Latest I figured it was Douglas Adams driving the train. He had a heart
attack. And the train continued on it's way to the restaurant at the end of
the universe.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Sielaff [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:36 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Runaway train
The "Latest" I heard was the engineer had a heart attack. Whats with that.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paveza, Gary" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Runaway train
> The latest I heard, was that there are 3 "brakes". An engineer set two of
> them, and instead of setting the third, hit the throttle, and wasn't aware
> of it until after he got off. The train decided to go though. It took
> another locomotive acting as a break (pulled up behind this train and
> connected while the train was moving) to slow it down to about 10 mph at
> which point an employee jumped into the first train and stopped it
> completely.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Gary L. Paveza, Jr.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Clogg [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:14 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Runaway train
>
> The news reports I have seen did not address the question of how
it
> happened. I was under the impression that train locomotives are
> equipped
> with a "dead man" control that brings the train to a halt if no
one
> is
> manning the controls.
>
> Train service in the U.S. is quite different from that in the U.K.
> and
> elsewhere in Europe. There are certain well-traveled routes in
the
> eastern
> U.S., such as New York to Boston, where high-speed electric trains
> are in
> use, but in most of the country the great distances and have made
> train
> travel nearly non-existent. The trains are diesel powered, and
very
> slow.
> Many passenger trains have a top speed of about 50 MPH. The
reason
> given
> for these speeds is the condition of the tracks. The majority of
> train
> traffic is freight, and the tracks are not laid out with speed in
> mind, and
> in many cases are not well maintained.
>
> The most common type of train accident is collisions with
> automobiles. Most
> of these accidents result in injury only to the occupants of the
> auto. We
> seem to have fewer accidents with large loss of life than the
U.K.,
> but I
> suspect that is attributable more to the smaller amount of
passenger
> train
> traffic than to better management.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 8:48 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: OT: Runaway train
>
>
> I was watching the news here in the UK and saw clips of the train
in
> the US
> that travelled for around 70 miles without a driver. How did it
> start
> without a driver? Did he forget to put the train into park and
went
> for a
> cup of coffee?? It seems a bit strange to me.
>
> I dont know a great deal about safety of trains in the US but
there
> have
> been some very serious and fatal train crashes here in the UK -
the
> latest
> of which a car ended up travelling down a embankment before a
bridge
> and
> getting stuck on the line. The car was hit by a a train which was
> then hit
> by another.
>
> I just wondered if train safety(or lack of it) was a global
problem
> and not
> just specific to this country.
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul Thompson
> Spark Response
> www.sparkresponse.com
>
>
>
>
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