From: otterpower@xhotmail.com

On 5/19/2014 12:08 AM, Glen Labah wrote:
> In article
> <1150810053422162717.604051dpeltier-my-deja.com@news.aioe.org>,
>    wrote:
>
>> "conklin"  wrote:
>>> Is the geo car ever put on the end of these 100+car oil trains?  If not,
>>> why
>>> not?
>>
>> Because a.) the slack action at the end of a 100-car freight trains is not
>> safe for occupied passenger cars, and b.) they want to test as many miles
>> per shift as they can, so they want to operate on priority trains. As I
>> said, the usual practice is to run them as stand-alone trains.
>
>
> There is also c.) If it is a track geometry car at the end of a 100+ car
> oil train, it will discover any critical safety issues with the track
> after the train has already derailed and exploded.
>
Wouldn't the geometry car also be able to detect incipient problems?

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