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Posted on 07/05/2014 1:58:16 PM PDT by FlJoePa
“The fuselage on the left is buckled just aft of the cockpit...It’s a total loss.”
Looks more like a mid-ship buckle. Either way, a total loss.
Nah, just lay it on cinderblocks and someone will live in it
Yeah, sell it to a redneck.
I just knew they could do that!
My question would be, short of some disaster happening to the tracks with too little notice to do something about it, why would trains ever have to derail? At all?
With some kind of competent computer modeling of the train and the tracks and their terrain, it should be possible to govern the train’s speed to keep it upon the rails. Maybe this is 19th century technology but we can keep up with it using 21st century technology.
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I believe that the 19th century 54 1/2 inch track spacing they still use is a serious drawback to stability.
How much will Buffett's insurance company have to pay?
A Boeing 727 hotel suite in Costa Rica:
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Looks like it might be a regional, not BNSF:
http://www.king5.com/news/business/265863971.html
http://www.montanarail.com/about.php
It looks like it would take at least two cars per fuselage. Allowing for curves etc that would put considerable strain on any rigged turning mechanism used to compensate and allow the cars to turn. If that fails the load shifts and over it goes car and all just like with a tractor trailer flatbed. I’m surprised they don’t have more accidents like this if that is a regular way they transport the fuselages.
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