Well There's Your Problem | Episode 73: Kaprun Disaster
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"They were all acquitted." is like the free space on the bingo card for these mass casualty events.
Make the meme! DO IT!
“Pictures taken seconds before the disaster”
Add "The legal action is somehow still ongoing"
Iirc, the reasoning behind it is nepotism. which includes the judge.
I would like to draw a direct comparison to Ischgl. There's a) a buttload of photos of how apres ski partygoers make the area full of trash and ruining nature in general. b) the party mile was still open during the beginning of the pandemic, probably being a cause for the fast paced spread in germany, netherlands and the likes.
The people responsible for knowingly endangering people by opening up business for drunk tourists? They didnt have to face charges. The Judge, who may or may not be good friends with the showrunners, acquitted them. He was worried that jailtime would "endanger Ischgl as a tourist spot"
that's just austria re: everything tourism, though. Can't have anything NOT be perfect for the tourists.
I do not think I can handle this one. A lot of my dads closest and dearest friends died that day. He wanted to go with them actually but I was sick as a 5 Year old and he took care of me instead of going skiing with them. They were part of a football club and were friends since elementary school. All of them died. I was to small at the time to realise how devastating this must have been for my dad and everyone. They never let me know. We visit their graves every year and I only made the connection as a teenager. A dozen graves and my dad would have been one of them. Just the thought of my dad stuck in that hole, gasping for air is to much for me. He means the world to me. I will skip this episode, just the images are enough for me.
I am sorry for your dad. It must have been horrible.
@@annafdd Thanks!
Take care buddy
My condolences to you and your father
getting a consumer-grade gender only to find it wears out and starts glitching out after a few years
aw fuck they put planned obsolescence on my testosterone levels
i got a military grade gender and it stopped working almost immediately once i tried to do anything with it and i haven’t had one since
@@fireballninja01 you need enriched uranium for the inbuilt molten salt reactor.
my gender keeps wearing out at the knees
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Death sentence for corporations as an entity when? Corporations are persons after all.
I've always enjoyed the joke "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one."
Re: parking on driveways and driving on parkways
It’s because both words predate the automobile.
A parkway was a lane through a park. When cars came around it came to include any road with manicured land alongside. Simple enough
A driveway was, like today, a road connecting a building to the main road, except back then such paths were often to barns rather than houses. You would drive your team of horses/oxen/etc up to load/unload cargo. So they’re mostly fir carts rather than riding or walking. Thus, driveway.
Such roads, once automobiles came around, were very convenient places to park your car.
The more you know.
Thank you for this.
@@Longuncattr oh don’t encourage me. I’m far too much of a pedant 😆
Also, most driveways lead to a garage but people don't park *in* the garage because it's full of shit.
@@WaterMan416 People won't even park on a driveway nowadays. Keep the driveway empty and just take up space on the street.
@@innsj6369 that was my problem at my last house. Nobody used their off street parking. I had none. Landlord didn't want to make any. Had to fight over parking.
"It was designed to be very hard to set on fire" are the 11 most ominous words in engineering.
"That's how I got into computers"
"That's how I got into gender"
I love this podcast so much
Liam doing an angry% speed run starting off with the yelling pronouns strat
no-clipping to and from the fridge for beers
Now you are thinking with Liams.
Right-to-Repair has been introduced in the UK in the last 48 hours, but the legislation doesn't include smartphones or computers -- weird, right?
Can't imagine how that happened.
Especially since corporations and industy have been separated from politics so long now... it baffles the mind.
@Blaire Sovereign and automobiles
I blame Tim Apple.
Re: the building in Florida
The creepiest thing to me was the guy who got a call from his ma the night before.
She lived in the building and the night before was awoken by load groaning noises she couldn’t explain.
He described the whole call.
She’s currently “missing”.
Sounds like the building might have been starting to give way.
Poor guy.☹️
Jesus Christ.
theres another guy who says hes getting phonecalls from his parents and its just white noise on the other end
@@angus4202 I don’t know if I buy that, and if true it’s probably just a glitch…
But it’s wicked heartrending and eerie either way
@@grmpEqweer right? He’ll blame himself for not doing something now, even though there’s no way he could’ve known.
