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Re: What is Known So Far-Thanks
Author: BOB2
Date: 09-18-2013 - 12:55
Thanks, for those assessments and information.
This information is really making the MMA look like a more and more half assed in its operating practices. And, with the possibility of this kind of half assed/cut the corners operator culture, you can see the clear benefits of Canada's national safety policy of "self regulation".
New questions: Was or wasn't there a full or partial application under the train, or only the , independent set? And, in addition to the hand brakes on the engine, were they chained at the wheels, and under how many units?
A fully released train also makes for "looser" hand brakes, in my experience....?
I can attest to easily not being able to hold a fully released train of this size on a grade like that, when a heel of five lousy empty pigs that my useless lazy field man tied, and only the independent application of two SD-7's, gave me a scary high speed "green to the hill" down the old "slide" starting opposite the Glendale depot, and ending when we finally hit the hump "squeezers", as the cut went over the crest.
This information is really making the MMA look like a more and more half assed in its operating practices. And, with the possibility of this kind of half assed/cut the corners operator culture, you can see the clear benefits of Canada's national safety policy of "self regulation".
New questions: Was or wasn't there a full or partial application under the train, or only the , independent set? And, in addition to the hand brakes on the engine, were they chained at the wheels, and under how many units?
A fully released train also makes for "looser" hand brakes, in my experience....?
I can attest to easily not being able to hold a fully released train of this size on a grade like that, when a heel of five lousy empty pigs that my useless lazy field man tied, and only the independent application of two SD-7's, gave me a scary high speed "green to the hill" down the old "slide" starting opposite the Glendale depot, and ending when we finally hit the hump "squeezers", as the cut went over the crest.
