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<P mce_keep="true">[quote user="NP Red"] <P>I am surprised that the locomotive would be pulling the first car and it even looks like several stayed coulped for a time. Does the coulper or drawbar twist? They shouldn't. They should break, right? How does it hang on like that?</P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=verdana,geneva>I don’t know where the breaking point is, but they can twist without breaking.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is clearance and “slop” in the coupler engagement as well as the draft gear.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It looks like that car went over 60 degrees or more.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It would be interesting to see exactly how the couplers and draft gear handled that amount of twist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2></FONT></SPAN> </P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><FONT face=verdana,geneva size=2>As the engine pulled out onto that deck girder bridge, the lead car rode up onto the plate girder alongside of the bridge deck.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You can see the far end of the car rise up a few feet when it rides up onto the girder.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This support would have taken a little stress off of the coupler twist.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then the tank car wedged into the bottom of the hopper, breaking the coupling, and rolling the hopper upside-down and into the ditch. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> When that happens, y</SPAN>ou can see the damage to the bottom of the hopper caused by the tank car. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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