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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36551 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
When will the wheels be pulled? After the next derailment, greedy profits come first...Fixed it for you. ;-) I have nothing against companies making a reasonable profit, but these days that "reasonable" bit doesn't seem to be enough when gouging can be had instead. :-( |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66271 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
When will the wheels be pulled? After the next derailment, greedy profits come first...Fixed it for you. ;-) Well it seems to be their view, not mine. Savoir-Faire is everywhere! The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36551 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Not a good evening for travelling home by train.A 2015 system already becoming obsolete? Who didn't do their homework? Sydney trains digital radio system parts 'obsolete', according to confidential report. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30967 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
In the case of communications or computers it is obsolete by the time it comes off the assembly line. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24909 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Great result for the climate. Let the train take the strain |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13841 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Guess what?Not a good evening for travelling home by train.A 2015 system already becoming obsolete? Who didn't do their homework? More chaos on the Sydney train network. Apparently there are urgent signalling repairs being carried out at Homebush. Grant Darwin NT |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14676 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
The whole UK rail system seems to have been affected by a spate of signal failures recently. Sometimes these are attributed to the theft of electrical wiring from the trackside, but more often it's just left as a generic report without further explanation. |
Harri Liljeroos Send message Joined: 29 May 99 Posts: 4726 Credit: 85,281,665 RAC: 126 |
Burrowing badgers halt Dutch train services https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/badgers-trains-netherlands-intl-scli/index.html |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21081 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
The whole UK rail system seems to have been affected by a spate of signal failures recently. Sometimes these are attributed to the theft of electrical wiring from the trackside, but more often it's just left as a generic report without further explanation. The more often unreported bit is most likely 'happenings' from a complete lack of preventative maintenance. A director of a certain American company I once did support work for gave a horrified exclamation that I was being paid for keeping things working. Why pay someone if things are working?... Hence, for a transition period, the support became "response only"... And they suffered their first outages and very greatly increased costs... All in the stupidity of cooking the books, blindly one month at a time... See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36551 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Yet another 1 comes off the rails. Fiery train derailment in Minnesota prompts evacuations of homes. A train hauling ethanol and corn syrup derailed and caught fire in Minnesota early Thursday and nearby residents were ordered to evacuate their homes. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66271 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
In other developments 1 property at commercial property Cross Creek is in arbitration and the DroneZone is covering the location, viaduct and all. Savoir-Faire is everywhere! The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36551 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
And yet another jumps the rails. Train derails 25 cars in Montana, spilling unconfirmed contents. At least 25 cars derailed from a train in Montana on Sunday, spilling their contents onto the ground and into a nearby body of water. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21081 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
What's the economics of train derailments and the cleanups? Or is there a profitable game of the insurance pays?... Certainly, someone suffers paying... Stay clear folks!! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30967 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Certainly, someone suffers paying... Maybe not. Might be like the airlines and there is a false low limit on damages by law. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13841 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
What's the economics of train derailments and the cleanups?Don't know how ture it is, but i've heard of the Ford Pinto, and the problem with it's fuel tank in a collision. Supposedly Ford figured out it was cheaper to payoff for any deaths or injuries that occurred than to recall & repair the entire production of Pintos that were affected. Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the railways have done the same cost/benefit analysis. Save so much money by cutting back on maintenance/ increasing servicing intervals. Whatever costs are incurred as a result of the anticipated increase in accidents & incidents will still be paid for by the reduced maintenance costs (at least until the lack of maintenance & age of the fleets reaches the point where the accidents & incidents go well beyond the earlier estimates & the whole business starts collapsing in on itself. By that time those that made the decisions will have picked up all their bonuses for improving the bottom line (even though it was only temporary & a result of accounting double speak) and have moved on to greener pastures). Ain't free enterprise great? Grant Darwin NT |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66271 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
What's the economics of train derailments and the cleanups?Don't know how ture it is, but i've heard of the Ford Pinto, and the problem with it's fuel tank in a collision. Out here east of where I live at the UPRR had a derailment, it was a runaway freight train, so no one got hurt, the contents? Iron Ore... Pretty much only the 2 mangled locos could be seen, the 55 cars? Bits and pieces... The BNSF had a derailment in Aridzona back on March 15th near the i40... The Daily Press has an article on it here. San Bernardino County Fire officials on Monday morning responded to a Union Pacific train derailment near Kelso Depot in the Mojave National Preserve east of Barstow. Photo Courtesy Of The San Bernardino County Fire Department. Savoir-Faire is everywhere! The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19354 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
And in Montana a train spills its load of beer and powdered clay into a river. Hard cleanup: Montana train derailment spills beer and clay |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19354 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
AP - Deadly train derailment near The Hague BBC - Dutch rail crash: One dead after passenger train hits crane and derails At least one person has been killed and about 30 injured - some seriously - after a passenger train derailed in the western Netherlands. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21081 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
For those USA trains, there looks to be a repeated story of a concertinaed pile-up before the brakes take effect... Maybe some design flaw?... Stay safe folks! Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66271 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
For those USA trains, there looks to be a repeated story of a concertinaed pile-up before the brakes take effect... The entire train has air brakes and so the brakes go from one end to the other. That said here's a better explanation:
Savoir-Faire is everywhere! The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST |
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