>the Bourke Rd tram-train crossing has been eliminated with

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>the horror...

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the most insane part about that crossing was that it was considered so dangerous and the voltage shifting so delicate that a permanently manned switching house was required (on the left) and they even installed barriers for trams

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>>913819
imagine that was your job all day
activating boom gates and bells and lights, switching voltages, making sure everythings passed through, again and again and again

>>913820
in the good old times before computers and even before telephone there were dozens of such useless boring jobs on the railway

>>913820
>imagine that was your job all day
Imagine that your day was spent saving lives, instead of viewing boring image boards.

>>913820
better than this job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNzTEveUURA

>>913820
That's actually one of those kinds of jobs which autists of varying degrees excel at without slacking off. Same as air traffic controllers.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/end-of-the-line-for-93yearold-railway-signal-box-with-the-power-to-change-lives-20151215-glnsbt.html

>>914025
they wouldn't be able to cope with the speed required or stress

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The tram-train crossing in Markkleeberg near Leipzig was eliminated last November, after a new commuter rail tunnel supposedly sucked away riders from the tram.

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photos stolen from http://www.drehscheibe-online.de/foren/read.php?5,7669107

>>913885
Imagine your job was saving lives, instead of being a self-righteous autist about people commenting on a really boring job on boring image boards.

>>914025
Now I remember a guy who just absolutely loved operating a dipping type galvanizing machine. From my summer job in 2010 or so.

He'd add zinc balls and nitric acib by eye and decide the order or of products to run to get maximum throughput and layout of products to get good coating. He'd do that all day everyday happily.

The only proble was that there were 3 others of us under his charge and he still was unbelievably bad at communicating what he wanted to run, often he'd just pick some product and start hanging it up and we'd follow monkey see monkey do or it would be a low voice telegram of grunting, like "Initech boondogletron doodads, three gaps from rack 21 on".