Posted on 02/14/2023 2:24:38 PM PST by libstripper
deo is raising questions for people in East Palestine, Ohio, CBS Pittsburgh reports.
The video, which captured the train 20 miles before it reached the site where it derailed, is raising questions about when the crew knew there was a problem.
The video, obtained by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, was taken by a security camera at an equipment plant in Salem, Ohio. What appears to be sparks and flames can be seen in the video under one of the train cars as it passes the plant. The National Transportation Safety Board referenced the video at a news conference last week.
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Well, you couldn’t definitely see the flames in the video, and that may have been what made them break.I wonder if there was a malfunction or sabotage. 20 miles is quite a distance, although I’m sure it takes miles to stop a loaded train.
Sorry, you COULD see the flames.
Sabotage of the brakes?
What? The Putz-Gazzette is actually reporting this?
It looked like the fire was there on the track before the car that it set on fire. ?? I’m here to learn.
RE: flying over the handlebars.
Great anti-gay scene in Diamonds Are Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuNs497WkBQ
It's an age old problem for railroads.
“ It looked like the fire was there on the track before the car that it set on fire. ?? I’m here to learn.”
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Hard to tell. The “fire” or whatever clearly seemed to be coming from under one of the cars and travelled along with that car. I heard it described as a “HOT WHEEL INCIDENT” at the linked site. If the crew was alerted to it they should have stopped the train immediately.
He also converts Pussy Galore from lesbian to straight. All she needed was a real man.
This is hinted at in the movie, but explicit in the book.
Several other "homophobic" insinuations in the Bond books. But Goldfinger is the most "homophobic," as Bond himself reveals his disgust at them.
The Norfolk Southern line near me has “hot box detectors” about every 10 miles. Dragging equipment detectors less frequently. They automatically report milepost, track number, number of axles, and any defects via radio.
They use to have a Caboose with a BRAKEMAN just for watching for this very thing...sometimes the old way is the best solution
Good points, all.
Remember Honor Blackmun who turned from disdainful to passionate and helped Bond after all. After saying she was immune.
“I think I appealed to her——maternal instincts.”
I remember sixty years ago when KCS trains would accidentally set the grass along the tracks on fire with sparks thrown from the wheels. We almost lost our house a few times from fires. It seems to be a lot less now as they do maintain the tracks much better.
You’re right. I never said the most or the pinnacle of the anti-gay scenes.
And I traded obscure references and quotes with my buddy at work. He was the winner usually but didn’t “have a life” as William Shatner would have advised him to get. Sort of like Tony DiNozzo character on NCIS.
I started reading the books when I read in Time Magazine that John F. Kennedy liked them. Saw Goldfinger for 50 cents (2nd run theater so it wasn’t 75 cents). Crowd did giggle when they heard Galore’s name. Note: JFK, Ian Fleming, Roger Moore and I are all Geminis.
First, go to MSN to help them pay their bills.
“I wonder if there was a malfunction or sabotage”
It’s a “hotbox”, something as old as railroading. An axle bearing overheats to the point that it creates a fire.
One reason that trains used to have cabooses was to watch for hotboxes. Today railroads use automated defect detectors that are supposed to alert crews to overheating axles.
But there’s a new problem that’s been created by a data driven innovation called Precision Scheduled Railroading. PSR has enabled extremely long trains with smaller crews, which to bean counters is perfect. But it’s also changed the way that trains are assembled, which has created an inherently dangerous situation that leads to derailments.
Before PSR trains could be assembled with heavy cars up front and lighter cars at the end. If you don’t do that you end up with heavy loads behind lighter cars, and when the train applies its brakes heavier cars can shove lighter ones off of the rails. Inertia at work.
But PSR treats cars like they are computer digits, it’s interested in destination and pays little or no attention to weight distribution. Combine that with massively longer and heavier trains and you have created a recipe for disaster. Railroad workers have warned about this but no one pays them any attention. It’s the usual situation of regarding the worker bees as if they are idiots. We can expect more derailment disasters until the problems created by PSR are addressed.
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