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To: Paladin2

How did that train derail on the inside of the curve. Doesn’t make sense. Centrifugal forces not in play here?


27 posted on 02/13/2014 3:50:24 PM PST by refermech
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To: refermech

Train handling... There was probably a grade there or the locomotive engineer was was power braking through the curve... envision the train as a rope you are pulling around a curve... The more tension on the rope the more lateral force to the inside it will have

In that picture, the wheels may have dropped inside the gage (wide gage)...and then the drawbar pull “stringlined” the train.


33 posted on 02/13/2014 5:07:12 PM PST by Rodamala
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