#Frankfurt, #Germany

[alicesutaren@shelter.moe]

@unefamilleavelo @appassionato I thought the same!

[dl1eam@nrw.social]

@appassionato five years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/lbr7yl/train_in_nidderau_germany_by_michael_probst/

[reinald@nrw.social]

@appassionato a beautiful szenario for a model train. Saves a lot of time on landscape building.

[subtruth@mamot.fr]

@flxtr @appassionato Deutschland stabil

[appassionato@mastodon.social]

@flxtr

Safety above all.

[flxtr@social.tchncs.de]

@appassionato You never know

[squarefaelltein@mastodon.social]

@appassionato some date!?

[levin@hachyderm.io]

@appassionato interesting detail here is that this is all intentional: the area is a floodplain that gets flooded naturally in periods of heavy rain or melting snow. When the rail line was constructed, the rails were built on top of a dam. Apparently that was in 1880!

Source (in German): https://www.bz-berlin.de/deutschland/hochwasser-bahn-faehrt-nidderau

(Maybe you already know all this, but I was curious so I did a quick search for an explanation.)

[theoneswit@det.social]

@appassionato

looks like from chihiro

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@appassionato studio Ghibli image irl right here
I love how it looks, but it must be hard for people living there. (And yes I know that this general area has *historically* seen lots of flooding in the past, but I don’t think this has been normal in the last few decades, and of course, people can correct me if I’m wrong, it certainly has been getting worse since climate change)

[appassionato@mastodon.social]

Here's AI take on it:

(I asked it to interpret it as a metaphor).

What do you make of it?

It titled it "The Iron Ridge: Infrastructure on the Brink."

#AI
#infrastructure
#railway
#bridge
#floods

[appassionato@mastodon.social]

2/
• Fragility and Persistence: The image captures a moment of extreme tension between human engineering and natural forces. It echoes the "frozen clocks" by showing a system at its absolute limit, where the "normal" functions of a crossing—waiting for a train, driving across—have been rendered impossible or surreal by the disaster.

[appassionato@mastodon.social]

3/
Ultimately, the Frankfurt crossing is a metaphor for a world where the structures we rely on are becoming increasingly isolated, forced to operate on "islands" of safety as the environmental landscape shifts around them,

[jamain@witter.cz]

It's like that scene from Miyazaki's "Spirited away". Wonderful.

[nlupo@amikejo.xyz]

@appassionato That looks surreal.

[appassionato@mastodon.social]

@nlupo

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