Really great pictures.
Somewhat on topic, a bridge over the Ebro at Zaragoza´s Expo08: http://tinyurl.com/5gtcs7
A lot of slides that actually seem brighter than real life and the Ebro is a creek compared to the Danube.
Really OT, for DoDo: I had a mixed experience on the AVE/duck this week: I saw one leaving the station and it was really quiet from the outside; at least at low speed. It´s well insulated too, because on the way back at night we had a huge downpour with hail and we could barely hear anything. I think it´s also my first experience of a Spanish train that runs on time!
On the negative side, there were many spots where the train seemed to fish tail from one rail to the other, which brought me to attention. Then the glass shelf above the seats kept rattling against the fixtures and driving me up the wall. I finally hang my purse from shade hook and that stopped it. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
The bridge is indeed long, but it can and could be walked: one side was opened for cyclists, the other for walkers exclusively;and once it's open, there is a walkway on both sides. On the open day, these weren't yet open, and there were guards every 50 metres who'd ask every trespasser to behave. (Me too, though I didn't trespass, just climbed up on the side railing to photograph the Western river arm - a railing pretty strong, impossible my weight wouzld have dented it...) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Hm, interesting (from a professional point of view).
I always wondered how the Talgo can run high-speed without bogies. Bogies (that is those frames with two wheelsets in them that rotate relative to the carbody) have a natural stability of running (at least below a critical speed). The Talgos have single wheelsets between two adjoining cars. That should make it vulnerable to sideways swings in a caterpillar fashion. So, some springs and dampers do the job instead. But it appears Talgo's engineers haven't completely solved this coasting problem for high speed... *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
