…from the Swiss Transport Museum.
Archive for December, 2013
Filed under Holidays, Lucerne 2013
Swiss Transport Museum – Spacelab Pallet
From the signboard:
British Aerospace Spacelab Pallet F003/MD004
The use of pallets for transport is not restricted to rail trucks. During the 1980s, British Aerospace produced a series of pallets for carrying experiments and cargo on the American space shuttle as part of the European Spacelab programme.
To utilise the available space as efficiently as possible, the Spacelab [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Dec 10th 2013
From information signboard:
Rotary snow-plough Xrot m No 100 Rotary Gotthard Railway GB 1895
The snow-plough body contains the boiler and a twin-cylinder steam engine driving the bucket wheel, which is nearly 3 metres in diameter. The cutting blades were adjustable to cope with the varying hardness of the drifts. The jet of snow that was hurled [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Dec 9th 2013
Filed under This & That
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
You cannot conceive the many without the one… The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.
Plato
10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 8th 2013
Filed under Anecdotes
It’s All in the Timing!!
I had just finished enjoying a lunch time bacon buttie when I heard a loud CRACK in the vicinity of the kitchen. The wind had just blown up outside, so I wondered if a branch had blown off a tree into the kitchen window.
I looked up and said, ‘what’s that?’ Mr C leapt up and [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Dec 8th 2013
To mark the inauguration of the Swiss Museum of Transport in 1959, the railway and model railway enthusiasts of Lucerne built a model representing the Gotthard north access ramp between Erstfeld and Wassen. They put in around 30,000 hours of voluntary work.
Ascending the mounting through helical tunnels – the Gotthard railway model shows Erstfeld station, [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Dec 7th 2013
Filed under Holidays, Lucerne 2013
Swiss Transport Museum – Swissair
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 6th 2013
