Mer infrastruktur!

"Big Chute Marine Railway is a ship lift at Lock 44 of the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario, Canada. It works on an inclined plane to carry boats in a cradle (without a filled tank) over a change of height of about 18 metres. It is the only marine railway of its kind in North America still in use, and is overseen by federally operated Parks Canada."







Jojagtackarja! Marin järnbane. Det får mig direkt at tänke på min absolute drömmeferie: Dressin!



Er det i sommer det kommer til at ske?

"Draisine is spelled dressin in Sweden and dresin in Norway and dræsine in Denmark. In Finland the word is "resiina". Usually, dressin refers to pedal-powered rail-cycles which were used by railroad maintenance workers in Finland, Sweden and Norway until about 1950, as handcars were elsewhere.

Now dressins are used for recreation on several unused raillines in Germany, Sweden, Norway, Poland and some other European countries. There are several companies renting dressins in Sweden.

In Finland there has been annual competition "Resiina-ralli" (translates "Draisine Rally"), which involves several draisine teams traveling many days in the railroads from one corner of the country to another. The rally is televised and gathers great popularity among TV-viewers." -Wikipedia



Igår aftes var jeg ude og löbede i regnvejr. Meget dejligt. Indtil jeg löbede ind i en stolpe. Idag er jeg lidt forköled og har ondt i mit ben. Men det er ok. Imorgen skal jeg tegne plan og snit.

3 comments:

  1. helt ærlig, når er det vi skal på dressinferie?

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  2. Det har jeg osse tænkt på. hva med den gamle amagerbane... det er også lang tid siden jeg har være på Amager. Cumberland er ikke nem at undvære. Nå tilbage til Dressinturen.... det ku være en mulig location til vores næste generalforsamling i Überspass. Vil passe godt til vores geobenægtende profil.

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  3. http://cgi.ebay.de/Eisenbahn-Draisine-Eigenbau-100-Spassfaktor-/160508212241?pt=Transportwesen&hash=item255f08f411

    OMG!!

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