Amtrak derailment. How is this possible?

[Noor]

"new analysis of video showed the train quickly accelerated from 70 to 100 miles per hour in less than a minute"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/u...alse&moduleDetail=undefined&pgtype=Multimedia

I do not get how the train could accelerate that quickly, it seems to take them forever to get up to top speed.

Any train specialists on here?

 

[eyer]

Any train specialists on here?

http://forum.literotica.com/member.php?u=1922087

 

[renard_ruse]

http://www.100xr.com/artists/T/Train/Train-band.jpg

 

[Noor]

sigh...

 

[patient1]

The Northeast Corridor is electrified, so it's kinda like a Lionel train set, you just move the lever and it goes. Not only does a passenger train not have the weight of a freight train, but the locomotive itself only has the weight of the electric motors- No 5,000 gallons of fuel, no massive diesel engine blocks. Less mass means faster acceleration.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

"new analysis of video showed the train quickly accelerated from 70 to 100 miles per hour in less than a minute"
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/u...alse&moduleDetail=undefined&pgtype=Multimedia

I do not get how the train could accelerate that quickly, it seems to take them forever to get up to top speed.

Any train specialists on here?

The train achieved a 30 mph increase in speed over the course of 45 seconds. Sit and watch the secondhand of a clock pass through 45 seconds and tell me that a 30 mph increase in speed over 45 seconds of a mass already moving at 70 mph seems like a phenomenal rate of acceleration to you.

It isn't. It is fully consistent with Newton's laws of motion.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

One of the train's conductors is in town and the local news interviewed him about the crash. What he figgers is someone went inside the engineer cab, knocked the engineer unconscious, and changed the speed.

On the other hand engineers never intentionally wreck trains or airplanes or nuthin.

 

[dolf]

or a form of epilepsy. or dozing off. or alien abduction.

 

[DesEsseintes]

Noor, if accelerating from 70 to 100 mph in under a minute seems inordinately fast to you, you need to break out the heavy right foot, or buy a new car!

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

A stiff tail wind.

 

[imalickin]

Was it downhill?

 

[patient1]

I once had a conversation with a railroad engineer. I said I was jealous, because I lived about 100 yards from the tracks as a kid, my grandfather was a ( steam locomotive )fireman, and being an engineer was my dream job.

He said it's just physics on a massive scale. Everything you do, you do gradually, otherwise the cars in the middle pop out....
..and they tend to frown on that.


I suspect Noor is accustomed to prudent engineers that obey the posted limits and change speed gradually, saving time in the long run by staying on the tracks.

After all, the degree of bank and radius of the curves dictates the speed range, not just the condition of the rails. Sitting freight cars have actually fallen off of tracks designed for high speed passenger service.

 

[chillywilly2]

We have a big train trestle up this way, its on a curve. We were working around it with a crane and we have to warn the trains we are there.

Apperently, if they hit the brakes while on this trestle, the sideways forces due to the curve will collapse the trestle...its about 200 feet high and a third of a mile long

 

[NeverEndingMe]

typical union worker, thought he could get away with breaking the rules

 

[MNGuy]

The engineer, conductor, driver, or whatever they are called was accelerating while screaming 'Alluha ackbar!', or 'Admiral Ackbar!'.

Jesus, I sound like busybody.

 

[Noor]

So would the emergency brake being hit make the train more unstable?

Our local Amtrak, the Empire Builder, is not electrified.

Yes, I need a car with more acceleration, I have a Honda CRV. I used to have a 1977 Olds custom cruiser (350 in³ (5.7 L) V8) followed by a 1985 Buick Wagon ( Olds 307 V8). The 77 was held together with airplane aluminum. I got neither of these new.

I got my 2001 Honda in 2003, it was used, I paid cash, it was what I could afford at the time. It has held up very well, but it doesn't acceleration fast.

 

[Busybody]

cause the engineer was GAY and was busy scrubbing his social media sites and lost control

BTW, his DICK PICKS are all over teh web

 

[Busybody]

http://gotnews.com/breaking-gotnews-ids-gay-activist-train-engineer-who-caused-amtrak-crash/

 

[Busybody]

http://www.city-data.com/forum/poli...nsfw-here-amtrak-engineer-brandonbostian.html

 

[Noor]

So far no proof he was on the phone and your breaking news is 2 days old.

 

[Busybody]

So far no proof he was on the phone and your breaking news is 2 days old.

his social medai was scruubed around the time of teh crash

FACT

he was getting a Bee Jay and fucked up

 

[Noor]

his social medai was scruubed around the time of teh crash

FACT

he was getting a Bee Jay and fucked up

I read that his friends/family did it after they heard about the crash.

 

[Busybody]

I read that his friends/family did it after they heard about the crash.

you would "hear" that



how SOON after

how did they know he was at the helm?

I call BeeEss

 

[Noor]

you would "hear" that



how SOON after

how did they know he was at the helm?

I call BeeEss

They probably knew his schedule.

 

[Busybody]

They probably knew his schedule.

and they decided the FIRST thing to do was scrub his footprint?

WHY?