Take it from me, survivor’s guilt is a real bitch
If people wanna call someone insensitive maybe they should rag on the people who slacked off and cut corners to cause the disaster to begin with huh
bUt My DeCoRuM!11
“But they’re not in punching range and don’t have a comments section! I’m mad at this injustice and want someone to pay for it *now*”
33:25 As someone who repairs old stand mixers: it depends on how old the mixer is. Anything from the 60's and earlier is virtually bombproof and easy to service. Old speed control mechanisms are often a bit difficult to sort out though.
Loving the big Teacher vibes from Roz trying to validate Alice when he thought she was saying that the train car was more complicated than a space ship.
“Signal guys are the train guys of train guys.” - Alice Caldwell-Kelly, 2021
Am signal guy, can confirm
Ah, a fellow subset 26 enjoyer
Man I can't wait until Musk's Gamer Tube brings us Kaprun 2 because nothing can ever go wrong with making tunnels without fire safety systems cause they will never catch fire
Actually shocked they didn't mention it, since that tunnel reeks of a repeat of this disaster.
Kaprun but with giant lithiums sounds fun
Honestly when I saw how small the tunnels where in his Vegas Loop this was one of the first things I thought of.
Considering that it’s a closed loop they should have gone the bumper car route and just stuck a catenary along the ceiling with an arm in the car roof and skipped the batteries all together
@@joshuahadams but then that’s like a train and we can’t have that
"You can't get more ridged than that" the name of Roz's only fans
gets you roc zolid
the Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 looks too intense for me
Don’t worry they scrapped it.
Just looking at Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 makes me feel sick!
I'm not paying that much to go on Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2.
Looks like Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2 is closed for maintenance.
Why am I not surprised that the guy who voices everything is interested in engineering disasters
A thing I remember from a museum display on pottery production in pre-industrial China: for huge output pottery-makers, the kiln was…
…an inclined tunnel built into a hillside. When it came up that the fire started at the lower end of funicular, I had to sit down for a moment.
Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime
That's why I watch WTYP on company time.
Anyone else found it incredibly soft when liam said adda girl about Alice shaking hands with danger
Ah yes we are finally getting to the late 90s/early 2000s series of European tunnel fires. Can't wait for the episode on the Mont Blanc Tunnel fire and the Gotthard Road Tunnel fire.
"Two means it's fine, one and three means I'm sick"
The rest of the podcast is staring incredulously while I'm going "oh, you have a system like that too."
“more than three means its allergies” true shit 🙏🙏🙏
Your diversion into a discussion of gender - it's that sort of thing that makes the 'cast not just informative but also entertaining. Also, I would totally listen to an episode of "How It's Made: Gender" if Alice narrated it.
well there’s your gender
@@scrungly An identity with slides
this is the only comment thread that made me LOL
Then DaThings could make a poop of it called Wow! It's Made: Gender
That could be a bonus episode for sure :-) 🏳️⚧️pride🏳️⚧️
Well There's Your Late-Night Viewing
A podcast about engineering disasters, at night
If it had dropped significantly earlier I might have gotten sick and called off work. My PTO is grateful.
Well there's your problem...after dark
I've never caught one this early. It's like a special night owl treat.
Pronoun checks... at night
At night! (Spongebob hash slinging slasher)
In Dutch, reinforced concrete is called, literally translated, "armed concrete".
I'm sure Florida will use this to arm their inspectors as a solution.
Guns solve everything. You know, like healthcare access, affordable housing...Just add more guns.
Our health inspectors are armed which fucking blew my mind.
Hm, in German it's "Stahlbeton".
It's "armed" (in Portuguese it's "betão armado") because it has a steel "armature" inside.
We also use that in Polish (beton zbrojony), although there's another word that's as common is "żelbeton" with an abbreviation for iron (żelazo).
35 minutes in on a mountain railway disaster and we’ve somehow gotten on the topic of militarized gender artillery shells raining down on trenches and I couldn’t be more entertained
Everyone: Omg, a building in Florida collapsed.
My first thought: I know this is making the God Damned News.
I know they are gonna make an episode on that at some point in the future, can't wait.
excited for the report on it to come out
The surf side collapse is messed up. I don’t trust like that. American exceptionalism what?
well I'm never living in an apartment complex again. time to move
@@eclownaroundtown Only 5 years away!
I'm definitely looking forward to their take on the situation.
I proudly had a "C" average in engineering school. My grades frequently had less to do with my understanding of course material and more to do with my lab reports being regularly turned in late. My dept had a policy of a late report being a maximum of a C, not turning in a single report meant that the highest grade for the class would be a C. Failing to turn in 2 reports was an automatic failure. I just hated writing dumb, repetitive reports. Happily, my current engineering job requires very few reports.
