From: ahk@chinet.com

conklin  wrote:
>
>"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.

Is this like "bruising the gin" when the martini is made by an
untalented bartender, George?

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