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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by artmark</i> <br /><br />In rail speak the pronounciation is "DEE rail." To qoute our superintendent, upon his arrival at the scene of a car having been run through a derail,"Yep. They work every time." <br />Mitch <br />[/quote][:0]Contrary to what your superintendant says, derails do not work every time. Vandals let loose the hand brakes on a covered hopper loaded with crushed emery on a short line not too far from my house. The car traveled about 100 yards picking up speed before it hit the derail. It just rode right up & over and continued straight through the center of town, over 3 grade crossings, into an industrial siding, over/through a trackmobile and into the river. Lucky nobody was killed. After that, they always left the cars in the yard parked closer to the derail so they wouldn't have the chance to pick up that much speed if vandals struck again.
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