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Dr. Zalka Csenge VirágSo I caught the recruiting tram again and made more photos for all you dorks 😄
(This is a tram that runs in Budapest that has clear paneling so you can see the inner workings. They use it to recruit engineers and mechanics for public transport.)
Airplanista 🇺🇦@TarkabarkaHolgy Thx for this Zalka, I had no idea a tram needed that much wiring, equipment and tech to zoom down the tracks. Brilliant idea to recruit enginers and spark new career aspirations for young kids. I love Budapest.
Wildduck@Av8rdan @TarkabarkaHolgy I don't remember exactly if it was for a 2000's or a super recent double deck train but I heard that on average, for each meter of length there was 1 km of cables.
I wouldn't be surprised that the same is true for a modern liner airplane ? 😊
I wouldn't be surprised that the same is true for a modern liner airplane ? 😊
@Wildduck @TarkabarkaHolgy
Quick Google for the answer:
"A narrow-body airliner such as the Boeing 737NG has as much as 40 miles of wiring. The wide-body Boeing 747 has 150 miles of wires, but the “Queen of the Skies” is topped by the double-decker Airbus A380, which has over 320 miles of cables.”
When Managing Aircraft Weight Comes Down to the Wire - APEX
APEX Insight: In the slim-margins airline business, increasing aircraft payload or improving fuel efficiency can come down to the wire. Passengers are likely to be unaware of the complexity of the aircraft systems that are hidden from view. After all, their onboard interactions are limited to aircraft seats, flight attendants and in-flight entertainment systems. Like […]
Bill, organizer of stuff@TarkabarkaHolgy This reminds me of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, where they put transparent panels into all sorts of usual infrastructure in the building so that visitors could see how everything worked...
sorry 🇵🇸☭@TarkabarkaHolgy ebbe nagyon belefutnék már
Ciara@TarkabarkaHolgy That’s a brilliant concept. Both for recruiting and for just letting passengers see what goes into it all. Lovely - thanks for sharing.
GMate8@TarkabarkaHolgy nem hittem volna ilyen létezik
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Polychrome 
@TarkabarkaHolgy neat!! 
Philip Hofstetter@TarkabarkaHolgy @cks that would probably have worked in me in my past 😀
Joël Franušić@pilif @TarkabarkaHolgy @cks I have a very rewarding career already but I can feel the pull. What a brilliant recruiting strategy
enterprisey@TarkabarkaHolgy what an excellent idea!
aaron@TarkabarkaHolgy
Hand up if you would be very late for work every day ✋
Hand up if you would be very late for work every day ✋
JeanPoole@rk5075 - would you be more or less likely, to have become a train driver - if you could've seen inside the Metro trains?
Ron K@jeanpoole Inside, you say? 😁
@jeanpoole That's pretty cool, tbh 👍🏼
maloki 🍍
@TarkabarkaHolgy That's pretty damn cool and clever though!
zodarr@TarkabarkaHolgy That's a Tatra T5C5-K if I'm right, it has the newer "regulator" (the "brain" of the tram car) in the back.
Taco Dave
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Jim Nelson@TarkabarkaHolgy San Francisco's Cable Car Museum shows visitors the running cable, diesel engines, repair shop, and underground wheels used for operating the cable cars. (The museum is inside the cable car barn.).
Steampunk engineering still in operation today.
Jo Dusepo 
جوهانا دوسپو
Karel P Kerezman@TarkabarkaHolgy OK but no joke I kind of want to work on that stuff now. (Too bad I'm a 50-plus-year-old IT dork living on the wrong continent.)
Frost, wolf of winter 🐺🎄
@TarkabarkaHolgy oh now THAT's a way to recruit people! Wow that's so cool!
qwazix@TarkabarkaHolgy wow everything should be like that
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@TarkabarkaHolgy pure locomotive porn, I love it
Phil M0OFX@TarkabarkaHolgy That's dangerous... Because it's exactly the sort of thing which might get me to knock on their door and enquire. If not about a job, certainly a tour!
Robin Syl 🌸
@TarkabarkaHolgy yes I very much want to work there now but unfortunately I did not study engineering
Anna Nicholson@TarkabarkaHolgy This is super cool! 😎
All tram networks (and train networks) should have something like this! 😊
Benjamin Herrin@TarkabarkaHolgy I think a lot of infrastructure should be like this to show the complexity and to kindle curiosity in how things work rather than people thinking they work because they have worked in the past.
Jesse Morris@TarkabarkaHolgy @nev This is great IDK why they make all the other trains opaque
nev@aubilenon @TarkabarkaHolgy i assume because it would distract too many railfans
Voline@TarkabarkaHolgy @siracusa Nerd-bait!