From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net

"Nick Fotis"  wrote in message
news:lldvvg$kpo$1@news.ntua.gr...
> On 19/05/2014 19:28, Larry Sheldon wrote:
>> On 5/18/2014 10:48 PM, dpeltier@my-deja.com wrote:
>
>>> Because a.) the slack action at the end of a 100-car freight trains is
>>> not
>>> safe for occupied passenger cars, and ...[snip]
>>
>> How did the conductor and brakeman (-men) survive in the way cars?
>>
>
> with much slower acceleration and braking, I guess.
> If each coupler has a slack of one inch, in 100 cars the accumulated slack
> (and acceleration/deceleration) can be rather severe, if you are not very
> careful.
>
> N.F.

If the lack in a freight train is so severe that it would harm a human in
the last car, then think of the shock done to the oil.  No wonder they
derail.

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