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Train crashes into residential area!!!

apparently it was carrying loads of lumber in the city of Commerce, CA. 10 miles SE of LA. on the intersection of Garfield and Ferguson.
 
damn...that's gonna be messy 🙁

Why do trains detrail? Haven't we been using this same rail concepts for like 170 years now?
 
Originally posted by: neovan
apparently it was carrying loads of lumber in the city of Commerce, CA. 10 miles SE of LA. on the intersection of Garfield and Ferguson.
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El Ghetto.

 
Originally posted by: Elemental007
damn...that's gonna be messy 🙁

Why do trains detrail? Haven't we been using this same rail concepts for like 170 years now?
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Unbalanced loads, going to fast throu a corner, warped tracks. A train runs on tracks that are = so if a track goes
~ then one of the train wheels is gonna come of the track, dig into the ground, then physics takes it from there.
 
Originally posted by: Elemental007
damn...that's gonna be messy 🙁

Why do trains detrail? Haven't we been using this same rail concepts for like 170 years now?
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apparently weve been using the same rail for 170 years too
 
Wow, they just gave some stats on Ca. train safety, Union Pacific's "Track" record SUCKS 275 derailments in the first three months of this year, thats 60% of all train incidents for that quarter.
 
Originally posted by: Elemental007
damn...that's gonna be messy 🙁

Why do trains detrail? Haven't we been using this same rail concepts for like 170 years now?
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According to the article, the cars were runaway on the track. Going around a curve too fast could cause a derailment.

My question is how the hell do railway cars go runaway? I mean, don't the brakes have failsafe mechanisms?
 
That residential area was probably trying to beat the train across the track..
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Stupid residential area.

amish
 
Originally posted by: optoman
How fast was that train going? It looks like toothpicks everywhere.
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You'd be surprised what a train can do when it's only going 25 MPH. Momentum is a trains worst enemy.
 
Originally posted by: NogginBoink
Originally posted by: Elemental007
damn...that's gonna be messy 🙁

Why do trains detrail? Haven't we been using this same rail concepts for like 170 years now?
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According to the article, the cars were runaway on the track. Going around a curve too fast could cause a derailment.

My question is how the hell do railway cars go runaway? I mean, don't the brakes have failsafe mechanisms?
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they might, but even then, if the train is going too fast and has too much weight, all the brakes are gonna do is melt away and/or start on fire.
 
and some people want bullet trains that go 150+mph for residental travel?

forget it, i'm sticking to planes or cars. 😉
 
Safe to say there will be lawsuits as a result of this. According to the article, workers monitored the out-of-control cars for 30 miles before the decision was made to force the derailment. Why wait so long? Was that 30 mile path through a more populated or valuable area such that a forced derailment would have been more disasterous?

 
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