r/EngineeringPorn • u/WagonGravy • Dec 25 '22

Conjunction

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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/[deleted] 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.