top | item 38989455 (no title) monomers | 2 years ago > train composed of heavy-axle rail cars has an upper limit of about 160 tons.1000 axles sounds doable, but maybe not very practical. discuss order hn newest m4rtink|2 years ago Well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Compagnie_des_glacesRail based mobile fortresses with hundreds of powered axles are a totally normal thing in this setting.All it took was a new ice age & railway comapnies taking over what remained from human kind and banning all non-rail based vehicles.End result - no cars, tanks, airplanes, ships (well, nowhere to use those anyway), with everything on rails. :-)
m4rtink|2 years ago Well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Compagnie_des_glacesRail based mobile fortresses with hundreds of powered axles are a totally normal thing in this setting.All it took was a new ice age & railway comapnies taking over what remained from human kind and banning all non-rail based vehicles.End result - no cars, tanks, airplanes, ships (well, nowhere to use those anyway), with everything on rails. :-)
m4rtink|2 years ago
Rail based mobile fortresses with hundreds of powered axles are a totally normal thing in this setting.
All it took was a new ice age & railway comapnies taking over what remained from human kind and banning all non-rail based vehicles.
End result - no cars, tanks, airplanes, ships (well, nowhere to use those anyway), with everything on rails. :-)