Very interesting perspective! The thumbnail view is an interesting view but your description compels the viewer to expand the view to see just what's going on in the photo. Good job.
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Now thats different! Great photo.
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| Posted by FSWood on January 11, 2011 | |
Fascinating about being access road too.
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Its a blur of amazement
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So the purpose of this is to just spin the car around so it is facing the other way? I don't see any other tracks like you would see on a "regular" turntable, unless they are at the bottom out of the picture.
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| Posted by FSWood on January 12, 2011 | |
You have it cabman, pretty muchly to change the heading on cars. On classic steam era turntables those radial tracks were typically used for minor servicing and holding steam locos between runs; subway likely has a very different setup for those purposes.
And, available landscape at this location is probably an issue as well.
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BART cars don't have cabs at each end? I thought all subway cars that weren't permanently coupled had cabs at both ends...
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Nope; it would be an incredible waste of money to equip every car in the fleet -- over 660 -- with a cab when most of them would be buried in trains (for example, trains on the Pittsburg-SFO route run with 8 to 10 cars during the day). BART owns four types of cars, of which only the A and C variants (about 43% of the fleet) are equipped with cabs; the C cars do not have the wedge-shaped nose styling that the original A cars did, which permits their placement in mid-train if necessary.
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