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   "Stephen Sprunk"  wrote in message   
   news:lle7rn$10q$1@dont-email.me...   
   > On 19-May-14 19:11, conklin wrote:   
   >> "Nick Fotis"  wrote in message   
   >> news:lldvvg$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.   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > And that oil is in sealed containers full of liquid; oh no, the oil   
   > might suffocate and/or drown!   
   >   
   > "Safe for oil" and "safe for humans" are very different things.   
   >   
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   > Stephen Sprunk         "God does not play dice."  --Albert Einstein   
   > CCIE #3723         "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the   
   > K5SSS        dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking   
      
   Until the shock causes them  to derail.   
      
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