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Down At The Y

Kind of like a Magic Tee for RF!

 

When you get to the Grand Canyon you get an opportunity to traverse the Y, something that made no sense to me until I took a good look at it on Google Maps.

 

Since there's no turntable at the Grand Canyon and only one way in they've got to have a method to get you turned around and that's the Y. If you look at the Y on Google Maps:

 

36.05477145405851, -112.14325235407148

 

and follow the tracks out you can see how they accomplish the turnaround. Pretty interesting feat of engineering and much easier to understand than an RF Magic Tee:

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_tee

 

Unless you're an RF Engineer I would recommend not checking out the link above, you'll probably wind up more confused than when you started...you've been warned!

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Uploaded on September 22, 2023
Taken on September 15, 2023