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Re: [OM] OT: Literacy in News Reporting - NOT!

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Literacy in News Reporting - NOT!
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 21:02:21 -0500
I assumed that the locomotives were still coupled, that only the personnel 
were changing.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Chris Trask" <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Olympus Camera 
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Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Literacy in News Reporting - NOT!


> >
>>I mentioned this accident to my wife, and she said she heard a TV news
>>report that said the train was changing crews, and it may have been on a
>>slope.  So, we may be talking about "parking breaks".  It did a lot of
>>damage.
>>
>
>     The accident strikes me as being a bit odd.  The Westinghouse Safety 
> Brake applies the brake shoes in the absence of compressed air, the 
> opposite of the earlier K-Brake system.  This was the invention that made 
> George Westinghouse fabulously rich, before he teamed up with Tesla and 
> began generating electricity.  The brakes should have been fully applied 
> as soon as the air coupling from the locomotives was broken.  It's 
> basically a dead-man system.
>
>     This accident actually sounds more like deliberate sabotage.
>
>
> Chris
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