So have any of you ever put anything on the railroad tracks? I know as a kid i did it a lot. But when you work for the railroad you hit stuff CONSTANTLY. I cant name all of the household crap our trains ran over when i worked for csx. Most railroaders who are truely rail geniuses can attest that very few things can cause a train to derail. Tie plates have never derailed one of the trains i was on. 1 day we hit 3 going 45 mph in a row. They just shatter. Railroad spikes have always either flattend out bent over the rail and flattened. Or shot off the track when we hit them. Shopping carts became shopping bits. Microwave ovens became balled up chunks of metal. A bed frame we hit once got drug along under the plow for a few miles before finaly destroyed at a switch. A portable derailer will derail almost any railed vehicle moving at any speed. Tho it may not derail the machine which moves nasa rockets to the launch pad. A HUGE object is required to derail a train. The forces between a locomotives flanged steel wheels are incredibly intense. That would take a much stronger and more dense force to interupt AND alter the path the locomotives wheelset is taking. This is impossible to do using a coin. I have seen kids put crap on the tracks all the time. I did it too as a kid. So it never really concerned me. HOWEVER anyone throwing objects at the locomotives would probably get theyre asses beat if i got my hands on them. But anyways. Meow.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:03:24 +0000
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