I changed majors my third year of mechE because I was a C avg student who could "pass the class" but wasn't really mastering the material. I dropped because I felt like id either end up killing someone via my shoddy work, or killing kids intentionally by getting a job at a defense contractor(most mechE grads in st Louis end up building baby killers for Boeing/etc).
Turns out computer science is way way way easier to get an A+ avg in while still never mastering the material.
Now I work for a shipping software company where my work only contributes to the death and exploitation of Amazon workers so I guess it's a wash.
I don’t know when you recorded this but things have been emerging about the garage and the failure to repair the concrete that make it a lot less puzzling. BTW Roz, the “pool deck” is basically the whole slab of concrete that was at the level of the pool rim, and that they might as well have called “garage ceiling”. It goes right underneath the building.
I actually went about repairing an old ish chop saw I found in my father in law's shed. It ran but sounded like marbles in a blender. Pulled it apart, realised the bearings were fuckered, got new bearings for like $25, regressed the gearbox, painted the whole thing, put it back together.
Now instead of gathering dust, it sees regular front line use again. Best way to recycle, reuse! Repair!
Now I want to get a stainless steel KitchenAid mixer with Enola Gay decals so I can say that my cookies are The Bomb.
If you're ever wondering "where is the antipode of [place in the contiguous US]" it's pretty much guaranteed to be in the Indian Ocean. New England's antipodes get within 600-ish miles of Australia, San Diego's antipode is 1000-ish miles from Madagascar.
There is a spot near Cheyenne Wells, Colorado that has a land antipode at Ile Saint-Paul
Gotta love the upload time of 12:22 am
Pacific time best time.
It's not even 2130, idk what you're talking about.
EST gang
Breakfast entertainment at 6.30
12:22 IN THE KINDA MORNING SORTS DEPENDING ON HOW YOU DEFINE IT
I love how over the course of this show we just get snippets of Justin and Liam on various trips together and their many antics.
so far they have one antic and it is the bars
Rocz saying “gesumbah-h” for GmbH was very endearing but also entirely expected
You would usually say all the letters so it’s pronounced “geh em beh hah” if you’re gonna be american about it
When I was a little American boy, my brain pronounced it as a mumble starting with G, like Gm-buh.
My personal record for consecutive sneezes is 33, back-to-back. I got so frustrated that I punched a hole in the wall, but they didn't stop. My girlfriend thought I was having some sort of neurological event, like a stroke or something.
holy shit, i remember seeing a "seconds from disaster" episode about this when i was like 9, and never saw heard anything about it again. i know this is a weird thing to say, but thanks for reminding me of this terrible disaster that killed several dozen people and presenting it in the way that only you folks do.
Having both worn hard hats at work and worked in a hard hat factory I can state beyond a doubt that hard hat colors have no consistent meanings. It's all down the company or the jobsite. My first job it was red hats that were new, no other company on site had more than one color. Sometimes green is used for supervisors or people with certain medical or safety training because it's one of the less common hard hat colors that you'll come across.
Shout out to everyone rocking a robin egg blue hard hat, it was probably a pain in the ass for at least one person at the factory.
I feel like I Mandela effected myself into thinking you had done this one already, but realized I had watched like 1.5 other CZcams documentaries having insomnia. In any case throwing this on during work tomorrow.
Yeah I get deja vu cause of Fascinating Horrors
@@thehand7902 I rewatched that one *yesterday*. So i got both Bader-Meinhoff'd and freaked out when this one dropped.
I have a similar thing with the movie Riddick. I only think it’s a good idea to watch it after 36h of wakefulness. I must have thought to myself on 4 separate occasions “these dog things seem very familiar, I think he’s going to make friends with one next…” before I realised what was going on.
Yeah, it was covered. But I don't mind it getting covered again by others.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one
As a pizza delivery driver, I prefer the patented "park anywhere lights", that double as hazard lights.
The magic words when someone says "you can't park here" are "I'm unloading cargo." 😁
@@EllieODaire "I'm unloading PIZZA"
The picture of the industrial mixer reminded me of a baking job I had where the wand was stuck to the mixer and the giant bowl didn't have a sink nearly big enough for washing it so we had to put old boxes on the floor, scrape the batter off the wand and clean it off with paper towel every time we used it and washing a three foot tall metal mixing bowl in basically a laundry sink
Stand mixer (at least the Kitchen Aid type) is a bad example as they have barely changed since the 30s, they now have a solid state switching system, but that's about it. AVE did really nice teardown of one about 5 years ago and was rather impressed IIRC.
