From: ce11son@yahoo.ca   
      
   On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:18:04 +0100, Marc Van Dyck   
    wrote:   
      
   >peterwezeman@hotmail.com used his keyboard to write :   
   >> in the case of a semi truck there might be as much as three   
   >> hundred gallons of diesel oil onboard. Does the design of a locomotive or   
   >> motor unit incorporate any protection from this?   
   >   
   >While gasoline can ignite quite easily, this is much less the case   
   >for diesel. It takes quite extreme conditions to happen.   
   >   
   Not all that extreme, it just requires a fine spray or mist to be   
   produced to come into contact with an ignition source; more an   
   unfortunate combination than extreme circumstances. This is what   
   caused the fire at the Ladbroke Grove crash in West London in 1999.   
      
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