I assumed that the locomotives were still coupled, that only the personnel
were changing.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chris Trask" <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Olympus Camera
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Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Literacy in News Reporting - NOT!
> >
>>I mentioned this accident to my wife, and she said she heard a TV news
>>report that said the train was changing crews, and it may have been on a
>>slope. So, we may be talking about "parking breaks". It did a lot of
>>damage.
>>
>
> The accident strikes me as being a bit odd. The Westinghouse Safety
> Brake applies the brake shoes in the absence of compressed air, the
> opposite of the earlier K-Brake system. This was the invention that made
> George Westinghouse fabulously rich, before he teamed up with Tesla and
> began generating electricity. The brakes should have been fully applied
> as soon as the air coupling from the locomotives was broken. It's
> basically a dead-man system.
>
> This accident actually sounds more like deliberate sabotage.
>
>
> Chris
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