Love you guys. Wore my WTYP "cars bad" shirt a week and a half ago on a day trip to Mt. Rainier. The shirt (and I) had a great time.
Thank you for my weekly dose of laughing in the face of disaster. Yay Liam.
Yay Liam.
Who else heard “Adams Family crypt” and immediately their mind went “dunh-na-na-na snap snap”
It took a hot second for me to realize they meant like John adams et al.
Their pod is a museum
With Alice, Rocz and Liam,
They really are a scre-am,
The Problem family
According to my understanding, tension piles still support the weight of the building. They are not piles that ONLY support tension, but rather piles that CAN support tension due to additional rebar that was left out of the cheaper, more basic compression-only piles.
Modifications 'included splitting the units into two parts and bypassing the overheating protection circuit'. Because of course they did.
I'm going back through WTYPs randomly, and I really like this Safety Third train guy. He needs to submit more stories.
i dont know where ross is going with the 'big hole' idea, but i am entirely on board.
I think it’s to lower sea level by digging a big hole that extends below sea level. It would maybe reduce evaporation~rainfall, too if you think about it
That's how sewage is taken care of by pros in Cities Skylines.
But also there have been ideas of blasting a canal from the Med to the Quatara Depression in Egypt (with nukes!) and flooding it, to reduce the rise in global seawater level.
I think the Big Hole plan is a very simple one: let's just say that the sea level has risen enough that there is an extra one bazillion gallons of water in the seas. Dig a hole big enough to hold one bazillion gallons, connect it to the sea so it fills with sea water, and the problem is solved because now the sea is back at it's original level.
That this is only addressing a symptom of the problem, that it is probably technically unfeasible, and that it would have some fairly horrific side-effects of its own is all part of the gag.
@@spyone4828 depends on where you put it and how poor the people are who live there now
@@MrTaxiRob and that there aren't any lizards living there.
flame decals make it go faster, that's just science.
Alice once said that she goes to great lengths to Americanize herself for this podcast, and it really does show. I guarantee no one else in Glasgow knows what a "SRT" is 😂
Sormone Replacement Therapy?
re: the green hat "imagine if that was his first day" bit at the start, one job i worked at an industrial site while they were digging a pit right up against the building's loading dock freight door & I was standing on the edge of the foundation in the doorway watching the pitwork for Reasons & a new coworker in my... department??? on their first day was sent by the boss to me for onboarding & they stood with me talking for a while, then they went "hey which way is the can" & I told them where the portopotties were and they took 1 step forward off the ledge we had been standing on for 20 minutes and fell into the pit looney-tunes style. Fired immediately on their first day
fun fact, this disaster happened 4 days before I was born: can only assume I am the reincarnation of one of the victims and my past life trauma just gave me a morbid interest in engineering disasters
by this logic, i'm john lennon
@@nailati imagine that...
I am so glad I discovered this podcast last week. I would not have been prepared for the Building Fall Down. Now I know how to process these things.
As someone who's been accepting Gmod commissions over steam for years, I can agree that receiving a Steam message has the same energy as realizing Freddy Kruger is currently inside your fucked up secondary-school ptsd stress-dream, and he's just lost interest in screwing around
Lawyers love gallows humor too. When I did public defender work, we love to swap stories about the most fucked up things/stupid clients we got saddled with. It was the only way to remain sane.
Tbh though, dead baby cases did ruin dead baby jokes for me. Even when you work with monsters on the regular, there are still things that disgust you.
Re: Phone Tracking
I am a 911 Dispatcher. I can't speak for all companies and areas but when we receive a 911 call at my very busy center from a Landline we always get a correct location. When we get it from a VoIP line it's accurate to the point that it was properly changed to the owners current address. As for cell phones we have multiple 'Phases'. Phase 1 is just the cell tower. Good luck finding the caller. Phase 2 is accurate within 500 meters but usually within much less. I'd say about 85% of the cell phone calls I take are Cell Phone Phase 2 calls and unless you are in an apartment or high-rise I will locate you probably about 90% of the time. The last one is new. Phase 3. This is carrier style tracking. It's always on. I can always ping it. And it's always accurate within 500 meters. Up until very recently I am pretty sure this tech was reserved for actual cell phone carriers and we could only beg for it in case of true emergent nature (someone said they shot themselves and hung up before we could get a better address for instance).
