Recently many passenger trains in the UK were bought to a standstill by a combination of severe snowy weather and poorly designed snow clearing attachments on the locos. Now it has been reported that trains in Southern England have been waylaid by dew!!!!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/09/dew-delays-rail-service
Adhesion is adhesion and no adhesion is a problem...it dew happen besides outtright rain, snow, ice, sleet, or wet leaves. And the lighter the equipment, the less adhesion, the more likely it dew happen.
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I hope they get things back to normal in dew course.
(Don't know what it is, but something like this would be a serious problem over here--yet when it happens in England it's fodder for comedians or "the lighter side" of the news.)
Off to fill my glass with good ol' Diet Mountain Dew!
Carl
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Ha!! Finally one I can comment on, instead of have to ask about! It is surprising, but both of the operations I am familiar with dew use their sanders on a regular basis, spring, summer, and fall without a drop of anything but dew in sight. They really dew!
Nance-CCABW/LEI
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