That’s a whale of a tale (of a tail of whale)
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Its gone from a railway to whaleway 
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Is this from the new art book by Simon Stålenhag?
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A little info from the website of the engineering firm:
In 2001, Solico was commissioned by the Municipality of Rotterdam to provide structural engineering for two composite whale tails reaching twelve and fourteen meters high respectively. Rotterdam experiences a lot of strong wind which has resulted in vibration issues with other nearby projects. To avoid having these same issues in the whale tails, their shapes were tested in a wind tunnel. The results were used by Solico to design strong and stiff composite whale tails. This was done by extensive FEA analyses. Maropol built and installed the two giant tails.
The whale tails consist of two parts, which are referred to as the “body” and the “tail”. The body has a steel lattice interior structure, cladded with 6 mm glassfibre reinforced polyester. The tail, on which the metro train is resting, doesn’t include a steel support, and the load is taken by the composite material alone. A lightning conductor is integrated in the tail.
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It’s like they put it there on porpoise…
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