming mounted on ball bearings) are interesting; much less drag and wear than using bushings or sleeves.
I read about this in the Magazine called Electric Rails, published in the 1980s. the main difference was the cable tractor looked more like a locomotive, hence they called it a "locomotive"
Ca a l'air super sympa comme ville. J'ai une partie de ma famille en Italie (Rimini) et j'avais un cousin qui dirigeait un camp de réfugiés à Trieste au tout début des années 90.
Questo bellissimo tram,è fermo da 2 anni, in seguito ad un incidente, e a tutt'oggi 18 luglio non ci sono artigiani in grado di ripristinarlo, fare le riparazioni e farlo ripartire. Trieste ha la giunta del fare il tram è l, esempio.
@@paulhorn2665 There is no political will in the Trieste city government, mainly because this tram line connects Slovene minority in hinterland villages with Trieste... (in my opinion)
There are two extra cars in the system connected with a cable, so the uphill and downhill trams have to move at the same time as long as they are hooked up. The trams are a counterweight to each other so not much energy is needed to move the system: The trams are driven by their own power. The extra cars do probably not have engines, they just act to grip the cable. You can see that the cable is present only on the uphill side, not on the downhill side. The cables never cross and a tram does not ever need to pass over a cable.
Good video. The most interesting technical detail is probably the switch in the valley station and the mountain station. There the car drives over the rope that normally lies above the rails. I would have liked to see this technical detail more visible. Apparently the cable is pinched and the car then drives over it.
Kind of: at the uphill station, the balancing system that makes the cable slide from the ascending track to the descending track is placed underground, so the cabs can simply drive over it without really "crossing" the cable. There is a stop right there so you can walk around a bit and see the machinery in action quite clearly. It is also a nice panoramic spot on the city overlooked by an old elegant castle-like villa on the top of the hill
Am I guessing right that the funicular is the little locomotive that is sometimes in the clips? I would love a voiceover or something to better understand what is going on.
It's a shame that Trieste did not retain its urban tram network like milan or Turin and other cities.... If I have the choice I would rather take the tram than the bus
Nice video, but I was very disappointed that you didn't show the switch actually switching, or operating. I was looking forward to seeing it at around 3:43, but you skipped showing it. I really would have liked to see the switch in operation.
+ErebosSan wow, so the whole switching process takes about 1 second, and it happens when the vehicle is pretty close to the switch. Thanks for letting me see the clip!
Vid.me is down. Too bad because I was also interested to see how the thing is made so the tram can get out of the funicular cableway, as there is the cable in the path of the wheels. Cleaver design overall. In Lyon, France, there is a racked subway, parts of the line to steep for the regular train has racks and it engage all smoothly. It replace a cable car.
@@ErebosSan In Australia we don't see these beautiful past time treasures, We used to have the biggest Tram system in the Southern Hemisphere in Sydney but all gone and now they are rebuilding new tram lines, Malborne Victoria still has the trams in use. Thanks again i really enjoyed this video.
Where does the power come from for the pusher (cable tractor)? From the cable? Then does the driver control the speed and brake, just like with the San Francisco cable cars?
The tractors are attached to a cable which loops over a motorized pulley wheel at the upper end of the funicular section. One tram is ascending (pushed by the tractor) while the other one is descending (retained by the tractor). It works as a conventional funicular.
The final uphill grade on the tram line is too steep for conventional rail train. The tram driver positions the tram uphill from the cable tractor. The two vehicles do no connect. The tram driver remotely controls the tractor which pushes the tram uphill. The tractor operates as a conventional funicular. Gravity holds the vehicles together. On the way down, the tractor brakes the tram.
I think that when the trams are in "funicular" mode they're not controlled by the drivers, when the downhill tram arrives and sets against the ram carriage, the driver sends a "ready" signal to a control room uphill, if the descending tram has sent the ready signal as well the ram carriages are started, when trams stop at the intermediate station, they will send ready signal when they're done with passengers, when the tram arrives downhill the control room waits for the ready signal from the next tram
You are right, the trams are indeed connected. The descending tram 'pushes' the ascending tram (or vice verso) with the help of the 2 carts which are connected by the cable in the middle.
We did this trip twice when in Trieste, there's an amazing cave of more than 110 meters high at the end.
Clever !
