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Re: NTSB: Train going too fast at curve before wreck Re: Breaking News MNRR Derailment |
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Posted by Joe V on Tue Dec 3 15:19:05 2013, in response to Re: NTSB: Train going too fast at curve before wreck Re: Breaking News MNRR Derailment, posted by Wado MP73 on Tue Dec 3 15:07:32 2013. On the LIRR , you do not have track speed limit of 70 right upto a 30 MPH curve. They graduate downwards. At Divide, I don't know whether the Port Jeff or Main Line is "diverging", but no train can run through Hicksville station at 80 MPH, engineer being zone-out, asleep, dead, or otherwise.A way around this one is to make the most permissive signal be "Approach", like Amtrak has prior to the Elizabeth curve, as they had a near catastrophe about 10 - 15 years ago. Like it or not, a permanent fix will be required, and they will stretch southbound schedules 2 minutes. |
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