[Servant of the 9]

The train was being pushed by it's locomotive. There was nothing in front but a light passenger car.

So9

[supercat]

Would it be practical to include an unoccupied 'crushable' car on the leading end of a pusher-train? The control cab should be rigid, of course, but the rest could be filled with some compressable fluid medium.

Would that be at all helpful in reducing the difference in risk between 'puller' and 'pusher' trains?