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Re: Village Voice Article Explains: The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down |
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Posted by Jace on Thu Mar 15 10:02:55 2018, in response to Re: Village Voice Article Explains: The Trains Are Slower Because They Slowed the Trains Down, posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Mar 15 07:33:40 2018. Air brake application is not identical - how can you have the same brake rates with one fully pneumatic and the other blended? The answer is in part in the report. Read it carefully; you'll see too that this response does not answer the question as to why the emergency brake rates were too low.The brakes were modified during GOH but not tested until at least four years after the cars were released for service. The R40s did not pass stopping distance tests then (in 1993), nor in 1995 just after the wreck. Other cars with composition shoes passed. Somehow the R40s passed the tests nine months following the wreck after NYCT insisted that the 1995 tests were not representative. |
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