Whatzit?

[Roy]

I suspect that is an expansion joint for welded rail.

Dan Weinhold

I didn't know that was a problem.

This article literally points to your whatzit photo, which is on the French high-speed TGV:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breather_switch

[webenda]

Erratum:

I suspect that is an expansion joint for welded rail.

Dan Weinhold

I didn't know that was a problem.

Apparently, we need more expansion joints.
This video has a cab view of rail buckling under an engine at 0:031/0:41 :> https://youtu.be/jJeiYaSFCf0

That was exciting to see and hear those rails buckling like that. Startling. And really serious business, I suspect.

Apparently, we have been duped. The sound of rails buckling was fake. The video with a cab view of rail buckling under an engine was fake. The claim that rail expansion caused the buckling was fake.

Most, if not all, the buckled rails were caused by earthquakes.


No sound was recorded during the buckling, it was added after the fact.

The sudden buckling was faked.

The engine being shaken by rail buckling under it was fake. The rail was already buckled as the train approached.



As can be seen in this freeze frame, the buckled track was already there as the train approached.
Reference:=> https://youtu.be/_LoXgN1QWZM

To make matters worse, the video I referenced (Railway Buckling by Felipe Nasser, Published on Feb 28, 2016) apparently was stolen from someone named Anthony.

Comments:
nora sm
2 years ago
I just read in the comment below that this video pertains to someone named Anthony and I checked it. It is true, he has published it one year ago. While it is good to spread knowledge, you need to do it in a proper way with proper referencing and without copyright infringement 

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What & where?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

And here's a different sort of Whatzit. No picture. Just a few words I am quoting here from a movie I saw again, today, that I had seen umpteen times in the past in a movie-theater:
"They move in herds. They do move in herds!"

"Welcome to....."

I bet you will all get this one, and quickly, too!
daMurph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

And here's a different sort of Whatzit. No picture. Just a few words I am quoting here from a movie I saw again, today, that I had seen umpteen times in the past in a movie-theater:
"They move in herds. They do move in herds!"

"Welcome to....."

I bet you will all get this one, and quickly, too!
daMurph

Jurassic Park

[HONDO74]

Jurassic Park - They move in herds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSS4YtDJOO0

[MurphOnMillerAve]

YES!!!
So much of that film is memorable to a lot of people. WE got to see things in that movie we had never seen previously and could only have imagined maybe a tiny bit in our own minds.

(I now return you to your previously scheduled Whatzit.)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

(I now return you to your previously scheduled Whatzit.)

Yes, not just whatever did I post

[MurphOnMillerAve]

(I now return you to your previously scheduled Whatzit.)

Yes, not just whatever did I post

Huh? Ya lost me.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

(I now return you to your previously scheduled Whatzit.)

Yes, not just whatever did I post

Huh? Ya lost me.

Autocorrect on my new Kindle.....

Previously scheduled: I posted a starter photo of a whatzit....back a few posts.

[webenda]

Yes, not just whatever did I post

Huh? Ya lost me.

Autocorrect on my new Kindle.....

Previously scheduled: I posted a starter photo of a whatzit....back a few posts.

The bumper on a bumper car at the carnival?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yes, not just whatever did I post

Huh? Ya lost me.

Autocorrect on my new Kindle.....

Previously scheduled: I posted a starter photo of a whatzit....back a few posts.

Yes, I was aware, which was why I said, "previously scheduled..." What I didn't understand were the words coming outta ya, "Yes, not just whatever did I post. "
Forget it. Not important. That's for sure.
Be well and safe, always, Rufus.
daMurph

[webenda]

Huh? Ya lost me.

Autocorrect on my new Kindle.....

Previously scheduled: I posted a starter photo of a whatzit....back a few posts.

Yes, I was aware, which was why I said, "previously scheduled..." What I didn't understand were the words coming outta ya, "Yes, not just whatever did I post. "
Forget it. Not important. That's for sure.
Be well and safe, always, Rufus.
daMurph

I take it you don't have a clue what it is Murph?
Take another look:

Maybe it is the bottom part of a desk lamp?

[rogruth]

It's on a track of some kind.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It's on a track of some kind.

For a guy with bad vision, your eyes are pretty sharp!