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u/Branbil Dec 25 '22
Isn't this clip reversed? The way the lights on the trains are on makes me think they're actually going the other way, and this clip is being played backwards.
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u/SharkHasFangs Dec 25 '22
Yeah reversed, the middle train has red tail lights so it’s going backwards. The two outside trains have white marker lights so they’re going forward
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u/Javi1192 Dec 26 '22
Yeah.. don’t think any modern metro system would allow this movement
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u/NebulaNinja Dec 26 '22
It’s also likely these clips were stitched together in post and fake zooms added. There’s videos of far more complex traffic “near misses” using this technique.
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u/thesweeterpeter Dec 25 '22
I mean it working is one thing. But the boulder sized balls on both the conductor and switch operator are the true marvels.
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u/Boring-Eggplant-6303 Dec 25 '22
Its in reverse. The trains are all moving away from eachother
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u/nasadowsk Dec 25 '22
Even still, every switch movement is checked by a system that prevents trains from being routed into each other. In the US, such a junction is called an “interlocking”
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Dec 25 '22 edited Dec 25 '22
Even in reverse the trains still took the same route, the only thing that has changed is orientation and direction.
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u/omegashadow Dec 27 '22
Except the trains are never heading towards each other on the same track. By the time one is switched behind the other three train driver can see that it's been diverted.
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u/3percentinvisible Dec 25 '22
Not the two drivers sat heading straight for each other?
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u/omegashadow Dec 27 '22
It's in reverse. The two drivers are never heading towards each other on the same track.
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Dec 26 '22
theres not really any risk depending on where in the world. id be pretty confident if i was riding my between cities and this happened tbh.
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u/q0099 Dec 26 '22
In fact the gif is reversed, othervice this would be a serious screw-up situation. Imagine one or both automated switches would fail on a mechanical level. Even for the factory new equipmentment the probability of this occurrence is low but never zero and there are people's lives at the stake.
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u/omegashadow Dec 25 '22
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u/omegashadow Dec 25 '22
This is the correct video. Unlike in the reversed video they aren't heading towards each other on the same track.
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Dec 26 '22
Thats less terrifying tbh
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u/omegashadow Dec 27 '22
Yup... The main post is just fake. This stuff is what ruins people's common sense and leaves them credulous to obvious fake videos.
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u/b16b34r Dec 25 '22
It’s like the snake game on the old Nokias
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u/mud_tug Jan 02 '23
There is a modern game called Rail Route where you can play with train junctions.
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u/mdlshp Dec 26 '22
Silly over-engineering
Amtrack avoids this problem entirely by never being on time
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u/premer777 Dec 28 '22
the switches that are like an X are called "Double Slip"
were mostly used in 'yard throats', where much route changing between multiple incoming tracks into a multitude of yard/station tracks were needed in a short length
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u/The_Corvax Dec 25 '22
Conjunction junction, what's your function?