Abt switch

The Abt switch is a kind of railway switch used on funiculars (inclined cable railways) that doesn’t have any moving parts. It allows two cars to pass each other going uphill/downhill while sharing the same tracks. While most train switches rely on physically moving a section of track so the train goes one way or the other, the abt switch doesn’t move at all. Instead each carriage has a grooved wheel which makes it turn left or right at a junction by sticking to the track on one side.

Image sources

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Funicular_to_Horseshoe_Curve_viewing_area_(8999490400).jpg#mw-jump-to-license

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Funicular_layouts_(2_rails).svg#mw-jump-to-license

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heidelberg_funicular_wheelset.jpg#mw-jump-to-license


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    • BountifulEggnog [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Wanna relapse fuck this shit. god I fucking hate being trans and I fucking hate (most of) humanity for tormenting me.

      The best case scenario for being trans would still have left me with fucked up genitals but since that didn’t happen I have fucked up everything and PEOPLE ARE SO FUCKING EVIL HOLY SHIT

      Almost all of my problems stem from these fucking apes I have to share a space rock with. Literally how tf can you be trans, treated this way, and not be fucking misanthropic?? Like it genuinely just makes no sense to me. Is everyone else on some kinda mega copium or do they just handle feeling like this better then me or what the fuck? How the fuck do you be happy post puberty (and dealing with all the dysphoria and pain that comes from that) and in this fucking society, world?

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        Why am I such a stupid dumbass thinking there’s any way for me to make this work. I hate my shitty life and there’s not anything that’s going to help. I literally just have to kill myself. that is the only way out