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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Literacy in News Reporting - NOT!
From: Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:53:39 -0500
On 7/8/13 20:56 : , Chris Trask wrote:
>> I mentioned this accident to my wife, and she said she heard a TV news
>> report that said the train was changing crews, and it may have been on a
>> slope.  So, we may be talking about "parking breaks".  It did a lot of
>> damage.
>>
>       The accident strikes me as being a bit odd.  The Westinghouse Safety 
> Brake applies the brake shoes in the absence of compressed air, the opposite 
> of the earlier K-Brake system.  This was the invention that made George 
> Westinghouse fabulously rich, before he teamed up with Tesla and began 
> generating electricity.  The brakes should have been fully applied as soon as 
> the air coupling from the locomotives was broken.  It's basically a dead-man 
> system.
>
>       This accident actually sounds more like deliberate sabotage.
>
>
I agree.  You have to sit there and let the compressors on the 
locomotives pump up the air pressure in the lines before you can release 
the brakes - any loss of air clamps the brake shoes down. Something is 
not right with this story.

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Paul Braun
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Valparaiso, IN


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