Can trains turn this sharp?

[IkeTheGeneric]

Can trains turn that sharp? The answer is very plain and simple to be no. The explanation is that trains turn gradually and that the map is simplified so it's easier to read and comprehend.

Why did you need help coming to this conclusion? It's very unlikely for a train to be capable of regularly making sharp 90° turns.

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[sir dooble]

If it's a tube train, then it doesn't matter that it has lots of carriages, because the carriages are likely connected to each other with a bendy springy section. Being articulated like this gives them a wider turning circle.
This is how the trains on the London Underground are like, for example.

It's how an articulated bus for example, can get around sharp-ish corners, despite being very long.



As for the original question, the tubemap is just a simplification of the routes. In order to make it easier to understand, as well as capable of being squeezed into a smaller space. The turns they make on the map only vaguely relate to the actual turns the tracks make.

[Lord Tony®]

Next time why can't you just answer the man's question

His question was already answered, multiple times.

Can trains turn that sharp? The answer is very plain and simple to be no. The explanation is that trains turn gradually and that the map is simplified so it's easier to read and comprehend.

Why did you need help coming to this conclusion? It's very unlikely for a train to be capable of regularly making sharp 90° turns.

no ya big goober. the track VEERS until it's facing whatever direction. the map is just a quick representation

what I'm guessing is that the train is made of like, 300 very short carriages or something to make a very sharpass turn

which btw is not 90, that's sounds impossible

hey I'm sitting on an infinite vault of accessible human knowledge, better spam Blockland for the answers

It takes an astronomical amount of energy to derail a train. How do you drive a car around a 90 degree bend and stay in the same lane? Similar concept. (the operative word being similar)

Trains don't break into corners like cars do. It's gradual. It probably reduces speed at a rate which you don't actually feel.

Either that, or it's just simply under the maximum speed it can take the corner at. We're gonna need more details than a blurry picture of an oversimplified Argentinian station map and your account of "pretty fast" if we want to brown townyse the situation further.

[Path]

His question was already answered, multiple times.

then why the forget are you still here Tony

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then why the forget are you still here Tony

[Path]

OP has the right to ask questions for his own sake. You, on the other hand, have no right criticizing and beating up the OP for asking a simple question. Unless you have some business here or care to share your train wisdom with OP, you really shouldn't be here.

And yes, bold text does make your post more valid

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Bold makes my post more valid

[IkeTheGeneric]

OP has the right to ask questions for his own sake. You, on the other hand, have no right criticizing and beating up the OP for asking a simple question. Unless you have some business here or care to share your train wisdom with OP, you really shouldn't be here.

And yes, bold text does make your post more valid

itt we pretend that you have rights on an internet forum

[Otis Da HousKat]