funny you should ask? not just speed to be considered but the overall
weight and the inertia it carried! trains are a very difficult thing to
controll when a locomotive or locomotives are connected let alone as a run
away bunch of cars! not to mention any grade being thrown into the
equation?
chuck.
can you say dynamic braking? oh yeah! i forgot i'm not supposed ta know
anything about this stuff......i'm a car guy! ;)
-----Original Message-----
From Robert E. Shlafer <PilotRob at webtv.net>
To: Mike MacLean <macleans@earthlink.net>
Cc: spridget list <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2003 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: no LBC trains...
>Interesting, Mike....
>
>"Material" damage notwithstanding, all
>were really pretty lucky on this, eh?
>
>News reports indicate the "runaways"
>were switched over to a spur line for
>something as close to "damage control"
>as could be expected under the circumstances in terms of a "controlled
>termination" of events.
>
>How fast were those cars going when
>they met their end, Mike?
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