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Looks like single driver was not such a good idea after all.
Cheers,
Mike
Or none.Anyway, two-man crews should be mandatory on runs like that.
Denzel Washington was not available at the time :hehe:It probably would have been a smart move by the driver, when he saw the train starting to move forward, to climb aboard a wagon, then work his way back to the lead loco again. You see it in the movies.
Roy3b3
Cost will be round A$50 million and will close rail operations for BHP for at least a week. Only a small number of wagons will be salvaged.
Also queries as to why the dead man switch didn't operate.
Cheers,
Mike
Are you deliberately being obtuse ? our ONLY renewable resource? Do you know ANYTHING about Australia ? we have enough sunlight to provide power for half of Asia if we weren't so wedded to coal and we have more of that than almost anyone else on the planet. if you had any idea of what the place was like you would also know we are incredibly windy and an ideal place for wind farms.Iron ore and scrap metal ... they'll just make more ... It's Australia's only renewable natural resource, aside from ice cubes recipe: "fill with water, apply cold"
I loved the subway trick, where the telephone cord was wrapped around the cab controls, so the engineer could get off, and throw a platform switch, and hop back on in time ... sept' it dint' xzctwy' werk' owt' as planned
It' sad to read here, above, that BHP lost a good number of wagons in the derailment, but at least they stopped the train from plowing through any towns on it's deadly journey like this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-Mégantic_rail_disaster
Read about the events leading up to the disaster. Pretty scary stuff.
Not a lot of 'towns " anywhere in that country, might be a few villages but even they are far and few. of course if it had made it to the coast it would have caused a lot of damage, but even then, its hardly an inhabited area like the town in johns example, which was a horrible accident >
take a look, its just desert, they did the derailment automatically 1500ks away from the train itself. https://www.google.com/maps/search/...-21.7941443,118.7137442,622205m/data=!3m1!1e3