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Posted by ebtmikado on Mon Apr 30 11:20:17 2012 Or will they? DEVICE TESTS HIGH SPEED TRAIN SAFETY: Engineers at NJTransit have developed a gun built specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of Locomotives and Railcars all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate incidents of collisions with airborne birds to test the strength of the windshields. AMTRAK engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrrangements were made. But when the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurtled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, crashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cab. Horrified AMTRAK engineers sent NJT the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and begged NJT for suggestions. NJT's response was just three words, "Thaw the chicken". |
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