To: Sacajaweau
A hotbox detector should have picked up on the bad bearing. They are designed to do that. In the real world things break, and it's not always foreseeable. The world is complicated. No one is to blame.
15 posted on
02/22/2023 1:40:40 PM PST by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
I agree....millions of parts...stuff happens...
I'm thinking about the speeds through these hick towns...I know waiting for a train to pass is annoying...but it's better than getting behind a dumb a** Amish buggy.
To: Governor Dinwiddie
A hotbox detector should have picked up on the bad bearing. They are designed to do that. In the real world things break, and it's not always foreseeable. The world is complicated. No one is to blame.Hot box detectors are typically placed on 20 mile intervals. A bearing can burn off in 5 miles and derail a car. That was the point of the monitoring system I was building for FRA. The locomotive operator would get notification as soon as the bearing passed a settable threshold and well before a burn-off. If reports are correct, there were two hot box detectors that failed ahead of the Ohio derail.
33 posted on
02/22/2023 2:00:04 PM PST by
Myrddin
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