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June 9
[edit]Map symbol
[edit]On a map (such as a track diagram of an industrial area such as a harbor or a quarry), how does one draw a very broad-gauge track (such as that for a crane)? In particular, how does one draw such a track if: (a) it straddles one or more standard-gauge and/or narrow-gauge railroad tracks; or (b) the track in question is also a funicular? (I know the symbol for a normal funicular all right, but what of a funicular on which, for example, either of the cars can carry two sets of narrow-gauge cars side-by-side?) 2601:646:8082:BA0:5838:6E51:4BB8:DB85 (talk) 23:43, 9 June 2025 (UTC)
- You can draw it however you like. There is no consistency or standard for map symbols. Even the Ordnance Survey uses different symbols at different scales. I suggest you look at a map of an area that includes a crane track (or funicular) and see how it's represented. Shantavira|feed me 08:44, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
- Tried to look up maps of Dinorwic Quarry (which used to have a funicular of the sort I described here), but no luck -- all of the maps I could find were either too small to show these kinds of details, or else were made after the quarry was decommissioned and therefore showed hiking trails instead of railroad tracks :-( 2601:646:8082:BA0:1881:7267:DD7D:636D (talk) 22:41, 12 June 2025 (UTC)
- Can you make anything out on this map? (Quarry is in bottom left.) I see tracks, but no special symbols. Card Zero (talk) 18:33, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
- I can make it out all right, and I don't see any special symbols either because there are none -- the inclines are just shown as ordinary railroad tracks with the word "Incline" beside them! (On the map I'm making, which is of the Blue Mountain Quarry on the Island of Sodor, I use a different symbology -- I use a dashed line with circles for both ropeways and funiculars, with a label saying either "Ropeway" or "Funicular", in the latter case also showing the gradient, 77% (!!!) in the case of the incline at BMQ.) 2601:646:8082:BA0:49CD:9100:D068:6208 (talk) 22:12, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
- Can you make anything out on this map? (Quarry is in bottom left.) I see tracks, but no special symbols. Card Zero (talk) 18:33, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
- Tried to look up maps of Dinorwic Quarry (which used to have a funicular of the sort I described here), but no luck -- all of the maps I could find were either too small to show these kinds of details, or else were made after the quarry was decommissioned and therefore showed hiking trails instead of railroad tracks :-( 2601:646:8082:BA0:1881:7267:DD7D:636D (talk) 22:41, 12 June 2025 (UTC)