Then the nice out of fashion car is great ! …
Yeah a funicular is when there is a cable pulling a car to the top. Usually it's a counterbalance system.
you can see the cable to pull the ram tractor at 2:38
What a beautiful city, and cool tram.
Video: I can see how much work went into it, stopping off at multiple stops to make what looks like a continuous video. Also, no irritating music drowning out the ambient sound. A+
Sono piccole opere di ingegneria che sfidano situazioni di apparente pericolosità, il risultato è dolce e poetico. Fantastico!
Adesso è tutto fermo e non si sa quando la riaprono, ed è un vero peccato, perché é davvero bella guardare Trieste dal tram. Saluti da Trieste
bonjour à vous merci
ma da quando è di nuovo fermo?
Da più di tre anni
Non si capisce perché. Ci ero due anni fa e mi sembrava che il materiale rotabile nonché le infrastrutture fossero in discrete condizione.
Sorry I am late finding this. Fascinating operation. Hope this finds you well. Thank you.
che nostalgia nel.67 prestavo servizio come s.ten al regimento.2 Piemonte Cavalleria a Opicina e mi servivo del tram per scendere a Trieste , città fantastica che adoro e nella quale torno spesso con emozione e piacere
nella fretta ho dimenticato una g alla parola reggimento
Grazie a questo video ho capito bene il funzionamento della Trenovia di Opicina. Speriamo rientri in servizio. Per ora grazie mille per la efficace realizzazione e per la pubblicazione.
E invece mi sa che anche per i prossimi 7 anni sarà ancora fermo
I love the biked up front and the extra little push - so cool!
That is the tram proudly displaying its first kill 😊
Very nice! Thumbs up 👍👍👍
Greetings from Tokyo Japan :-)
Culmination of the Italian engineering ingenuity. I also like the cycle rack in front of the driver.
That's a really interesting system - I think it's the first time I've ever seen a barney system for a tram before. (They were pretty common for coal loader/unloader docks to push coal hoppers up the slope to the coal dumper).
I am from Trieste...although I live far away now. Nice video, I feel very nostalgic though.
Is this a widely used form of transportation in Trieste, or a relic from the past?
John Heiman when it works (not now because the tram derail often badly) it is used how a pubblic trasport by the citizens
@@JohnHeiman Their used to be a complete video of this tram 'ride' on YT, - I don't know if it is still up or not, with an explanation about those "Pushing/Braking Units". I seem to remember it carries on after it has reached the part where it no longer needs the unit. I think it then carries on for a few more miles, - if it's true I was told it is Privately Owned.
We stayed at the Obelisco campsite at Opicina for a few weeks and it was a delight to catch this tram into Trieste. I also fell in love with Lisbon because of its wonderful trams.
This year we saw repaired upper part of track and tram which was mooving! :-)
I remember I whatched your video probably, and I went to Trieste (and other places) in spring 2017, but unfortunately the tram was out of service. It was so disappointing, but a nice trip anyway.
This tram is out of service since August 2016 (collision in a passing loop). It seems the line is still not operating today.
USA could take so many lessons about public transportation from Europe. Thanks for the excellent and interesting video.
What an interesting, informative and entertaining video. Thank you so very much for sharing! Great video!
Καταπληκτικό! Είστε καταπληκτικοί! Όμως και εμείς στην Ελλάδα είχαμε πλειάδα αστικών σιδηροδρόμων / light rails οι οποίοι εισέρχονταν σε αστικά τοπία (Ναύπλιο, Καλαμάτα, Μεσολόγγι, Βόλος και αλλού). Εξ αυτών το πιο αξιόλογο δίκτυο ήταν αυτό του Βόλου διότι ως light rail εξυπηρετούσε σε ολόκληρο το μήκος (παραλιακό μέτωπο) την πόλη του Βόλου και τα προάστια (Αγριά και Κάτω Λεχώνια) και στη συνέχεια ανηφόριζε προς το Πήλιο, το ιστορικό βουνό των Κενταύρων ως σιδηρόδρομος. Το μοναδικό αυτής της περίπτωσης είναι ότι η γραμμή έχει πλάτος μόνον 60 εκ. Η γραμμή λειτουργούσε από το 1893 έως το 1971 και μετά σταμάτησε. Από το 1996 έχει επαναλειτουργήσει μόνον στο ορεινό τμήμα (Άνω Λεχώνια - Μηλιές) ενώ στο αστικό, το οποίο θα μπορούσε κάλλιστα να λειτουργεί ως light rail παραμένει εκτός λειτουργίας. Από το 2017 τη λειτουργία του ελληνικού σιδηροδρομικού δικτύου την έχει αναλάβει μια θυγατρική εταιρία της FSI, η "Trainose". Όμως η Trainose δεν δείχνει κανένα ενδιαφέρον. Προσπαθώ να βρω συμπαραστάτες από χώρες στις οποίες σέβονται και αγαπούν τον σιδηρόδρομο για να λειτουργήσει και το αστικό τμήμα ως light rail μονής γραμμής με ελατηριωτές διασταυρώσεις. Θα μας βοηθήσετε;
I love the way they hang bikes on the front.