Thanks for the podcast friends. Always a joy to listen to.
It's easy to diagnose the exact cause of engineering faults in the Miami building collapse: the front fell off. It obviously wasn't built so the front wouldn't fall off.
Thought I'd already watched a WTYP on this, then remembered it was Fascinating Horror. Now to stick the real WTYP ep in my brain.
Fascinating Horror: To get a straight forward, thorough but concise understanding of the disaster and its wider consequences.
These folks: To learn everything about a disaster and dissolve into unexpected fits of laughter along the way.
Wait I'm like, legitimately here early(ish). Hi. Love to Alice from another trans person. Love to all of you for cool podcast and cool people-ism. Trains good, cars bad. And I hope everyone reading this is having a good day, night, whenever, too
I’m also trans! Happy Wrath Month!
Oh hey plenty of us in this comment section! We should make shirts.
Trans Agenda Agent reporting for duty gib hormones pl0x o7
sup fello train tran
Hey, good vibes in the comment section!? This is both novel and welcome 😊
The consumer-grade vs commercial-grade discussion reminded me again of the Titan sub guy, and how excited he was to get the lights and other equipment from Camperworld. So he could go down into one of the most dangerous places on Earth with equipment never rated for anything like the purpose he was using it for. x_x Great plan.
Straya gang, 2:22pm release on a Friday so I can listen on company time 🔥🔥🔥
Just make sure you only *pretend* to drop a deuce on company time while you watch it. Don’t want to double book there.
Straya gang calling a sickie.
Interestingly enough, right to repair might be the avenue with which publishers actively making video games unplayable after purchase, e.g. by shutting down the servers without offering a patch that completes the client software with the missing server information, might be made illegal in future. Emphasis on might be.
Before I watch: Holy fuck, so now there’s a WTYP episode on a disaster in the place I go skiing each year which I had no idea happened
Happy Birthday Kaprun Disaster. You're 21 today so go get turnt up.
I got one of those this happened today pages that mentioned this and thought this seems like the type of thing that WTYP would cover and here I am.
Thanks for making me laugh and feel marginally less depressed about the mass casualty event with HAVEN'T GOT THAT SLOPPY WET.
This just in: it has been determined that instead of Frankie piles, the contractors installed hemorrhoidal piles under the building.
Glad I ended up not being able to sleep so I could catch this.
Those who say that the really big hole won't solve climate change vastly underestimate how really big it will be
It was on fire a lot.
- Justin Rozniak 2021
25:25 Love the Kitchen Aid Corner, wouldn't mind if it became a recurring bit
I'm here for it
The debate about the relative complexity of the funiculars and the Space Shuttle gives me cause to contemplate a funicular to the Moon.
Someone needs to make an online Xbox calculator with values in different currencies so that the gang have a quicker time of it.
“Thats how I got into gender”
I actually laughed out loud :) ty alice
What makes this disaster truely horrible is what you needed to do to survive. You needed to walk toward the fire in order to escape, as the smoke was rising toward the top of the tunnel, typically you want to get away from the fire but the way the tunnel was you couldnt do that as that was where all the smoke and other fun stuff went. The volunteer firefighter is the true MVP of this entire thing as he realized this and went toward the fire to escape, leading a small group. Without him, there probably wouldnt have been survivors.
Also for anyone curious there is a Seconds from Disaster episode on Kaprun
When the upload timing turns the podcast into an ASMR session
If people had skiboots on while this is going on, even if they got out of the car, they would have to climb stairs with shoes like bricks.
28:17 idk why but thinking about the incalculable waste that Uber has created by using consumer vehicles instead of fleet vehicles pisses me off so much that I'm gonna have to pause the podcast in scream in to a pillow for a minute. fucking killing polar bears through shit like this makes my blood boil.
43:29 "Whatever the Austrian Home Depot is"
You are weird with your historical/ww2/nazi stereotypes.
The first thing that came to my mind was "Fritzl Depot".
The actual Austrian home depot is almost as funny. It's literally called BAUHAUS
They would probably get a giggle out of "Hornbach" and "Hellweg". "Quester" is also a real one.
