{"id":69933,"date":"2022-02-25T02:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T07:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=69933"},"modified":"2022-02-24T08:35:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T13:35:50","slug":"this-tiny-railway-across-the-sea-has-an-important-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/02\/25\/this-tiny-railway-across-the-sea-has-an-important-job\/","title":{"rendered":"This tiny railway across the sea has an important job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NL5sRCRa7AE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tom Scott<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 15 Nov 2021<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Lorenbahn<\/em>, the L\u00fcttmoorsiel-Nordstrandischmoor island railway, is famous for the tiny, private trains that take residents to and from the mainland. But that&#8217;s not why it was built: and it&#8217;s got a more useful purpose as well.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone from <em>Landesbetrieb f\u00fcr K\u00fcstenschutz<\/em>, <em>Nationalpark und Meeresschutz Schleswig-Holstein<\/em>, and to the islanders, for all your time and patience!<\/p>\n<p>Camera operator: Richard Bielau<br \/>\nProducer: Maximilian Thesseling of Klein Aber <a href=\"https:\/\/kleinaber.de\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/kleinaber.de\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at <a href=\"https:\/\/tomscott.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tomscott.com<\/a><br \/>\non Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomscott\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomscott<\/a><br \/>\nand on Instagram as tomscottgo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-25-at-08-34-30-This-tiny-railway-across-the-sea-has-an-important-job-Quotulatiousness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-25-at-08-34-30-This-tiny-railway-across-the-sea-has-an-important-job-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-71928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-25-at-08-34-30-This-tiny-railway-across-the-sea-has-an-important-job-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-25-at-08-34-30-This-tiny-railway-across-the-sea-has-an-important-job-Quotulatiousness-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-25-at-08-34-30-This-tiny-railway-across-the-sea-has-an-important-job-Quotulatiousness-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-25-at-08-34-30-This-tiny-railway-across-the-sea-has-an-important-job-Quotulatiousness.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Scott Published 15 Nov 2021 The Lorenbahn, the L\u00fcttmoorsiel-Nordstrandischmoor island railway, is famous for the tiny, private trains that take residents to and from the mainland. But that&#8217;s not why it was built: and it&#8217;s got a more useful purpose as well. Thanks to everyone from Landesbetrieb f\u00fcr K\u00fcstenschutz, Nationalpark und Meeresschutz Schleswig-Holstein, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,1118,7,237],"tags":[590,946,1197,1417],"class_list":["post-69933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-germany","category-history","category-railways","tag-engineering","tag-flooding","tag-interwarperiod","tag-northsea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-ibX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71929,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69933\/revisions\/71929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}