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minus-squareletsgo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·4 days agoNo, they’re attached to sleepers, and the whole lot sits on a bed of ballast (stones). You could easily move some stones aside and thread the rope through the gap.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 days agoEven if that’s so, people are never shown tied up that way. They’re always just laid onto the tracks.
minus-squareletsgo@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoYou don’t see all the rope so there could be a loop around the line behind them.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoUsually it’s clear the rope isn’t tied to anything beneath them.
No, they’re attached to sleepers, and the whole lot sits on a bed of ballast (stones). You could easily move some stones aside and thread the rope through the gap.
Even if that’s so, people are never shown tied up that way. They’re always just laid onto the tracks.
You don’t see all the rope so there could be a loop around the line behind them.
Usually it’s clear the rope isn’t tied to anything beneath them.