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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by tatans Antigates: I seem to remember long freights hauled by steam up a hill going a lot slower than than the track opposite coming down, obviously the downward train would be going a lot faster, although not faster than posted limits, after hitting a truck is it not the norm to stop? and this happened 20 miles out of town, heading TO town. Another of life's big mysteries. someone better check out these stories from real steam engineers before they are all gone to that big roundhouse in the sky. [/quote] Trains, on their own, would logically move down hill faster than up, gravity being the constant that it is. And the framework that tree sets aside seems like the logical avenue to proceed, for any definitive answer. Still, your original question stated the train was 'coming into town down hill, very fast' Now you've got the train 20 miles out in the boonies, which while it may surely be headed towards a town, that hardly constitutes "coming into a town"...so here it is this thread is only one week old , and the story has already evolved. Which feeds into my initial conclusion that the story is likely based upon a kernel of truth, but has been romanticized, dramatized, and/or exaggerated in the retelling. A lot can happen to a story that's been told and retold for 300 years. [8)]
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