I was wrong. Here are more detailed reports:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/07/quebec-police-expect-more-deaths-after-oil-train-derailment-kills-at-least-1/
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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>I assumed that the locomotives were still coupled, that only the personnel
> were changing.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
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>>>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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