FrankenCub
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In those instances the object is high up, if there was something on a rail it can derail the wheels. Once one set is off the rails it's game over.
A-Qaeda publishes Guide To Train Derailment - Seattle Amtrak kills 6 (and counting)
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Acer-m14
20×102mm Vulcan
Acer-m14
20×102mm Vulcan
From the one photo in the link with twitter pics .. how did the engine stay on the tracks .. someone hiding in the bushes just tossed out a object ??
FrankenCub
.338 Win Mag
I'd hardly call that "blasting down bad track" as the title says. He's creeping for a reason. Try that at commute speed and it's done for. That train would NOT stay on those rail at speed. Never.
Acer-m14
20×102mm Vulcan
5 mph is blasting on them tracks LOL .. i can see some one pulling up rail spikes .. the first few will make it then cabooom
FrankenCub
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From looking at the Twitter images, there are two engines, one front, one rear. the front went off the tracks first. After all the slow down from pushing everything else off the track it was probably going slow enough to stay put.
I see that last engine still being on the tracks as luck.
I see that last engine still being on the tracks as luck.
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FrankenCub
.338 Win Mag
I see something in those pictures that look a bit odd.. hold on a minute while I edit a screengrab...
FrankenCub
.338 Win Mag
Inside the red cicrle there are a couple light colored objects, one looks like it's on the inside of the track on the right. The one on the other rail looks like it's hanging off the other side. If that's something there, that would be enough to make a wheel jump a rail. And curiously enough it's about in the right spot following where the train went off.
Acer-m14
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dame thermite .. its that the pusher how did it stay on the rails ..
or the trip before the train did some burnout on the track .. LOL
or the trip before the train did some burnout on the track .. LOL
FrankenCub
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Never mine, I read them wrong. I was right, it's the pusher.
FrankenCub
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http://www.wweek.com/news/2017/12/18/report-amtrak-cascades-train-may-have-sped-into-curve-just-before-flying-off-tracks/
The Seattle Times reported that state transportation department spokeswoman Barbara LaBoe said that the train should have slowed from 79 miles per hour to 30 mph before heading into the curve. But a witness driving on Interstate 5 on Monday morning said the train passed him while he was driving about 60 mph, within a half-mile of the crash site.
The Seattle Times reported that state transportation department spokeswoman Barbara LaBoe said that the train should have slowed from 79 miles per hour to 30 mph before heading into the curve. But a witness driving on Interstate 5 on Monday morning said the train passed him while he was driving about 60 mph, within a half-mile of the crash site.
Acer-m14
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utho
FrankenCub
.338 Win Mag
???
Acer-m14
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utho .. whoops
Cavalry
.308 Win
Oh gawd - yet ANOTHER Texting Incident ?
After what, the accident in NJ ?, I thought they put Speed Controls on these things.
Is the Engineer some State Rep's Nephew ? Affirmative Action hire ?
Or just your average, everyday, Caucasian Idiot.
Just mentioning this because you have to be a special kind of fool F-UP driving a TRAIN !
Planes: Three Dimensions = Hard.
Cars and Trucks: Two Dimensions = Medium.
Trains: ONE DIMENSION
You can't go up or down, You can't STEER.
There is ONE CONTROL - THE THROTTLE (brake is often integrated into it).
After what, the accident in NJ ?, I thought they put Speed Controls on these things.
Is the Engineer some State Rep's Nephew ? Affirmative Action hire ?
Or just your average, everyday, Caucasian Idiot.
Just mentioning this because you have to be a special kind of fool F-UP driving a TRAIN !
Planes: Three Dimensions = Hard.
Cars and Trucks: Two Dimensions = Medium.
Trains: ONE DIMENSION
You can't go up or down, You can't STEER.
There is ONE CONTROL - THE THROTTLE (brake is often integrated into it).
I think those are visible in close-ups, and they're just Expansion Joints of some sort.
Marine Cpl
.577 Tyrannosaur.
The orange is just paint. We paint our insulated joints red in the railroad I work for.
Marine Cpl
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It's a little more than that. Some trains have 2 or 3 handles. One throttle, one trainline brake, and one engine brake. Then you also have positive train control systems you have to monitor along with the radio and the engine systems.
It isn't just stop and go. And length and weight to a train along with some cars on curves while other cars are on straight track while the front is on a downgrade and the rear is on an upgrade and things can get quite complicated where you cannot slow down in time.
FrankenCub
.338 Win Mag
Yeah the other image is much better. Looks like where rail sections are fastened together.
Granted.
But I still maintain of the three modes of transport, a Train has the least amount of variables for the Driver to control.
(they were Engineers when they had to have a true understanding of the Engine they were operating)
Anyhow, I am now on Pins and Needles waiting for what the HACK who was driving yesterday uses as an excuse.
Hopefully it's not some Muslim - then, like Mohammed Noor - LEO and Murderer - he'll simply go home on FULL PAY and stay there until it all blows over.