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Post #377,968 by CRConrad 7/12/13 2:38:20 PM Reply	How utterly idiotic. Did Westinghouse actually come up with that second apply-the-brakes air tank? What the fuck was wrong; hadn't steel springs been invented in his day?!? -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #377,970 by folkert 7/12/13 3:03:35 PM Reply	Re: How utterly idiotic. You forget they have a need to switch the cars in yards and have them travel "X" Distance... to couple with the next cars in the line. Therefore they brake have to be released after a certain air pressure so they free-wheel. Locomotive brakes are the same way. The use "chain loops" around a wheel and the track to "block" them in. Much the same way you use a wedge to hold a door open. Its a hold over from the 1800s and they had to allow it to happen with the automatic brakes, otherwise the Union wouldn't have ever alowed the brake systems to get onto the railroad cars... taking away jobs. And now you know why. -- greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C
Post #377,972 by drook 7/12/13 3:25:27 PM Reply	So they took away the jobs anyway, without fixing the brakes -- Drew
Post #377,974 by folkert 7/12/13 3:43:11 PM Reply	Sure did. a hundred years later. And yes it is NOW policy and tradition to have those brakes on the trains like that now. This little crash and burn ain't gonna change that... nope. -- greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C
Post #377,976 by CRConrad 7/12/13 4:38:02 PM Reply	Guy who shoves... Air tank on his back to open steel springs
Post #378,012 by folkert 7/13/13 9:02:37 AM Reply	Nonono... That would be a "per task bonus"... Sort of like a switch crew getting $40 per switch to clean them out in the winter. Plus they HAVE to stop the locomotives and everything while they clean them. So, nooooooooo way would the Railroads allow that to happen. -- greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C
Post #378,017 by CRConrad 7/13/13 3:15:23 PM Reply	Yeah well, if they WANT shit like this to happen, then OK...
Post #378,018 by folkert 7/13/13 3:30:11 PM Reply	Evidently... they think it's acceptable and very costly... to retro fit all the Railcars and locomotives. -- greg@gregfolkert.net PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05 Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0 2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C

73 rail tank cars with crude oil run loose, derail, explode. - (Another Scott) - (20) - July 6, 2013, 04:44:44 PM EDT

beautiful place, sad -NT - (boxley) - July 6, 2013, 04:57:24 PM EDT

5 confirmed dead, over 40 missing - (lincoln) - July 8, 2013, 08:21:22 AM EDT

The general feeling here is - (jake123) - (17) - July 8, 2013, 05:41:20 PM EDT

I had heard some people may have been "vaporized". - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - July 8, 2013, 06:28:52 PM EDT

Hard to separate ashes of people from the ashes - (jake123) - (1) - July 8, 2013, 08:02:22 PM EDT

Agreed. - (a6l6e6x) - July 8, 2013, 10:38:15 PM EDT

It seems firefighters may have shut the engines down. - (static) - (13) - July 8, 2013, 11:14:37 PM EDT

But don't train airbrakes work "backwards", like on lorries? - (CRConrad) - (12) - July 12, 2013, 12:15:27 PM EDT

Agreed - (drook) - (9) - July 12, 2013, 01:03:05 PM EDT

Then... how come... - (folkert) - (8) - July 12, 2013, 02:20:46 PM EDT

How utterly idiotic. - (CRConrad) - (7) - July 12, 2013, 02:38:20 PM EDT

Re: How utterly idiotic. - (folkert) - (6) - July 12, 2013, 03:03:35 PM EDT

So they took away the jobs anyway, without fixing the brakes -NT - (drook) - (1) - July 12, 2013, 03:25:27 PM EDT

Sure did. - (folkert) - July 12, 2013, 03:43:11 PM EDT

Guy who shoves... Air tank on his back to open steel springs -NT - (CRConrad) - (3) - July 12, 2013, 04:38:02 PM EDT

Nonono... - (folkert) - (2) - July 13, 2013, 09:02:37 AM EDT

Yeah well, if they WANT shit like this to happen, then OK... -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - July 13, 2013, 03:15:23 PM EDT

Evidently... they think it's acceptable and very costly... - (folkert) - July 13, 2013, 03:30:11 PM EDT

I simply posted the link. - (static) - (1) - July 14, 2013, 11:21:58 PM EDT

Apparently that's by design - (jake123) - July 15, 2013, 04:13:34 PM EDT

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