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Train vs Vehicle Accident Logic, make it make sense
Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:32 pm
Trains supposedly take a long time to stop normally, but shortly after getting in an accident with a much lighter vehicle they can stop in less than 100 yards. Make it make sense!! If it takes several hundred yards to stop it takes several hundred yards to stop no matter what it comes hits due to the difference in speed and weight at which it is compared to the object it struck.
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Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:33 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
Well if car is on track they probably trying to stop on riding brakes pre crash no
Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:33 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
One should never be in an accident with a train.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:34 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
If you don’t understand that trains begin braking long before they hit morons sitting on the tracks then I’m not sure I can make it make sense for you
This post was edited on 8/25/24 at 1:35 pm
Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:34 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
A fully loaded train ain’t stopping in 100 yards unless it was doing under 20mph
Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:36 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
Are you really asking why train emergency stops are shorter than normal stops?
Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:38 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
Someone was never forced to view the Florida East Coast Railroad's 1982 production Paths of Thunder in 7th grade and it shows.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:40 pm to marcus3000
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Someone was never forced to view the Florida East Coast Railroad's 1982 production Paths of Thunder in 7th grade and it shows.
Is it a good movie.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:40 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
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Trains supposedly take a long time to stop normally,
That used to be true in the steam engine days. Around the 50s they developed a much better breaking system but allow and even magnify the rumors that it takes a long time as a way to keep insurance rates low.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:46 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
Must be magic.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:47 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
You have no clue what you're talking about. How much distance it takes a train to stop is a function of its speed, length, and weight (e.g. loads versus empties). Unless the train is going pretty slowly, it isn't going to stop in under 100 yards. Hitting a car makes very little difference. Hitting that Yukon XL you financed for 96 months makes very little difference. The reality is that the large majority of collisions between road vehicles and trains are the result of the driver of the road vehicle utterly failing to pay attention and/or doing something quite stupid, and there's rarely any realistic opportunity for the train crew to avoid the collision.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:47 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
You can't be this retarded
Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:48 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
This is not the direction I thought you would go with the thread after reading your title.
My wonder is how train vs vehicle accidents happen at all? We know exactly where the train is going to be. We mark most crossings with bright lights, bells, and arms. We put loud arse horns on the trains. Rarely, if ever, can anyone say that a train just snuck up on someone out of nowhere. Never can they say that a train just took a hard left all of the sudden and wiped out a vehicle. They don't change course! They're always in the same areas, right where we fricking expect them!
My wonder is how train vs vehicle accidents happen at all? We know exactly where the train is going to be. We mark most crossings with bright lights, bells, and arms. We put loud arse horns on the trains. Rarely, if ever, can anyone say that a train just snuck up on someone out of nowhere. Never can they say that a train just took a hard left all of the sudden and wiped out a vehicle. They don't change course! They're always in the same areas, right where we fricking expect them!
This post was edited on 8/25/24 at 1:50 pm
Posted on 8/25/24 at 1:51 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
I think you should personally test out your theory.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 2:33 pm to OysterPoBoy
A load fright train traveling 55 mph takes 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 miles to stop. That's todays numbers.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 2:46 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
Sitting at a crossing this week, I started counting rail cars after about 20 cars had already passed. There were two engines on front, the 20 or so cars I did not count, plus 129 more cars. There was another engine in there at about car 100. That MF ain't stopping in 100 yards.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 2:47 pm to OLDBEACHCOMBER
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A load fright train traveling 55 mph takes 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 miles to stop.
Not really. When you dump the air, they tend to stop pretty quickly especially a heavy freight train. The cars squat down alot quicker due to the weight.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 2:54 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
Posted on 8/25/24 at 2:56 pm to LSUSportsFan2000
If nothing else unless the other vehicle is knocked loose from the locomotive then there is a helluva lot of drag added not even figuring in derailment of the front wheels.
Posted on 8/25/24 at 3:02 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:train tracks are where we keep the trains
They're always in the same areas, right where we fricking expect them!
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