QUOTE: Originally posted by rrandb Okay ,so what is the amount of derailments that are equipment related and what amount are roadbed? My better truck theory only appllies if it is bad cars??? I rode the last car of an AMTRAK train and at 80 mph on 1st class track it was floating. So I am not buying that freight roads maintain passenger track like they may have. ENJOY [swg]
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QUOTE: Even in the real world of railroading, cars can have one or more pair of wheels derailed and they can be pulled several miles before either rerailing themselves or causing a catastrophic derailmentt.
QUOTE: Originally posted by dimastep Interesting info, PBenham! But I always thought once the car wheels jumped the track, that's it. In a split second it derails and even if engineer knew what can he do besides applying emergency brakes and by then it'll be too late. On model railroads train can go quite a distance with one car off the track but in real life this will simply destroy the truck. Anyway even if engineer knew the second wheel jumped the track what can he possibly do?
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QUOTE: Originally posted by dimastep First of all, Thank God for this fact, whatever the reason! Nevertheless I always wondered, if one goes to RailPictures.net and looks at the derailments section there are lots of freight train derailments throught the times but hardly any passenger ones (unless there was an accident at grade crossing). Which makes me wonder: passenger trains have the same or even higher speeds they go on the same rails, have same metal wheels, pretty much the same truck construction. How come they don't derail as much?
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