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Re: How Railroad Could Have Avoided / Ameliorated Fiery Crash |
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Posted by Joe V on Sun Feb 8 18:48:56 2015, in response to Re: How Railroad Could Have Avoided / Ameliorated Fiery Crash, posted by j trainloco on Sun Feb 8 17:39:22 2015. You are forgetting something you should remember from classroom driver's ed: the occupant suffers from TWO crashes in a single car crash: the initial jolt (followed by rapid deceleration) AND the final stop, which sends you flying forward. When you see bulges in the windshield of cars at the junk yard, that was someone's skull, and that person is probably dead.Train passengers can be sit frontward, backward, or sideways and they don't wear seatbelts. Siemens can boast of its car's abilities, but a San Diego Trolley as yet to decelerate from 60mph at 6mphps with train load of people. Be careful what you wish for if you want trains to decelerate at 6mphps. Passengers will get whiplash in one crash and a banged head in the other depending on which way they are facing. Yes it matters whether they were going 10 or 60 mph, because the speed affects the impact in the 2nd crash. |
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