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It’s incredible how little that train slowed down (if it did at all).
Think of the mass of a freight train carrying over a miles worth of material behind it. Then a truck
I don’t even know how that gets started. Let alone stops.
Started is with, as you see, 3 to 5 massive diesel-electric engines, taking quite a while to max speed. Modern railways have electric engines that do the same but with better torque and traction, but we don't have modern railways in America.
Stopping is interesting. The engines have their own brakes, but three engines can't stop a train that long by themselves, the brakes would just melt. They are set mostly like a parking brake when you are already stopped.
The actual brakes are air brakes, with a tube of compressed air connecting from the front of the train to the back. Each car has its own brakes then that are applied as pressure is released from the brake system. Going into emergency brake is essentially all pressure being released and all brakes throughout the entire train engaging, and that is what we are seeing here.
With that though, the train is still tens of thousands of tons of mass moving at a max track speed of 55mph. It's going to take some time to slow that down, even with every brake being applied.
Don't fuck around with trains.
Wow, very interesting. If there wasn’t any critical damage to the train, might as well keep going till the destination!
From that level of crash I'd assume mostly cosmetic, maybe a tiny bit of damage right behind the hood, but yes I assume once the bits of truck were moved out of the way it just started up and kept going, probably visiting the shop on its next service stop is all
Ponderously.
FREIGHT TRAIN
These things take miles to slow down, usually tens of carriages loaded with metal, liquid, and whatever else.
Well that looked like a three locomotive formation, unless one of those is something else.
Who knows how eternally long that train is