From: gl4317@yahoo.com

In article ,
 Sancho Panza  wrote:

> Wouldn't the geometry car also be able to detect incipient problems?


It might.  However, for detecting those it would be best to inspect the
track before the oil train passes over it.  Some of these lines have a
lot of oil traffic over them, but if the line is in such poor condition
as George describes, it seems to me it is likely a secondary line of
some sort.  The secondary line near here that receives the most oil
traffic only gets two of those 100 car trains per week or so.  I would
think this line might be something like that.

If a car with the ability to do certain base track inspections were put
to use there, I would rather see it on the daily lumber mill train.
That's more likely to find incipient defects than the twice per week oil
train.

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