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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer I recall reading about this accident. It seems a coupler on the Pullman had been welded previously,and the weld snapped,sending the car back down the hill.I don't recall why the air brakes didn't stop the car. [/quote] This is pure speculation, but during WW2, since everything was geared towards the war effort, many railroads may have opted to forgo some non-critical maintainences. Airbrakes were probably low priority on the repair list, and thus this car may not have recieved repairs to the airbrakes since some more critical repairs were ahead of it. Jay
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