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02-23-2013, 05:17 PM
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Re: In Response to "Suicide Death by Train" W/ Video
Shit video fuck all happened.
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02-23-2013, 05:35 PM
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Re: In Response to "Suicide Death by Train" W/ Video
Thank you for putting this up. I've known plenty of people who work on the railroads and/or are conductors. We have a railroad near our house maybe two miles away that every now and then we get the news of a supposed suicide on the track. My biggest fear for train conductors is parked cars on the railroad. |
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02-23-2013, 06:46 PM
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Re: In Response to "Suicide Death by Train" W/ Video
Always an informative thing to hear the operators POV. Never been in a train when it has hit someone but I am always aware that it doesn't take much to throw a train off the tracks at high speed. Could a scoop actually lower the rates of death? Like a cattle scoop. |
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02-23-2013, 10:30 PM
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Re: In Response to "Suicide Death by Train" W/ Video
A scoop?? =) No, they've actually tried things like airbags and stuff like that, but the reality is getting hit at 90mph by a giant twinkie or 3/4" plate steel is all the same... it sends the object horizontally from 0mph to 90mph in a fraction of a second. The internal injuries alone kill the person. Remember, any collision involves three actual colliding pieces... the train into the person. the brain collides with the skull, then the body collides with whatever is lands on... in one of my cases, the front plow (it's called a "pilot") knocked a guy forward, and I hit him again. The second time he went under. BTW, in the UK, they actually call these "one-unders". Someone asked where the video took place... answer, north of Portland, OR. I'm back working between LA and San Diego/LA and San Luis Obispo now. Sometimes I work from LA to Needles, CA. Also, someone else said it doesn't take much to derail a train at high speed. Again, I disagree. The physics are beautiful, and it takes a significant deflection to get a train's weight (and therefore the wheel's flange) up and over the rail. I've gone into curves too fast before, ie, a 40mph curve at 75mph, and you can feel the wheels trying to 'climb' out and over the rail, but it still held... and this was in a cabcar (a passenger car with locomotive controls/ the loco is at the rear of the train pushing). -J1 |
