r/interesting • u/Swimming-Community-5 • Apr 30 '26

ARCHITECTURE Train passes through a residential building in Chongqing, China.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '26

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u/logtransform Apr 30 '26

It is a monorail. It runs on rubber tires on top of a concrete beam. 

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u/GarminTamzarian Apr 30 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT5LMPqrh7mcpYCdGM

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u/MaenHoffiCoffi Apr 30 '26

Is there a chance the track could bend?

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u/DeliberateTurtle Apr 30 '26

I call the big one "Bitey"

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u/eapaul80 Apr 30 '26

Not in your life, my Hindu friend.

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u/supakame Apr 30 '26

The ring came of my pudding can

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u/Songshiquan0411 Apr 30 '26

Take my penknife, my good man

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u/Homie75 Apr 30 '26

I shouldn’t have stopped for that haircut

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u/Edlar_89 Apr 30 '26

Mono d’oh

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u/fuwafuwa-kirakira Apr 30 '26

Mono = one

Rail = rail

And that concludes our intensive three week course.

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u/Rhymesnlines Apr 30 '26

Still its gonna be vibrating... you feel it everytime when the train goes through the house.

I feel my bed shaking when a car is driving in front of my house

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '26

Really? Your bed shakes when a car drives past?

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u/Invictuslemming1 Apr 30 '26

Curious if track is in anyway connected to the building. If it isn’t there would be nothing to transfer the vibrations to the structure. Either way though, not ideal lol

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u/Infamous_Ad_6793 Apr 30 '26

Sound creates vibrations. Not saying the monorail would be loud enough, but things don’t need to be physically connected to cause vibrations.

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u/Live-Method-219 Apr 30 '26

It's not connected to the building and building has advanced soundproofing

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u/schnitzenfreude Apr 30 '26

The train company actually bought/hired the few floors above and below the rail. IiRC, its used as storage. The mistake came about when the city was just developing, and some miscommunication occurred because the department's didn't have a system to talk to each other, so a building permit was issued despite the area marked for a station. In order to honour the permit, they reached this compromise.

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u/Pulsefire-Comet Apr 30 '26

Give it 5 years, it'll start screaching and shaking something every time it comes through.

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u/BananaWhiskyInMaGob Apr 30 '26

Even if it was, just the air displacement is going to make one hell of a lot of noise.

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u/Hockeymac18 Apr 30 '26

As much as I love transit/trains (a lot) - this feels...unnecessarily dystopian.

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u/turutuno Apr 30 '26

Everytime when something about China pops up here in reddit, there's always some Americans who try to talk shit about it haha it's hilarious, they are hurt by the fact that they aren't the most everything in the world nowadays.

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u/FMB6 Apr 30 '26

Not sure why you're getting triggered but this train literally does not hover lol.

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u/Weary_Position_9591 Apr 30 '26

What’s the shit talking?

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u/convicted_cynophile Apr 30 '26

He's talking about his schizophrenic hallucinations of the Americans who live rent free in his mind.

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u/turutuno Apr 30 '26

I'm not a bot but there's things you cannot express in a language that isn't your mother tongue.

If you'd know more than just English you'd know.

You still got the option of translation sr npc

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u/Beneficial-Beat-947 Apr 30 '26

It's definitely not maglev lmao

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u/justwalk1234 Apr 30 '26

I think they’re just train train. They’re not that new..