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| Author: | softwerkslex [ Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Milan Gauntlet Track |
If you ever visit the science museum in Milan, Italy (which has a huge rail collection), step outside and look at the abandoned tram line on the perimeter. I first saw it in 1988, and it had been out of service for years even then. I am surprised it is still there, but Google street view clearly shows it. Check out the gauntlet track at the intersection. https://www.google.com/maps/place/4000+Roskilde+County/@45.461721,9.168504,3a,75y,355.45h,87.27t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1spJ0V2P_XEagr2yreueJ42A!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x46525fc995012f29:0xa00afcc1d507710 |
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| Author: | wilkinsd [ Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Milan Gauntlet Track |
If you ever wanted to know why those Milan Peter Witt cars were so narrow, you have your answer in this image. |
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| Author: | softwerkslex [ Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Milan Gauntlet Track |
Follow the track, and check out this section further along. They replaced the pavement, and in a section where they had to remove the rail, they cosmetically restored the rail with stone. https://www.google.com/maps/@45.462654,9.172663,3a,75y,301.48h,64.53t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sLF1-uVSODj9em68IRkQa8Q!2e0 |
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| Author: | Trainlawyer [ Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Milan Gauntlet Track |
GANTLET!!! GME (replaces red felt tip in humidor on desk) |
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| Author: | wilkinsd [ Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Milan Gauntlet Track |
Trainlawyer wrote: (replaces red felt tip in humidor on desk) If you are keeping a red, felt-tip pen in the humidor on your desk, you are misusing the humidor. |
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| Author: | weekendrailroader [ Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Milan Gauntlet Track |
Nearly a Grand Union here: https://www.google.com/maps?ll=45.46619,9.164921&spn=0.000581,0.001024&cbll=45.46619,9.164921&layer=c&panoid=ayf5N1btf4Svn3Xk_kZvkw&cbp=12,309.22,,0,17.74&t=h&z=21 |
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| Author: | Ray Reter [ Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Milan Gauntlet Track |
Trainlawyer wrote: GANTLET!!! GME (replaces red felt tip in humidor on desk) Put the red marker away. Gauntlet is acceptable according to Merriam-Webster. :) -- Ray |
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| Author: | Brian Norden [ Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Milan Gauntlet Track |
Ray Reter wrote: Put the red marker away. Gauntlet is acceptable according to Merriam-Webster. :) My American Heritage dictionary says that "gauntlet" is acceptable for both meanings in modern English. And it shows "gantlet" as a variant.Under usage it says. at one time, the different spellings denoted the different meanings and origins: One threw down the gauntlet. One ran the gantlet. Gauntlet was a glove or a cuff of a glove and one threw down a glove (or gauntlet) to issue a challenge. Gantlet was two rows of men with sticks or weapons to beat a person forced to run between the rows. Thus this is an ordeal or trial (like a political press conference) a narrow a narrow passageway (like gantlet track through a bridge or tunnel). So be modern, or traditional, or don't care at all. |
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| Author: | robertmacdowell [ Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Milan Gauntlet Track |
Pantograph! |
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| Author: | weekendrailroader [ Tue Mar 11, 2014 11:03 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Milan Gauntlet Track |
English spelling can be a gray area sometimes, and a grey area at others. ;) |
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| Author: | Bobharbison [ Tue Mar 11, 2014 11:18 am ] | ||
| Post subject: | Re: Milan Gauntlet Track | ||
Yep...
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| Author: | softwerkslex [ Tue Mar 11, 2014 12:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Milan Gauntlet Track |
Love that cartoon. Sorry, I remember being corrected here on this same word a year or two ago. I don't use it often enough. |
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| Author: | bbunge [ Tue Mar 11, 2014 3:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Milan Gauntlet Track |
Trolley bus and panagraph shared space in Geneva. See how the bus trolleys are way over to the side.  Bob |
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| Author: | softwerkslex [ Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Milan Gauntlet Track |
...because the bus voltage is different than the tram voltage, and they can't share a wire? |
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| Author: | PaulWWoodring [ Tue Mar 11, 2014 4:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Milan Gauntlet Track |
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not primarily a traction person, but I believe that trolley buses work electrically very differently from rail traction, in that with an electric street railway the track serves as the ground/return, while the bus needs the second wire above as the return. |
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