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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by adrianspeeder Please don't take this the wrong way, but are you using drugs? Every other train detail in that movie was wrong! [/quote] OK, I agree, but it was 'hollywood' we are talking about,...where fantasy is their funny uncles middle name. I've seen worse stretching of the truth. But in addition to the issues you brought up, I have a few questions too, lets take a closer look, shall we? [quote]QUOTE: No brakes when the air hoses are apart....[/quote] BINGO, this bothered me too. I missed the first 45- 60 minutes of the movie, and just assumed that the guy blew off all his air with improper applications before I tuned in. I guess you are saying THAT wasn't the case? Then obviously the writer had no clue about how Air brakes work. [quote]QUOTE: No dynamic braking is attempted....[/quote] That occured to me as well, but not all loco's have Dynamics, do they? Are we sure these loco's had DB? [quote]QUOTE: The brakes "burned out" when they finally did catch[/quote] I especially thought this was fishy as well. The movie presents the train as having finally gotten the brakes working, slowed the train down, just in time to have the chase engine slam into the back of them, with the inertia of the impact causing the functioning brakes to catastrophically fail. Anybody know if this can even happen? The impression the story gave me was that the inertia transfered from the chase train to the train with brakes applied, caused the applied brakes to "snap", which with a brake system for every axel on the train to fail simultaneously, seemed beyond far fetched [quote]QUOTE: Random piles of sand didn't derail the thing....[/quote] Yes, but they weren't real BIG piles of sand What I kept wondering about was all the manual brake "wheels" I kept seeing on the caboose and on the cars when Rob Lowe took his little excursions. It seemed to me that with as many guys as they had on the train, they coulds been cranking on some hand wheels, and stopping the train. Why wouldn't they have been going after the manual hand brakes?
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