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[quote user="BaltACD"]If you are doing you job properly - you don't just set X hand brakes and walk away.  You set X hand brakes and TEST them with your locomotives, If the train doesn't move, then you apply the hand brakes on the locomotives and secure the operating controls as required - then you walk away.  If the train moves in your test, then you apply more and retest. IT IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE OR BRAIN SURGERY! Apply then verify! Just becuse 'the rule' says X, if you verify by testing and it isn't enough - apply more until your test is successful.  This is railroading Kindergarten![/quote] That sounds like the practical solution, however; the article I linked to the first post mentions this: But in a 2011 report into a runaway train incident near Sept-Îles, the TSB noted that “it is impossible to verify hand-brake effectiveness by pulling or pushing cars on high grades (so) locomotive engineers cannot accurately know that management’s expectations have been met every time cars are secured.” So, according to the TSB, the “practical method” of testing to see if enough handbrakes are applied is “impossible.”
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