30:00 our stand up mixer was from 1975 and it got a free carbon-fiber clutch pack upgrade from Hobart in 2015. it actually had a transmission because the 2hp motor only ran at one speed, and also lifted and lowered the bowl. We had to use bailing wire to hold the speed selector in place
Solid C average podcast listener checking in right here
I love that Justin completely walked past "when's Franklin coming out?" after Liam announced that he has an update about Intl Shipping. Great ep.
I'm a bit late to the party - your podcast is amazing and I am trying to listen/watch all of them. Anyway, I am a train driver (or engineer in US speak) from Germany but I run freight trains via Austria to Italy. One outcome of this disaster was that "low voltage" systems in the cab, that were battery powered (i.E. not shut down if the catenary line/main switch was out), had to be removed (or specifically certified I believe). In practice that meant on our locomotives the telephones that were installed had to go because they were the type that would typically be installed in a car back then. (At this time, cellphones were just starting to be available, so not every engineer had a cellphone, instead the dispatcher could call the locomotive's phone).
"you'd have to anticipate the nut" -Roz, 2021
I mean, if the fire is downhill, and you drop and roll to put out fire.... just Roll Down the hill through the fire. The hill will make you roll extra fast so you can put out the fire as it catches you.
Cheese rolling: flambé edition
Noticing a disturbing lack of 3 hour episodes
Nice to see WTYP finally cover the Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster during the god damn news. I knew it could be covered briefly: simply make the bridge wider and you'll avoid the pitfalls of building a narrow rigid bridge!
The company Mr. Mixer specializes in Kitchen aid stand mixer repair. You can send it in or order parts and use his tutorials. Not sponsored, just a fan.
Istanbul has a lot of big funiculars, mainly below ground. (It's a very hilly city.)
I initially misheard "Austrian leader exports" as "Austrian Lieder exports" and wondered if Rocz was talking about Schubert!
Woo! Perth WA represent! ... also nice to know I'm literally as far away as humanly possible from this disaster.
this is a union comment section
Just got back from a road trip, depressed because my cat pissed all over my house. This is good timing.
Yay cat
@@williamchamberlain2263 yeah, I can't help myself but support her decisions, her piss is praxis I guess.
@@frank6842 [Russian national anthem drop]
@@frank6842
There's this stuff called "nature's miracle," and a different product called "out." This stuff helps break down and get rid of cat pee odor (probably dog or human pee too) with enzymes.
Source: ex-wife had 9 cats.
...She named them all in the divorce decree.😳
Edit: Enzyme cleaners work better than baking soda, which is a cheaper alternative. But if you have carpet, and the urine has soaked it, you're still going to have to shampoo.
@@grmpEqweer oh trust me I have the red super bottle
43:48 What's the worst that an angry Austrian is going to do?
This podcast really has gone... _downhill_ in content recently.
Also, a new gender-neutral bathroom complex named the Donald at Rumsfeld has just opened.
Ha! Yeah, rest in piss…
Rot in Piss, Rummy
Bon voyage Rumsfeld, ya f∆ckin' ghoul.🍻
Rummy gonna meet Saddam in person again
I told y'all in the last Florida State video that Florida is an engineering disaster waiting to happen.
Edit: The Flame Decals add 5 horse power to the Kitchen Aid Mixer.
Kids/vandals tampering with switches has caused a whole bunch of derailments over the years, but you're probably thinking of the April 12, 2001 VIA Rail derailment in Stewiacke, Nova Scotia. Little assholes busted the lock off an industrial spur switch and the handle vibrated up and the points opened under the train.
I rode it like a year before this happened... and didn't realize how narrow that was... I remember it being quite space-y inside.
Also didn't realize that they actually sealed the tunnel and dismantled everything afterwards. Would have expected that they would just continue to use it.
My messed up sleep schedule thanks you for this gift.
They built a funicular as a city vanity project in my hometown of Edmonton, Alberta like 3 years ago
In Germay the earliest train control systems are from the 50s, called PZB (Partial train influence), and work using magnets attached to rails ahead of signals.
LZB (Linear train influence) is the follow-up designed for speeds above 100mph, being a cable in the middle of the tracks which provides in-cab signalling and can automatically accelerate and brake trains.
Currently ETCS is in development, which is supposed to be a uniform signal system for all of Europe's railways. If I remember correctly it'll allow for full autonomous operation and be integrated with automatic couplings (Currently also in development), theoretically allowing for automated shunting.
So safe to say that PTC is about 70 years behind modern safety systems and barely a step above no system at all.