Like isn't that kinds weird? A boat for trains. Like a boat-train synthesis. We only really need two kinds of transportation: trains and boats. Airplanes are just air boats.
Like isn't that kinds weird? A boat for trains. Like a boat-train synthesis. We only really need two kinds of transportation: trains and boats. Airplanes are just air boats.
When it's hard or too costly to build a bridge across a river
train-ferry is neat and all, but what about when its too costly to build a canal?
boat-train: a train that carries your boats across land.
:galaxy-brain:
And you even have true boat-train hybrids like this
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-rare-victorian-boat-train-sits-in-portmadog-station-88399784.html
well thats just adorable
This is an already implemented good idea.
just this one so far as im aware.
and thats less "trains carrying boats" than i would like, cause theres not like a long line of boats on rails that are all tethered together in a long train, its more boat goes on rail carriage down a hill.
are there any more trainlike boat-trains?
:bean-think:
edit: by "this one" i mean the type of thing, where its an inclined plane that uses a counterbalance to move boats around, not just like.. that specific one
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_inclined_plane
yes, thats literally what i was talking about. these. not train enough.
its like calling a mine cart a train because it goes on a rail
That essentially exists
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Chute_Marine_Railway
It also makes sense when you consider it's also a good alternative to a tunnel.