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<p>[quote user="tree68"]</p> <p>[quote user="Bucyrus"]I think it is too risky to rely on one man performing a complex hand brake procedure when a failure to get it right can destroy much of a town.  It is too risky to leave an oil train there even if the engineer could be relied on to set sufficient hand brakes every time.[/quote]</p> <p><span style="color:#003300;font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;">It would seem to me that the simplest answer would be not parking the train in such a vulnerable location.  </span></p> <p><span style="color:#003300;font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;">I have no idea of what the profile of that line looks like, but it's hard to believe the whole thing is one continuous grade.  </span></p> <p><span style="color:#003300;font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;">It would be a whole lot easier than re-equipping every railroad car in North America.</span></p> <div style="clear:both;">[/quote]</div> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <div style="clear:both;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">A variety of measures would make the Lac-Megantic operation safer.  As you say, not parking a train at the top of the grade would solve the problem.  A highly secure derail would help a lot if trains are parked on the hill.  Relocating the track around the town would be a solution.  Making the curve through town capable of about 80 mph would help.</span></div> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <div style="clear:both;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">But I am not suggesting a mass conversion of all rolling stock by adding some type of new equipment.  I just think they will need a new type of crude oil unit train to meet the rapidly rising demand coupled with the rapidly rising public opposition and calls for more safety.  </span></div> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <div style="clear:both;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">As I recall, Paul North had posted a link in the other thread about an advanced train concept, and that has been around for a while with no particular urgent need.  But now, the urgent need as arrived with a bang.  </span></div> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <div style="clear:both;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">And all the ideas that would go into such a train are really nothing that radical or revolutionary.  Half of the objective would be to just appease the safety controversy.  Just a new oil train image makeover would help.  So a trainload of safety features is rolling our way. </span></div> <div style="clear:both;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;"></span> </div> <div style="clear:both;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;"></span></div>
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