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Since We are on the subject....TIME TO SHOW HOW ROBUST THE OLD SMEES ARE. |
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Posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Tue Jul 1 11:24:22 2008, in response to Re: Slant R38..., posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Mon Jun 30 17:24:17 2008. For one, the photo in the previous post displays how robust those SMEEs are. Look at the frame, not a piece of damage, the only damage is a bent front portion of the body, which is easily fixable.I got all these photos fro Nycsubway.org  Now look at that St. Louis R38, you see the frame structures beneath the bolsters, and you can see how well the car held up, and that only the front is damaged....barely up to the first door.  Now look at that R32 BUDD Brightliner above, look at how well even the ROOF held up, and again, this car was rebuilt and put back into service...need i say more.. talk about robust, these railcars are truly well built. I bet that train was doing 20+MPH too.  Now look at this R42, it held up extremely well, very robust, and it was hit at 18+MPH, so there is proof of how robust they are.  There is the R40 that hit the R42. It was even rebuilt into a slant, and if you examine the photo, you will see that the damage didn't even reach the first door leaf...because of the SMEE's very robust coonstruction using frames.  This arten derailed around columbus circle, and columbus circle is a fast station...so this train must have been doing 30 or 40 miles when it hit the pillars, and it held up well for that.  If robert ray were piloting an R12 during the union square catastrophe, maybe the only damage would be like the damage on the car above... the frames would keep the car together well. |
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