Bruno - nice photo, and interesting angle of perspective. What I'd like to know: How do the funicular cars switch tracks without a switch and frog? I would think that with the flanged wheels (if they have flanges) would bump over those guide rails at the junction and derail the cars. I understand the cable concept and the guide rollers and pulleys for the cable, I'm just not grasping the concept of how the cars can transition through the junction without a switch and frog. ???? < scratching my head!
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The wheels over the outer rail have two flanges while the inner wheels are flangeless.
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The cars have double flanges on the outer wheels and no flanges on the inner wheels.
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Still - seems like a huge gap for the inner wheel(s). If no flange - why have any gap at all? Wild shot, btw!
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5 years late, but the gaps in the inner rails are there to let the towing cables through.
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