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[quote user="schlimm"]Given that this accident occurred on a rail line that none of the professionals here work for and that it was in Canada, not the US, it is not surprising that they have no clear answers.  I am surprised their railroads apparently do not have a chart like the one the CN has, as referenced in the article.  At least no one has mentioned one.[/quote] There are charts and guidelines such as the one where CN suggests 40% of the handbrakes be applied.  However, as I understand it, most railroads stipulate an overarching rule that requires enough handbrakes be set to prevent the train from rolling.  That is the hard rule that counts.  I assume that MM&A has that rule because the guidelines alone are not enough to guarantee that a train won’t roll.  If the MM&A has a rule stating that enough brakes must be set to prevent the train from rolling, the engineer of the runaway oil train is not off the hook just because he set the 11 handbrakes called for in the guidelines.  Regarding people on the forum knowing how many brakes he should have set, the fact that they don’t work in Canada is irrelevant.  The tank cars, track, and grades behave the same way in both the U.S. and Canada.
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