The Tokaido Shinkansen continues operating in conditions that would shut down most rail systems.
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The Tokaido Shinkansen continues operating in conditions that would shut down most rail systems.
**Engineering behind it:**
🔹 Advanced snow detection sensors
🔹 Heated track switching systems
🔹 Aerodynamic design prevents snow buildup
🔹 Real-time monitoring & predictive maintenance
🔹 Automated de-icing systemsSince 1964, the Shinkansen has maintained a perfect safety record while running at 320 km/h.
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The Tokaido Shinkansen continues operating in conditions that would shut down most rail systems.
**Engineering behind it:**
🔹 Advanced snow detection sensors
🔹 Heated track switching systems
🔹 Aerodynamic design prevents snow buildup
🔹 Real-time monitoring & predictive maintenance
🔹 Automated de-icing systemsSince 1964, the Shinkansen has maintained a perfect safety record while running at 320 km/h.
@xavierdatatech What about the water jets??
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The Tokaido Shinkansen continues operating in conditions that would shut down most rail systems.
**Engineering behind it:**
🔹 Advanced snow detection sensors
🔹 Heated track switching systems
🔹 Aerodynamic design prevents snow buildup
🔹 Real-time monitoring & predictive maintenance
🔹 Automated de-icing systemsSince 1964, the Shinkansen has maintained a perfect safety record while running at 320 km/h.
@xavierdatatech Züge können bei Schnee fahren? Weiß das die Deutsche Bahn schon?..😂
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@xavierdatatech What about the water jets??
@A565Autobahn @xavierdatatech I believe they are used to keep the track lines clear of accumulation. Here's a random product page for this sort of thing that describes the general use-case of keeping important part of the railway clear and shows a few different applications of the technique:
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@A565Autobahn @xavierdatatech I believe they are used to keep the track lines clear of accumulation. Here's a random product page for this sort of thing that describes the general use-case of keeping important part of the railway clear and shows a few different applications of the technique:
@A565Autobahn @xavierdatatech and since I fell partly down a little rabbit hole here, I'll also share an interesting little press release by JR Central in 2020 describing a modification to a sprinkler head to improve the performance of such a system in keeping built-up accumulation under control (the result of allowing air into the line means the water is spread more uniformly and the resulting surface is also more uniform)
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The Tokaido Shinkansen continues operating in conditions that would shut down most rail systems.
**Engineering behind it:**
🔹 Advanced snow detection sensors
🔹 Heated track switching systems
🔹 Aerodynamic design prevents snow buildup
🔹 Real-time monitoring & predictive maintenance
🔹 Automated de-icing systemsSince 1964, the Shinkansen has maintained a perfect safety record while running at 320 km/h.
Amazing 🤩
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@xavierdatatech Züge können bei Schnee fahren? Weiß das die Deutsche Bahn schon?..😂
@pawido Ich glaube @xavierdatatech wollte nur aufzaehlen was die DB alles NICHT hat 🤣 🤡
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The Tokaido Shinkansen continues operating in conditions that would shut down most rail systems.
**Engineering behind it:**
🔹 Advanced snow detection sensors
🔹 Heated track switching systems
🔹 Aerodynamic design prevents snow buildup
🔹 Real-time monitoring & predictive maintenance
🔹 Automated de-icing systemsSince 1964, the Shinkansen has maintained a perfect safety record while running at 320 km/h.
@xavierdatatech Meanwhile the German ICE can't run when there is ice on the tracks, because that would damage the sensitive underside....
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The Tokaido Shinkansen continues operating in conditions that would shut down most rail systems.
**Engineering behind it:**
🔹 Advanced snow detection sensors
🔹 Heated track switching systems
🔹 Aerodynamic design prevents snow buildup
🔹 Real-time monitoring & predictive maintenance
🔹 Automated de-icing systemsSince 1964, the Shinkansen has maintained a perfect safety record while running at 320 km/h.
The Japanese seem to practice a kind of Zen when it comes up to this train.🖖
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The Tokaido Shinkansen continues operating in conditions that would shut down most rail systems.
**Engineering behind it:**
🔹 Advanced snow detection sensors
🔹 Heated track switching systems
🔹 Aerodynamic design prevents snow buildup
🔹 Real-time monitoring & predictive maintenance
🔹 Automated de-icing systemsSince 1964, the Shinkansen has maintained a perfect safety record while running at 320 km/h.
@xavierdatatech The Shinkansen has not been running at 320 km/h since 1964.
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The Tokaido Shinkansen continues operating in conditions that would shut down most rail systems.
**Engineering behind it:**
🔹 Advanced snow detection sensors
🔹 Heated track switching systems
🔹 Aerodynamic design prevents snow buildup
🔹 Real-time monitoring & predictive maintenance
🔹 Automated de-icing systemsSince 1964, the Shinkansen has maintained a perfect safety record while running at 320 km/h.
@xavierdatatech This brings to mind a notorious episode with British Rail in 1991, with disruption caused by the unusual (for Britain) ‘type of snow’, which the media turned into British Rail blaming ‘the wrong type of snow’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_wrong_type_of_snow
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@xavierdatatech Züge können bei Schnee fahren? Weiß das die Deutsche Bahn schon?..😂
@pawido
Ich denke SBB und ÖBB haben ihr das schon gezeigt. 😉
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