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With respect to Mark Hemphill's comments about truck hunting, today I saw, for the first time, a real example of truck hunting at speed. It was on a northbound Pacific National container train that we had followed up the western side of the Great Divide to the crest at Cullerin. As the train dropped down grade from the crest, it was drawing away from us as the car speedo indicated 120km/h (about 75mph)(20km/h faster than the road limit and 10km/h faster than the rail speed limit - although the car speedo might be fast). We drew level on the flatter sections, and the leading truck of RRAY 7036 (an articulated single level container wagon with two (end) 40' platforms and three 48' platforms) was oscillating fairly violently, enough for the container to be visibly moving laterally relative to that on the preceding wagon. <br />Twenty years ago I was involved in investigations into truck hunting, but this was the first example I'd seen (and in "the wild" too). <br />Peter <br />----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <br />On the subject of "truck hunting" I have been on Boxcars that were truck hunting and That was no fun. For some strange reason noty having to do with speed the trucks hunted then stopped then started again then stoped...Kinda like being in purgatory for 8 hours and could not get any sleep either. Stack Trains and Grainers that have a low center of gravity almost never hunt but Boxcars for whatever reason have a propesity to hunt..
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