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Re: It's the bearings, stupid, not the brakes
Author: I'ma M'gaga
Date: 02-26-2023 - 20:22
I'ma M'gaga Wrote:
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>> [the] accusation that Mr. Trump’s administration scuttled an Obama-era rule for high-tech braking.
> Not an accusation, but a fact.
> You obviously weren't able to grasp what Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. was expressing. He said that PTC was way overpriced and,
Last time I checked into the situation, PTC isn't a braking system but an overlay to use an existing brake system.
> The money would have been better spent on wheel bearing failure detection devices installed on every car instead of relying on wayside detectors every twenty miles or so.
Unfortunately, and I don't expect you ever to comprehend this, but this is wildly impractical in the real world.
> And which party are you channeling the majority of your anger toward?
The party of Trigger T Tomin and his handle du jour, which happens to be R L Dim Sum-walt at the moment.
>>> The rule wouldn’t have applied to the East Palestine train anyway.
>> Why is that?
> Because the proposed law
Unless it was proposed by Congress and ratified by the President, it wasn't a law.
> Also, you can have the best braking system in the world but the train is still going to pile up if a wheel bearing goes bad.
Just like those 1000 apes on their 1000 typewriters, for once you come up with something which is real.
> NS could have gone a long way in preventing this wreck if they would have just run solid trains comprised exclusively of cars carrying hazardous commodities and reduced the speed of those train to, say, 25 MPH. I believe S.P. and other railroads used to run trains like that and called them KEY trains.
SP specified 30 mph, and it was only in specific urban areas.
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>> [the] accusation that Mr. Trump’s administration scuttled an Obama-era rule for high-tech braking.
> Not an accusation, but a fact.
> You obviously weren't able to grasp what Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. was expressing. He said that PTC was way overpriced and,
Last time I checked into the situation, PTC isn't a braking system but an overlay to use an existing brake system.
> The money would have been better spent on wheel bearing failure detection devices installed on every car instead of relying on wayside detectors every twenty miles or so.
Unfortunately, and I don't expect you ever to comprehend this, but this is wildly impractical in the real world.
> And which party are you channeling the majority of your anger toward?
The party of Trigger T Tomin and his handle du jour, which happens to be R L Dim Sum-walt at the moment.
>>> The rule wouldn’t have applied to the East Palestine train anyway.
>> Why is that?
> Because the proposed law
Unless it was proposed by Congress and ratified by the President, it wasn't a law.
> Also, you can have the best braking system in the world but the train is still going to pile up if a wheel bearing goes bad.
Just like those 1000 apes on their 1000 typewriters, for once you come up with something which is real.
> NS could have gone a long way in preventing this wreck if they would have just run solid trains comprised exclusively of cars carrying hazardous commodities and reduced the speed of those train to, say, 25 MPH. I believe S.P. and other railroads used to run trains like that and called them KEY trains.
SP specified 30 mph, and it was only in specific urban areas.
