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Re: Stored Well Cars Run Away on old Great Falls Line
Author: ex-BN
Date: 08-17-2017 - 13:34

Another contributing factor is storing cars on tracks with significant grades. Obviously a rail car will roll on the slightest grade but when you factor in a heavier grade it takes more hand brakes to hold a cut. Well cars have notoriously difficult hand brakes. About a mile of chain and not a lot of holding power. Perhaps this grade (a helper grade as recently as the 80's) wasn't the best place for well cars.

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  Stored Well Cars Run Away on old Great Falls Line Pdxrailtransit 08-17-2017 - 12:25
  Re: Stored Well Cars Run Away on old Great Falls Line McClure 08-17-2017 - 13:13
  Re: Stored Well Cars Run Away on old Great Falls Line BOB2 08-17-2017 - 13:21
  Re: Stored Well Cars Run Away on old Great Falls Line ex-BN 08-17-2017 - 13:34
  Re: Stored Well Cars Run Away on old Great Falls Line Pdxrailtransit 08-17-2017 - 14:26
  Re: Stored Well Cars Run Away on old Great Falls Line Jim G. 08-17-2017 - 17:01
  Re: Stored Well Cars Run Away on old Great Falls Line Nudge 08-17-2017 - 17:28
  Re: Stored Well Cars Run Away on old Great Falls Line Retired 08-18-2017 - 06:17


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