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Re: How Railroad Could Have Avoided / Ameliorated Fiery Crash |
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Posted by ElectricTraction on Sun Feb 8 17:45:36 2015, in response to Re: How Railroad Could Have Avoided / Ameliorated Fiery Crash, posted by Joe V on Sun Feb 8 17:40:53 2015. But that's irrelevant, as the heavy rail equipment isn't made to brake as hard as LRVs are. I'm not arguing that they should be, or that such a braking system would even be practical outside of Pueblo. But the simple, indisputable fact of the matter is that kinetic energy and friction go up linearly together as mass goes up.Just because LRVs have more braking power per ton doesn't change what the wheel/rail connection is capable of given powerful enough brakes. If an M-7 had the same wheels, rails, and braking power per ton as an LRV, it would stop like an LRV. |
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