What's Going On?
YouTube is full of misleading headlines and pictures. There are several lurid 'tease' thumbnails ...
... some of which turn out to be about Japan's Maglev (Magnetic Levitation) trains.
The videos that accompany these pictures are usually less ludicrous, but not always.
Some are about different floating trains ...
This headline, however, was slightly more intriguing ...
... because it does look real.
The gist of the article was that the above tram (or train) is running on a floating bridge.
As an ex Isle of Wight resident, fbb us familiar with the Cowes Floating Bridge ...
... frequently busted due, apparently, to a very poor bit of work by the Marine Architect; i.e. they who designed the vessel. It's progress across the River Medina is in the form of large cog wheels dragging it across on chains.
Hence such vessels are often called 'chain ferries'.
But a similar vessel at Poole is simply called the Sandbanks Ferry.
Once upon a time there were significant numbers of train ferries, namely ships which carried trains.
One ran from Harwich to Zeebrugge ...
It is slightly spooky to see pictures of a steam loco shunting the wagons on ....
... and off ....
... up a slope at high tide!
fbb would not want to be a goods wagons on such a spindly boat ...
... in the January gales!
To save blog readers' complaints, passenger carriages travelled on a special sailing overnight between Dover and Dunkerque ...
... and on to Paris ...
... operated jointly by British Railways (formerly the Southern Railway) ...
Apart from overnight through coaches, these vessels carried freight wagons during daylight hours.
... and S N C F.
But the train in the "It Floats" screenshot isn't any of these ...
... so, what's going on?
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And what was going on when the sun rose on that Sunday morning?
SPICES
... to the tomb to complete the burial.
Peter and John ran to the tomb in fear and disbelief; even after they heard from the women that the stone had been rolled back.
Mary of Magdala thought she was talking to the gardener and begged him to tell her where Jesus body had been placed after removal from the tomb.
At various stages they were all unwilling even to consider that Jesus had risen, even though he told them all that he would!
If course, it was impossible!
So what changed?
One person who refused to accept the resurrection had his mind changed.
With God, all things are possible because, by definition, He is not limited to the restrictions of earthly science, He is not even limited to the restrictions of our whole universe.
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Next floating blog : Tues 7 April
