From: nilknocgeo@earthlink.net   
      
   "Nick Fotis"  wrote in message   
   news:lldvvg$kpo$1@news.ntua.gr...   
   > On 19/05/2014 19:28, Larry Sheldon wrote:   
   >> On 5/18/2014 10:48 PM, dpeltier@my-deja.com wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Because a.) the slack action at the end of a 100-car freight trains is   
   >>> not   
   >>> safe for occupied passenger cars, and ...[snip]   
   >>   
   >> How did the conductor and brakeman (-men) survive in the way cars?   
   >>   
   >   
   > with much slower acceleration and braking, I guess.   
   > If each coupler has a slack of one inch, in 100 cars the accumulated slack   
   > (and acceleration/deceleration) can be rather severe, if you are not very   
   > careful.   
   >   
   > N.F.   
      
   If the lack in a freight train is so severe that it would harm a human in   
   the last car, then think of the shock done to the oil.  No wonder they   
   derail.   
      
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