The GoldenPass Express train service operated by Montreux-Oberland Bahn and BLS Lötschbergbahn uses a fleet of Stadler-built panoramic coaches with gauge-changing bogies, see here switching from metre to standard gauge. Full story: https://bit.ly/3Ffbnhn
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I bet the test engineers had some interesting moments in the development of this idea, especially when they decide to ramp the speed up.
Can't they jusy make the rails the fucking same size ?!
Sheesh okay YouTube I will watch it now stop shoving it on my face all the damn time
I like how the track is what actually does the work here! When the train hits that special track with the extra-high ties, the wheels raise up, and two metal plungers extend from those silver boxes in the middle. And a few seconds later, those plungers slip into special slots in the rails, which push the wheels apart as the train continues to move. Once they are fully pushed out, the wheels go back down and the plungers retract. And now the train is on the higher gauge track! This whole process then reverses when the train comes back in the other direction, and the wheels push themselves back together.
Edit: That whole process happens in EIGHT SECONDS. The Swiss aren’t just good for watches and utility knives…they make GENIUS stuff like this, too!
Transformer in real life!
Here were my exact words just now. "Dude, that was awesome!"
Like a swiss watch
the swiss have this and america can't even fix the 100,000 high way bridges that are rotting away. USA is a shithole
nu uh you don’t trains are not allowed to switch gauge
That is bang tidy
its like why wouldnt you just make them all the same width. this is some crazy engineering sh**
I wish more trains were like this!!
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Love this.
(Also, I just have to face palm some at the metric system. "1,000 mm". Do better, folks)
kinda hot ngl
🎉🎉🎉👍👍👍👍
You remember that narrow guage engine that pushed the rails from each other in the Railway Series? Yeah, he had this set up lmao.
Men would look at this and be like "oh yeah"
Fuckin awesome 🙌🏾🤟🏾
The Swiss are so dammed good at engineering and plain making complex machines.