Robbie Hagberg and Sue Hagberg call you back and get the car and get it tomorrow and I can go to me please thanks for the money I have to go to the store for the money for the money I have not been able to get it tomorrow and I can go ahead but I don't know how to do it for me and I will be there next month but I don't know if you want
Wow, Amazing 👏. The track sounds remind me of trams in my home city... Kolkata.
There something nostalgic about trams 🚊 😢
Haha, love the bike on the front of the tram. Imagine that in the UK? "Oh, no, we can't have that, it will be too dangerous if it hits someone".
J'aime bien le contraste vieux/nouveau avec les vieux trams qui côtoient les nouveaux Citaro C2 dernier cri. Belle vidéo !
Molto interessante e molto bello! Complimenti! 👏👏👏
Wonderful video. Such a clever tram system.
Sono piemontese ...Trieste è una stupenda citta' di confine ,con posti stupendi . Un vero peccato che la funicolare per Villa Opicina ,non sia più stata ripristinata. Da Prosecco si gode di una panoramica sul golfo di Trieste davvero favolosa .
Mi manca tanto il tram di opicina
This tram is unique in Europe. The cars are of this shape because they reflect the originale design of the first cars. The "jacuzzi" is nothing more than a counterweight downstream where a steel cable 45mm thick is fixed, upstream there is another "jacuzzi" that will accompany the car that goes down. The stretch of the funicular has a slope of 25%... one tram goes up and the other goes down. The original project of the early 1900s was realized by Prince Maximilian of Austria, who later died in Messico. Now, its many years stopped.... They have no money (municipality, region, state) to repair the railway and
modernise and bring it into practice by following State/European directives.... The citizen of Trieste isnt thery happy for this.
While watching I thought about the maintenance costs of of everything about the system, however what alternatives do they have? Everyone drive cars or bicycles? Congestion would be awful!
Massimiliano d'Asburgo marito della Principessa Carlotta del Belgio , che per lei fece costruire lo stupendo castello di Miramare in pietra carsica...Purtroppo la prematura scomparsa del Principe in Messico sconvolse il loro idillio e Carlotta se non sbaglio impazzì dal dolore e dallo sconforto ...
Thank you for sharing the nice trams design👍😀
! Muy hermoso el tranvia y la ciudad también se ve agradable y organizada, han conservado la autenticidad e identidad urbana! Ejemplar.
Il tram più affascinante che abbia mai preso...bellissimo
Beautiful ❤️ City looking so classic 👍
Wonderful Treasure ! Thank you !
Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.
Que hermoso tranvía y que linda ciudad es Trieste.
Very nice video and fun to watch. Have a nice day.
Che spetacolo !! Per intanto adeso xe solo …speta.
Bel filmado 👏👏
At first I thought those are jacuzzi as extra attachement for tram, as VIP ride :P))))))))))
digimaks I thought that is a ship to be launched 😂
I like your comment. . .it's absolutely hysterical! lol
Well both the inventors of this system and the inventors of jacuzzis (the Jacuzzi brothers) come from this very same region, Friuli, whose capital is Trieste, where this rig is located. So it's possible ^_^
@@Alby_Torino I love Friuli. Spent a lovely summer in my youth in Pordenone.
I don't manage to see if there is an overhead wire on the slope. The current collector is constantly up, maybe even at its topmost position. But does that meant that the tramway actually contributes with its own traction, or is it entirely pushed by the car behind, and electricity is only needed for the driver's espresso machine? 🤔
How pretty. System is nice, easy and intelligent. It is nice to discover again new things and touristic attractions of my country.
