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Re: my father is a GG1 fan ( prr 30s to 55' ) |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Fri Mar 7 23:57:36 2008, in response to Re: my father is a GG1 fan ( prr 30s to 55' ), posted by WillD on Fri Mar 7 23:49:12 2008. There's a damn good reason the TGV has a nearly perfect safety record after all these years despite an operation which is completely unsafe by US standards.At the kind of HUGE momenta with trains at even 45 mph that one is talking about, accident prevention, or at least ensuring accidents happen only at restricted speed where energy management can work is vital. The train that crashes at 90 mph is in tons of trouble. At higher energy transfer levels, other than sacrificing cars themselves as crumple zones - maybe, on one reading of it, that's why there was much less loss of life in the Chase collision than might be expected - one's hard-pressed to suggest something workable. |
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