by MEC407
3rdrail wrote: where a train has partially derailed at speed and cars to a locomotive's rear are out of control and are racing towards the rear of such locomotive - would an engineer have the capability to continue to maintain speed to "outrun" the runaway units, or would the train automatically go into emergency stopping beyond the engineers control but setting up the locomotive for a rear end collision ?I think that's exactly what happened in the video -- the train broke apart, went into emergency, and the head end came to a stop... and then was rear-ended by some of the cars. Looks like it happened on a bridge too, and I think that tank car ended up going off the bridge. I didn't notice that until after I had replayed it a few times.
Last edited by MEC407 on Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Pan Am Railways — Boston & Maine/Maine Central — Delaware & Hudson
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Providence & Worcester — New England — GE Locomotives