Not the local trains here, Southern California. Our trains are either pulled
or pushed, depending on which way they are going.





"Snow" > wrote in message
...
> The local passenger commuter trains here have engines at both ends, so it
> always has one engine at the front pulling and the other at the back
> pushing..
>
> Snow...
>
> "Jeff Strickland" > wrote in message
> ...
> > The reason the train derailed so easily was that it was being pushed. If
> > the
> > engine was in the front, and was pulling the train, by all accounts it
> > would
> > have remained on the track The second train was being pulled by its
> > engine,
> > and it did remain on the track, having said that, the last car on the
> > second
> > train did come off the track, indeed it came off the train.
> >
> > The car of the train that hit the Jeep got pushed sideways by the
impact,
> > and since it was being pushed from behind by the locomotive, it left the
> > track. It went to the side where another freight locomotive was parked.
> > When
> > it hit that engine, then the car went completely sideways. In the mean
> > time,
> > due to the schedule, another train was coming from the opposite
direction
> > at
> > the same time. As the first train continued down the track, getting
worse
> > by
> > the second, it began to rub on the second train. Eventually the fully
> > sideways car of the first train caused the last car of the second train
to
> > completely leave the tracks, and become disconnected from its train.
After
> > all of that, the parked freight locomotive was tipped over and its fuel
> > spilled out and ignited.
> >
> > As a result of this accident, there might be a new rule for trains to
> > always
> > be pulled from the front and never pushed from the back. I don't know
how
> > this can be accomplished because most commuter trains have no means of
> > turning around. My guess is that they will keep engines on sidings, and
> > pull
> > the train the parked engine, then drive that engine (pointed the
opposite
> > direction) to the back of the train, and swap engines. This will
> > efffectively turn the train around without having to put in a turn
table.
> > It
> > will require lots of new engines for the commuter train systems.
> >
> >
> >
> > "Brian Foster" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> Guy in LA used one to derail a comuter train. Killed 11 people and
> >> injured
> >> 180. That's not very cool.
> >>
> >> But who would of thought a Jeep could derail a train?
> >>
> >> I would of thought it would look like a soda can after it was run over
by
> > a
> >> train.....
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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