Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/13/watch-this-mesmerizing-spiral.html
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I wish I could have shown this to my father, who loved all sorts of trains, both full-size and models. He would have loved this.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
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There must be at least one more spiral like it outside of the video frame. Either that, or the room is really big, or they are adding and removing train cars really quickly.
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I guess spreading the locomotives throughout the train help to prevent derailments on those tight curves.
The second one reminds me of proposals to use long trains on mountains for energy storage.
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I was hoping the front car would meet up with the last car as it entered the spiral and the cycle would continue endlessly.
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I was hoping the same thing!
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Hobo wet dream… or nightmare?
PS: This looks like one of those annoying 100+ freight car babies that freeze traffic here in the Valley. Oh, look. That one’s for horsies!
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Just add some height to it, and you’re nearly at a real bit of track:
Okay, now I have to post thisL
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If I had more time to procrastinate I would have slowed that down and watched it again. Maybe repeatedly.
The artist JR did something similar:
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must…buy…trains,
must…buy…trains,
must…buy…trains…
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Eight engines. One less than the number of spirals.
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I want to know what the rest of the track looks like.
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“hobo wet dream”… somehow that makes me feel quite sad. perhaps a dark, sleazy corner of the big rock candy mountain.
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Did not fill track. Was disappoint.
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If the spiral had a flying junction, the train could be even longer than the spiral.
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I posit that that is exactly what this is! Thanks for sharing.
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And if the camera was surrounded by a loop of track it could then be endless…
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