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Andreas Wiedenhoff<p><a href="https://rail.chat/tags/Ancona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ancona</span></a> 🇮🇹 yard in Autumn 2004: this is <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/FS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FS</span></a> <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/ETR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ETR</span></a>.401, built in the 1970s and, it seems, the world’s first <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/Pendolino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pendolino</span></a> tilting train in revenue earning service. The unit is being preserved as museum stock, I think. <br>The technology has since been widely used to increase running speed, and to reduce centrifugal force, when travelling through curves.</p>
Andreas Wiedenhoff<p><a href="https://rail.chat/tags/Trieste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trieste</span></a> 🇮🇹 Centrale earlier today: this is the <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/FS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FS</span></a> <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/Trenitalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trenitalia</span></a> <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/Frecciarossa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Frecciarossa</span></a> to <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/Milan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Milan</span></a>, via Venezia <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/Mestre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mestre</span></a> and <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/Verona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Verona</span></a>. A Class 700 <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/ETR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ETR</span></a> unit is working this service. This train type was originally built as <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/AnsaldoBreda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnsaldoBreda</span></a> <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/V250" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>V250</span></a> for the <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/Amsterdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amsterdam</span></a> 🇳🇱 to <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/Brussels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brussels</span></a> 🇧🇪 <a href="https://rail.chat/tags/Fyra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fyra</span></a> highspeed programme.</p>
Dunbar's Number<p>So yesterday I was baffled because all the images on my <a href="https://eattherich.club/tags/ETR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ETR</span></a> timeline stopped showing. I tried to blame Moshidon but when I checked in the browser still nothing. So I disabled the NextDNS and they came back, but not in the browser, uBlock was doing its job. Turns out one of the filters added exoio to the blocklist. Anyway, removed that and we're good to go. But heads up for anyone else with the problem.</p>