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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 21:08:21 -0500
I was wrong.  Here are more detailed reports:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/07/quebec-police-expect-more-deaths-after-oil-train-derailment-kills-at-least-1/

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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>I assumed that the locomotives were still coupled, that only the personnel
> were changing.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
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>> >
>>>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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