Interesting, thanks! For a similar unusual city hill railway, look up the Budapest cogwheel railway.
Super intéressant
Mille mercis !
🚠🚋
Я целый год жил в Триесте в самом начале 2000х... А сколько раз ездил туда и до и после... Почему я не помню таких трамваев?
Очень красиво, спасибо💖
Beautiful tram - as is always the case with Italian design
Mi quando ero picio andavo allo asilo a opcina con il tram reminiscenze anni bellissimi memento ancora ciao max
Ciao Massimo , concedimi una battuta ...da noi in Piemonte " picio" ha tutto un altro significato 😂😂😂
I disi che el mondooooo....se ga' ribalta'.w Trieste e w el tram de Op(i)cina,alabarda spaziaaaleee❣❤
Magnifique !!! merci pour cette vidéo
This technology is such a simple and powerful that it can survive another next 1000 years
That is so cool! I've never seen a hybrid system like that.
Video molto interessante su un servizio tranviario unico nel suo genere! Bellissimo!
savvo19 il tram de opcina(in triestino) è molto bello, soprattutto salirci, peccato che sia chiuso per un grave incidente, ma dovrebbe riaprire presto dato che fanno numerose prove. Poi il tram è il simbolo della città.
Would be nice to see the unusual track switches on the funcular moving. Looks that the pieces of track pivot rather than the usual switch blades.
There was a similar system on a steep hill in Sydney, Australia. The tram pushed a counterweight down the hill. A heavier one in a tunnel under the tracks would reach the top of the hill, come down again assisting the same tram back up.
Preso nel gennaio 19 ventenne in vacanza a Trieste, bellissima città.
Старинные трамвайчики. На них всегда приятно просто посмотреть..
Nostalgija👑. Lepo📯. Tramvaj je v ponos Trstu⚓
Fascinating! I love both the "carrier" system and the fact that this funicular uses a "single-ended" rather than "looped" cable. The tilted concave rollers (I'm assuming mounted on ball bearings) are interesting; much less drag and wear than using bushings or sleeves.
I read about this in the Magazine called Electric Rails, published in the 1980s. the main difference was the cable tractor looked more like a locomotive, hence they called it a "locomotive"
Очень интересно. Спасибо за видео.😊❤
0:28 Bike rack on an old tram!
Of course!! This is not North America, we use bikes as a commuter way of transport ^_^
I thought that was a very good idea . To store them on the outside so there was more room for passengers.
@@Alby_Torino I remember seeing quite a lot of buses in N America but not Europe with bike racks at the front though
@@lzh4950 Usually bikes are transported inside the vehicle...
Super filmik bardzo mi się podoba pozdrawiam serdecznie oby tak dalej
merci de nous faire decouvrire votre ville et ces transports unique !!
Ca a l'air super sympa comme ville. J'ai une partie de ma famille en Italie (Rimini) et j'avais un cousin qui dirigeait un camp de réfugiés à Trieste au tout début des années 90.
Questo bellissimo tram,è fermo da 2 anni, in seguito ad un incidente, e a tutt'oggi 18 luglio non ci sono artigiani in grado di ripristinarlo, fare le riparazioni e farlo ripartire. Trieste ha la giunta del fare il tram è l, esempio.
Si, fare comparsate in Tv
this is amazing, should have built more
Super Video👍👍👍
Però il tram in una città ha sempre un tocco magico..
Amazing. Great video, thanks
What's that thing the tram was towing?
Brilliant shots 👍🏼
Too bad it was closed down, one of Trieste’s historic landmarks.
Noooo :-( Closed forever?
@@paulhorn2665
There is no political will in the Trieste city government, mainly because this tram line connects Slovene minority in hinterland villages with Trieste... (in my opinion)
@@user-ys4og2vv8k you didn't answer
@@user-ys4og2vv8k more like no money
Fascinating. Thank you
There are two extra cars in the system connected with a cable, so the uphill and downhill trams have to move at the same time as long as they are hooked up. The trams are a counterweight to each other so not much energy is needed to move the system: The trams are driven by their own power. The extra cars do probably not have engines, they just act to grip the cable. You can see that the cable is present only on the uphill side, not on the downhill side. The cables never cross and a tram does not ever need to pass over a cable.
