From: ahk@chinet.com

Sancho Panza   wrote:
>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?

How could it possibly do that for the benefit of the train consist it's
part of?

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