The pics thread

The Olympics are clearly biased against Indians. I mean, this shit is an Olympic sport but Elephant racing isn't?

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Also if towing overweight white people on a cart strapped to the back of your bike was an Olympic cycling event, India would also clearly win.
 
So I've been handling a 60 years old electric locomotive all week and took some photos from the inside. It's pretty cool, feels abit voctorian mad scientist about everything. The speed/power output is regulated using a mechanical tap changer on the high voltage side (16000V).

First some random shots:
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Picture of the housing for the eliptical gears driving the tap changers (bottom half of the picture) top half is a indicator that shows the position of the tap connectors and in turn how much output to the motors you have (there is also a handle to manually turn the tap changer if the motor is damaged). The grating is for safety (high voltage behind it):
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If you go behind the grating you see the motor turning the tap changer and alot of safety contacts ensuring that it doesn't stop in the wrong place (between two positions):
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A picture of one of the air compressors for the break system:
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And a picture of the drivers cab:
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To be fair, he probably won't make America great again either. I doubt that he will change much of anything if elected even though he talks big.