What is that little number 1 and 2 sled thingy? A brake cart to help with stopping on the hill?
Yes. They are trolleys that allow the tram to be pushed or held back on the slope. It works like a funicular.
Thanks for sharing.
Good video. The most interesting technical detail is probably the switch in the valley station and the mountain station. There the car drives over the rope that normally lies above the rails. I would have liked to see this technical detail more visible. Apparently the cable is pinched and the car then drives over it.
Kind of: at the uphill station, the balancing system that makes the cable slide from the ascending track to the descending track is placed underground, so the cabs can simply drive over it without really "crossing" the cable. There is a stop right there so you can walk around a bit and see the machinery in action quite clearly. It is also a nice panoramic spot on the city overlooked by an old elegant castle-like villa on the top of the hill
Am I guessing right that the funicular is the little locomotive that is sometimes in the clips?
I would love a voiceover or something to better understand what is going on.
The most loved destionation for citizens of YUGOSLAVIA in the past!
.great video.
Je po Covidu, nejvyšší čas vyčistit koleje a obnovit provoz. Byl jsem v TIERSTE 2022 a prohlédl jsem si alespoň výhozí stanici.
It's a shame that Trieste did not retain its urban tram network like milan or Turin and other cities.... If I have the choice I would rather take the tram than the bus
Super video!
Sono nostalgico si questa citta
Fantastico! a quando un ripristino della gloriosa rete urbana triestina?? :-)
How can the tramway cross over the cable?
There is a small gap in the rail track where the cable passes through. Look at 2:32
Nice video, but I was very disappointed that you didn't show the switch actually switching, or operating. I was looking forward to seeing it at around 3:43, but you skipped showing it. I really would have liked to see the switch in operation.
Here you are: vid.me/NZgo
+ErebosSan wow, so the whole switching process takes about 1 second, and it happens when the vehicle is pretty close to the switch. Thanks for letting me see the clip!
Luke Starkenburg My pleasure
Vid.me is down. Too bad because I was also interested to see how the thing is made so the tram can get out of the funicular cableway, as there is the cable in the path of the wheels.
Cleaver design overall. In Lyon, France, there is a racked subway, parts of the line to steep for the regular train has racks and it engage all smoothly. It replace a cable car.
Video is dead unfortunatly. I too was interested to see what must have been a rotating seciong of rail in action.
дополнительная секция тележка это фуникулёр на тросе, помогает преодолевать крытые наклоны
Посмотрел 1.12.2019. не понял что это за телега.Думал грузы перевозят.Спасибо за подсказку.Нашол только 1 комент на русском.
Thanks for sharing!. Nice
You're welcome!
@@ErebosSan In Australia we don't see these beautiful past time treasures, We used to have the biggest Tram system in the Southern Hemisphere in Sydney but all gone and now they are rebuilding new tram lines, Malborne Victoria still has the trams in use. Thanks again i really enjoyed this video.
wow seriously clever, ingenious solution!
Will it have electric or air brakes?
Liked the video ... thanks for sharing
Grazie per i cuori biondi..
It's a boatotrain or trainoboat ?I am feeling sydney watching the speed of the developing technology.
Where does the power come from for the pusher (cable tractor)? From the cable? Then does the driver control the speed and brake, just like with the San Francisco cable cars?
The tractors are attached to a cable which loops over a motorized pulley wheel at the upper end of the funicular section. One tram is ascending (pushed by the tractor) while the other one is descending (retained by the tractor). It works as a conventional funicular.
Then I guess the driver in the coach doesn't control the funicular wheel; an operator sitting in a control room does that?
Is this also a narrow gauge railway?
Is this the first tram-train at world, lol i love it❤❤
Tendrá frenos eléctricos o de aire ?
I''m suprised how fast and easy they go uphill always
How does the tram cross the cable when it enters/exits the cable section?
This picture can help you to understand: i.ibb.co/W5Z9phr/Tram-Trieste.jpg
@@ErebosSan Looks like a dangerous game to play, I'd like a closer look but that looks like a potential for high wear, and the risk if it breaks!
Those hills reminds of San Francisco
Im just curious, how do they make the track switch? I was thinking maybe from a signalbox like the railroad tracks do.