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"Stephen Sprunk"  wrote in message
news:lle7rn$10q$1@dont-email.me...
> On 19-May-14 19:11, conklin wrote:
>> "Nick Fotis"  wrote in message
>> news:lldvvg$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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> And that oil is in sealed containers full of liquid; oh no, the oil
> might suffocate and/or drown!
>
> "Safe for oil" and "safe for humans" are very different things.
>
> S
>
> --
> Stephen Sprunk         "God does not play dice."  --Albert Einstein
> CCIE #3723         "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
> K5SSS        dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking

Until the shock causes them  to derail.

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