OTHER Canfranc Station

Kurt Moose Oct 29, 2019

  1. Kurt Moose

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  2. Hardcoaler

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    Holy smokes! Looks like a Kibri plastic kitbash project gone wild.

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  3. Kurt Moose

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    Yeah it does! The show had a drone going over the whole site, it's massive!!
     
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  4. BoxcabE50

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    I wonder if it is truly "abandoned", or simply out of service?
     
  5. Kurt Moose

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    The show I was watching said it was closed for almost 40+ years, only recently there is interest in it.
     
  6. ddechamp71

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    BTW this depot is not fully abandonned : the railroad still operates on its spanish side, with a few moves to and from Zarragoza every day. But the line to/from France has been withdrawn from use for nearly 50 years after a mud slide that wipped a bridge off. And afterwards, owing to its deep preference to highway, French gov't took the opportunity to broaden the neighbouring road biting on railroad's ROW, thus making it now very difficult to rebuild. There are some talks about this some time to time but no one should expect to see this line living again.

    But all this doesn't explain this airport concourse sized depot in the middle of nowhere, I do agree.:D

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    The above picture shows a spanish railcar, rolling on spanish railroad system's broad gauge track (1.672 meter, I don't know how it relates to US measurement system.. ;) ).

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  7. BoxcabE50

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    US is 4 feet 8.5 inches, so 1.672 meter is a good amount wider.
     
  8. ddechamp71

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    Yep, about 24 centimeters more.. ;)

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    24 cm equals 9.453 inches.
     
  10. ddechamp71

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    Yep, sounds good, but I'm too lazy to calculate..:LOL:

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  11. acptulsa

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    Five foot 5.8"

    Never heard of it. Usually one system or the other produces a round number. Leave it to the French... :confused:
     
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  12. Hardcoaler

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    I finally saw the episode and it's indeed pretty interesting. If others are seeking it, the name of the episode is Arctic Hell Pit, as for another segment featuring a Russian deep drilling project.
     
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