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Funicular (Incline) Railways - Canard - 01-14-2016 It's no secret I'm a fan of unusual transport technologies and I've spent most of my life exploring and reading about them. So I'm quite surprised that I found a very new-to-me system - one I've dreamed about for quite a long while, a combination horizontal and vertical elevator/funicular! Such a system exists, in Italy: the Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto. It was constructed between 2002 and 2004 (but looks much older!). It has about a 300 m horizontal translation and 70 m vertical elevation. At about 3:25, if you listen hard enough, you can hear the gearmotor coupled to the grips that release/clamp onto the haul rope for the horizontal section. RE: Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto - jamincan - 01-15-2016 Basically it's a Blade Runner-style elevator. That's pretty cool. RE: Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto - DHLawrence - 01-16-2016 Or a turbolift! RE: Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto - KevinL - 01-16-2016 A more basic and confined alignment, but a London Tube station recently put in a diagonal elevator. RE: Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto - Canard - 01-17-2016 Those are fun! There's at least one DC Metro station with one. RE: Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto - plam - 01-17-2016 (01-16-2016, 11:37 PM)KevinL Wrote: A more basic and confined alignment, but a London Tube station recently put in a diagonal elevator. Although I've never been on an inside inclinator, I have been on 3 inclines this year. One in Pittsburgh, two in Zurich (one of them wasn't working on Friday night and I gave up, but it is generally useful for getting up and down the slope when it's open) and one just today at a ski resort. https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/vbz/de/index/die_vbz/mitbetreute_bahnen/seilbahn_rigiblick.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybahn_funicular https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drahtseilbahn_Unterwasser%E2%80%93Iltios http://www.duquesneincline.org/ Paying for the Duquesne incline was a bit of a pain with a $20 bill, because the US has $1 bills still and the operator didn't have any bigger bills... RE: Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto - Canard - 01-17-2016 I guess I should change the topic of this thread to Funiculars. RE: Funicular (Incline) Railways - KevinL - 05-16-2016 Genoa, Italy, apparently has lots of funiculars - but one isn't inclined as such; it goes sideways, then up... RE: Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto - MacBerry - 05-16-2016 (01-17-2016, 06:56 PM)Canard Wrote: I guess I should change the topic of this thread to Funiculars. or it could be called "Shuttlevators" RE: Funicular (Incline) Railways - tomh009 - 05-17-2016 This was a small one in Barcelona: http://www.trenscat.com/funis/guinardo_ct.html RE: Funicular (Incline) Railways - timio - 05-17-2016 (05-17-2016, 12:00 AM)tomh009 Wrote: This was a small one in Barcelona: There's also the traditional funicular in Barcelona going halfway up Montjuic from the Metro. From the top you can choose to take the cable car or, as my friend and I chose unwisely on a rainy Saturday afternoon, walk to the top to see the castle. We took the cable car back down. RE: Funicular (Incline) Railways - tomh009 - 05-17-2016 (05-17-2016, 06:48 AM)timio Wrote:(05-17-2016, 12:00 AM)tomh009 Wrote: This was a small one in Barcelona: The Montjuic funicular was closed for maintenance while we were there. We walked up to see the Joan Miro Fundacion museum. RE: Funicular (Incline) Railways - Chris - 05-17-2016 There is another funicular in Pittsburgh not far from the already mentioned Duquesne Incline. Monongahela Incline http://www.portauthority.org/paac/SchedulesMaps/Inclines.aspx I did visit the station but time constraints prevented us from taking a ride. RE: Funicular (Incline) Railways - clasher - 05-17-2016 Hamilton used to have two incline railways going up the escarpment. One of the right-of-ways is now pedestrian stairs. RE: Funicular (Incline) Railways - Canard - 05-19-2016 (05-16-2016, 10:44 PM)KevinL Wrote: Genoa, Italy, apparently has lots of funiculars - but one isn't inclined as such; it goes sideways, then up... That's the one I posted as the first post in this thread. |