• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    What’s in the image is (catenary) cable but funiculars use a counterbalanced mechanical cable system

    edit: oh, do you mean the cable laid in the tracks? That’s the cable hoist - but the cars aren’t counterbalanced so it’s not a funicular, it’s just a cable-car. A meaninglessly pedantic distinction in the real world *but in this house we commit to the bit nope I was hoisted by my own pedanticard on this one, it’s a true funicular just in an arrangement I’ve never seen before.

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      Your source (~4:12) definitely looks like a regular counterbalanced funi. Also, we’re not talking about the overhead cable here, right? Because I mean the other one. The one where you can even see wheel-thingy turn as the cable moves. (No idea what English name for that is)

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        Yeah that’s the cable I was talking about, I didn’t think it was visible in the image but realized you can see it on the second track.

        You’re right, though! This is a true funicular (a few people are saying it can drive single cars but operates primarily in couterbalance which I would kill to get to poke around the mechanical room to see how that works)

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        Your source (~4:12) definitely looks like a regular counterbalanced funi. Also, we’re not talking about the overhead cable here, right? Because I mean the other one. The one where you can even see wheel-thingy turn as the cavle moves. (No idea what English name for that is)

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        A meaninglessly pedantic distinction in the real world *but in this house we commit to the bit

        And that’s exactly how it should be 😄