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Re: Walk between the cars why? When you can Ride on the Back of them. |
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Posted by f179dj on Thu Sep 24 13:05:54 2009, in response to Re: Walk between the cars why? When you can Ride on the Back of them., posted by Subterranean Railway on Thu Sep 24 12:13:57 2009. We are going nowhere with this, except trying other people's patience (You must try mine sometime [G. Marx; not Karl]).AFAIK, decreasing deceleration rates were a maintenance issue, and not lawsuit related. That and the switch to composition shoes, instead of cast iron. Costs alot to round out flat wheels. Even my wife can recognize the sound of them now, lol. Litigation is a funny thing. Lawyer: Did you see my clients riding on the back of the train? C/R: Yes. Lawyer: Did you think it was a danger to life and limb? C/R: Yes. Lawyer: Did this constitute an emergency in your x-number of years of transit experience? C/R: Yes. Lawyer: They why did you not activate the emergency brake? Or, if this was a flow chart, let's back up and C/R answers "no" to the did not constitute an emergency question: Lawyer: Oh, so you, as a transit professional with x-number of years on the job don't think that someone riding on the back of your train is an emergency situation? C/R says hommina, hommina, hommina in both cases. As I said earlier, damned if you do and damned if you don't. We disagree on the "safe course of action." For me it is the EBV (i misspoke before; they renamed it from CEV to EBV; the names have been changed to protect the innocent; same purpose). And the deceleration rate difference is almost negligible; .1 or .2 mphps between full service and emergency (from memory; not pulling out the manuals). There are other reasons for using emergency braking over service braking (that I won't go into here) that make it the preferable course of action. |
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