Hello, Ft. Worth...
- Thread starter Keith Lane
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astanley
En-Route
... how in the hell did that happen?
tonycondon
Gastons CRO (Chief Dinner Reservation Officer)
penny on the track
fgcason
En-Route
If my old N-gauge trains from when I was little is any indication: Heavy cars on the back end and lighter ones in the middle. Brakes way back in the line coming on or derail toward the end will do it too. Dumps them off the track every time. As soon as the first one goes, it's a chain reaction.
wsuffa
Touchdown! Greaser!
Lookslike dominoes....
Keith Lane
Pattern Altitude
Not too far off the mark. This phenomenon is called "stringlining a curve". The train decides to take the straightest route, so to speak.
Brakes do release from the head end first, unless there is a remote locomotive on the rear. If there is, and it is being run as a synchronous unit the brakes release from both ends towards the middle. If it is asynchronous, then it might have still had brakes on, or might have been in a lower throttle setting. (See operator error)
Most likely a train handling boo-boo, or the low (inside) rail rolled over due to poor restraint. All the cars in this train would have been what you see in the picture, trailers. As trains go, not too heavy. It is a pretty heavy curve, and looking at it I'd say an ascending grade. I don't know the real story behind it. We here at work all agree on these as being the most likely scenarios. Most likely, somebody got a day or two unpaid leave for it though.
Let'sgoflying!
Touchdown! Greaser!
What will that cost?
Jack Spectre
Line Up and Wait
The equivalent of many, many hours of flying.
Steve
En-Route
Maybe that's an action shot, like at Daytona...
fgcason
En-Route
The one that still gets me is the bridge collapse in GA/AL or somewhere like that a few years ago. Two locomotives went down with the bridge into the short stream crossing. Each locomotive weighs about as much as the moon yet the magic train people somehow came out, lifted them up and set them on the track again or carried them off. Just working out the leverage for a lift like that is in the you gotta be kidding me range. I so want to see the hardware they do that kind of thing with.