What’s this inbetween the rails? You don’t just put gravel there?
Also, this seems to be two differen’t usecases. OP’s is in the street (we call that Tram here, often in cities) while yours is beside it (light train).
Edit: right, a gear train, yet another usecase. Answers the question about gravel.
OP’s is in the street (we call that Tram here, often in cities) while yours is beside it (light train).
Unless you’re New South Wales government, in which case you call your Sydney trams “light rail” because you don’t want to admit that Melbourne was right all along to keep its trams instead of ripping up all the tracks because “everyone has cars now”. Sydney used to have one of the biggest tram networks in the world until 1961. That was over two decades before I was born but I’m still mad about it.
Our city calls them LRTs (light rail trains), the public still calls them “streetcars”, but what ever they are called they are still fundamentally trams IMO.
The one I am showing is a new line in our city that goes both above ground and underground in certain locations. The above ground sections run in the center of the street with stations along the center as well.
This track does indeed have inclines in certain locations, but none of the areas along the route require gears. All of the sections above ground look exactly the same in design, only difference is in some locations we have grass between the tracks, and concrete in others.
What’s this inbetween the rails? You don’t just put gravel there?Also, this seems to be two differen’t usecases. OP’s is in the street (we call that Tram here, often in cities) while yours is beside it (light train).
Edit: right, a gear train, yet another usecase. Answers the question about gravel.
Unless you’re New South Wales government, in which case you call your Sydney trams “light rail” because you don’t want to admit that Melbourne was right all along to keep its trams instead of ripping up all the tracks because “everyone has cars now”. Sydney used to have one of the biggest tram networks in the world until 1961. That was over two decades before I was born but I’m still mad about it.
Our city calls them LRTs (light rail trains), the public still calls them “streetcars”, but what ever they are called they are still fundamentally trams IMO.
The one I am showing is a new line in our city that goes both above ground and underground in certain locations. The above ground sections run in the center of the street with stations along the center as well.
This track does indeed have inclines in certain locations, but none of the areas along the route require gears. All of the sections above ground look exactly the same in design, only difference is in some locations we have grass between the tracks, and concrete in others.
Ah right, the screws looked like a gear rack to me.
No wait, it’s not?