You may recall that the Christmas incarnation of Totally Normal Town was demolished during our most recent Christmas Special, and that we've already started planning the new version of our little city-under-the-stairs!
This version of Totally Normal Town will be more challenging than the last one because we're planning to build mostly original builds, rather than rebuilding sets designed by Lego. Well, we've already gotten started on the first few buildings!
As I said in the post linked above, I've narrowed the roads make this a walking-biking-public-transit urban paradise!!! So my first challenge was to build a "Seilbahn".
I think that in English this translates as "cable car" -- but I'd like to use the German word here because it's a special type of cable car that I'd never encountered before moving to Zürich. With this type of cable car, there are two cars (or sets of cars), each on either end of a long cable. They act as counterweights, so when one goes up, the other comes down.
For the two Seilbahns I know of in Zürich, the two sets of cars actually share a single track, which only spits in two briefly in the middle for the cars to pass each other. Unfortunately, I was not able to manage that with Legos no matter how hard I tried, so instead I made parallel tracks, each leading to a different terminal station on the ground.
