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   sidereal (sidereal@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 06:49:53 JST sidereal

   Got tired of having this conversation over and over again so I just spent way too long making this:

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     Panda Cab (frenchpanda@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 23:55:24 JST Panda Cab

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     Nixie (nixie@nixie.name)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 23:56:21 JST Nixie

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     @sidereal UNLESS...the two tracks are closely spaced together. In wich case you want to derail each bogey.

     (I know, I know, only some older trams have bogeys, more modern ones have single wheelsets, but had to make the joke anyway)

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     Breizh (breizh@pleroma.breizh.pm)'s status on Friday, 19-Jan-2024 23:57:11 JST Breizh

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     @Nixie @sidereal AFAIK there is still bogies on modern trams, like the Alstom Citadis for example.

     I’ve seen that some models that have fixed bogies, but I didn’t see any model with single wheelsets.

     Or it’s a very recent change that we’ll see more and more as they are replaced?

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     sidereal (sidereal@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 01:03:49 JST sidereal

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     In case anyone is wondering: yes, this is how train robberies operated in the Old West. Slip the switch after the locomotive passes by, passenger cars are stuck there. They could rob everyone and get away before the locomotive could even stop and reverse back to the passenger cars.

     And in case you were also wondering: yes, this tactic is still used by people stealing UPS packages from trains in various American cities today.

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     sidereal (sidereal@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 01:03:49 JST sidereal

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     This actually comes from railroad workers talking in comments on a fb group. I just made the meme for them.

     They were like "those trolley memes are stupid, we have to do this in our railyard like once a week when some intermodal runs loose."