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Re: How Railroad Could Have Avoided / Ameliorated Fiery Crash |
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Posted by ElectricTraction on Sat Feb 7 15:24:42 2015, in response to Re: How Railroad Could Have Avoided / Ameliorated Fiery Crash, posted by Bill West on Fri Feb 6 17:33:19 2015. That's completely wrong. While it's not impossible that LIRR third rail could get snagged, the geometry of it would make it far harder for it to get snagged in the first place, much less go up and into the train. Also, the MN third rail is far higher off the ground in the first place.All of this talk of barriers and sensors and this and that is trying to put a kludgy band-aid on the problem. There are only a handful of crossings between NWP and Southeast, the NYC never intended their weird third rail system to cross a road at grade, that was an invention of MN in 1984, so they should just get rid of the grade crossings. |
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