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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
"If you need an accelerometer to navigate a train, you’re on the wrong track, Casey Jones."

Unless, of course, you wat to make sure there's not another train on the same track or siding. Have you ever seen an overpass for trains, like you see for automobiles?

10 posted on 11/12/2018 5:27:13 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: norwaypinesavage
Have you ever seen an overpass for trains, like you see for automobiles?

Thanks for that.

Some folks gotta get out more.

20 posted on 11/12/2018 5:51:50 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: norwaypinesavage

Knowing your location tells you nothing about the location of another train. Train tracks are well instrumented, and keeping trains from colliding is a dispatch job, not a navigator’s.


23 posted on 11/12/2018 6:02:39 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

“Unless, of course, you wat to make sure there’s not another train on the same track or siding. Have you ever seen an overpass for trains, like you see for automobiles? “

... or you’re operating a train that lays its own track.


34 posted on 11/12/2018 8:27:10 AM PST by semaj (We are the People)
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