The Little Train That Couldn't...

"THEY MADE ME GRAY" (autovox-is-the-one) 10/14/2013 at 11:20 • Filed to: TRAINLOPNIK

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What? To Know, You Need To

...Cross The Brige, Of Course. Sorry, But Some People Always Need An Explanation.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > THEY MADE ME GRAY 10/14/2013 at 11:22

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I'd say that it's the bridge that actually couldn't.

/pedantic/

Cherry_man1 > THEY MADE ME GRAY 10/14/2013 at 11:28

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Oh dont mind me i just didnt pay the toll.....OH FUCK!

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > THEY MADE ME GRAY 10/14/2013 at 11:28

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Interesting that annotations can be applied to .gif lead images... I wonder if the snapshot will animate.

How whoever designed this bridge would expect the left span cantilever to function at all while not tied to even two posts fully, I'm not sure. If this is a movie scene, the design weaknesses make more sense. Once it lifts from the left of the two posts, its lack of solid connection to the other beam brings it all to an end. Ideal place for a sabotage on any similar bridge, to be sure.

deekster_caddy > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/14/2013 at 11:50

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The only way I could see this being on film is that it's a movie scene. Otherwise for the time period, people didn't just hang around filming train bridges randomly.

Sethersm > THEY MADE ME GRAY 10/14/2013 at 11:52

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Sir Topham Hatt isn't going to be happy...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > deekster_caddy 10/14/2013 at 12:10

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The fun thing is, I don't think this is model scale, or if so not smaller than maybe 1:8. The physics are too close to correct.

It's basically an expected failure of a really awful bridge design, but one that might plausibly exist. Might be one that existed that they got the OK to sabotage for a scene - presumably causing any bridge engineers in the audience to say "hey, wait a minute", but before home video be unable to revisit it without coming back for the movie again...

NaturallyAspirated > THEY MADE ME GRAY 10/14/2013 at 12:15

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That's a clip from the 1926 Buster Keaton comedy, "The General."