On 7/8/13 20:56 : , Chris Trask wrote:
>> 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.
>
>
I agree. You have to sit there and let the compressors on the
locomotives pump up the air pressure in the lines before you can release
the brakes - any loss of air clamps the brake shoes down. Something is
not right with this story.
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