ShopDreamUp AI ArtDreamUp
Deviation Actions
Promoted Deviations
Suggested Deviants
Suggested Collections
Description
I promised to take a better picture of this more than a year ago, and now I finally got around to doing so. Sorry for the slight delay.
For those who only joined us recently, my university, the RWTH Aachen University, has it's own rail tracks. As a computer science student, that does not truly concern me, but it's always interesting to see what they have there, such as this slightly odd thing.
This thing is called the Cargo Mover and is based on the Cargo Sprinter platform - specifically Cargo Sprinter 690 001/501, parts of which (the cabs in particular) are still stored on the RWTHs tracks as well. The Cargo Sprinter was a project by DB to create a freight DMU specifically for containers. Operationally, it wasn't a success and was cancelled pretty shortly. The vehicle platform of basically a container flat car with motor and cab did prove popular in the MoW market, however, for example for cleaning rail heads in Britain (picture by ~CJSutcliffe) or as fire engines for swiss railway tunnels.
The Cargo Mover is a research project using the same platform, sans cabs. The idea is that it will drive fully automatically directly to the shipper, and will automatically couple and uncouple with others of its kind to form longer trains for the main part of the journey. That isn't easy, both because most german train lines have no in-cab signalling that could easily be reused, but also because DB is cutting connections to many shippers because they are not profitable enough...
I'm not sure what the container is doing on that vehicle, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's used as a place for researchers to stay during test work. I am pretty certain that the CM is not homologated for autonomous operation on public rails yet.
On my homepage
For those who only joined us recently, my university, the RWTH Aachen University, has it's own rail tracks. As a computer science student, that does not truly concern me, but it's always interesting to see what they have there, such as this slightly odd thing.
This thing is called the Cargo Mover and is based on the Cargo Sprinter platform - specifically Cargo Sprinter 690 001/501, parts of which (the cabs in particular) are still stored on the RWTHs tracks as well. The Cargo Sprinter was a project by DB to create a freight DMU specifically for containers. Operationally, it wasn't a success and was cancelled pretty shortly. The vehicle platform of basically a container flat car with motor and cab did prove popular in the MoW market, however, for example for cleaning rail heads in Britain (picture by ~CJSutcliffe) or as fire engines for swiss railway tunnels.
The Cargo Mover is a research project using the same platform, sans cabs. The idea is that it will drive fully automatically directly to the shipper, and will automatically couple and uncouple with others of its kind to form longer trains for the main part of the journey. That isn't easy, both because most german train lines have no in-cab signalling that could easily be reused, but also because DB is cutting connections to many shippers because they are not profitable enough...
I'm not sure what the container is doing on that vehicle, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's used as a place for researchers to stay during test work. I am pretty certain that the CM is not homologated for autonomous operation on public rails yet.
On my homepage
Image size
1500x1000px 1.54 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 1000D
Shutter Speed
1/256 second
Aperture
F/13.0
Focal Length
55 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Apr 1, 2009, 10:26:37 AM
Comments10
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
Overall Vision Originality
Technique ImpactOk, meine erste Kritik, dann auch gleich ein so "komisches" Fahrzeug. Ich habe so ein Teil noch nie gesehen, deshalb bin ich umso mehr beeindruckt davon und das, obwohl es ja gar nicht so beeindruckend aussieht.
Vom Grundsatz her gefällt mir das Bild sehr gut, vor allem die Belichtung und die Farben stimmen. Was mir weniger zusagt ist vor allem der linke Bildrand. Die Garage, oder was immer es auch ist, hätte ich so beschnitten dass das Tor komplett weg ist und hätte ungefähr die Hälfte der Seitenwand bis zur schwarzen Plane abgeschnitten. Unten rechts könnte man auch noch ein wenig abschneiden, so dass nur die Böschung zu sehen ist und oben würde ich die Hausfront so beschneiden dass vom Dach nichts mehr zu sehen ist. Du weißt dass ich knappere Bilder bevorzuge, es ist also mein ureigener Geschmack, von daher bezieht sich diese Kritik auf mich und nicht auf irgendwelche fotografischen Grundsätze. Als Hardcore-Alternative könnte man natürlich auch einen Crop nur vom Fahrzeug rausholen, aber ich denke dass es mit dem hellen Hintergrund des Containers und der Hauswand dann doch eher nicht wirken würde.
Vielen Dank für das zeigen des Bildes und vor allem auch der sehr ausfühlichen Beschreibung dazu, das macht das Bild umso wertvoller.
Tom