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.

  • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    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:

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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

    • RNAi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      This is an already implemented good idea.

      • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        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

          • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            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

    • OgdenTO [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Chute_Marine_Railway