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p1stonhead said:
rohrl said:
Good job he's wearing his safety helmet and hi-viz.
WTF is he doing?! Hooking something onto it?I think they have to do it while the joining train is still being "pushed" so that there is enough compression on the buffers to get the chain over both wagons' hooks. When the locomotive stops pushing then the buffers try to push the wagons apart again so you would no longer be able to get the chain hooked on. Obviously the incoming wagons normally come in a bit slower than that!
He is probably actually reasonably safe so long as he moves with the wagons and stays in that bit between the buffers, he can't get squashed there, whereas if he tried to jump out and got caught between the buffers of the two wagons it's definitely squishy time. Even if he fell over so long as he falls straight down into the track bed and not into the buffer area or rails/wheels the wagon will just roll right over him, there's a lot of space there.
kev1974 said:
p1stonhead said:
rohrl said:
Good job he's wearing his safety helmet and hi-viz.
WTF is he doing?! Hooking something onto it?I think they have to do it while the joining train is still being "pushed" so that there is enough compression on the buffers to get the chain over both wagons' hooks. When the locomotive stops pushing then the buffers try to push the wagons apart again so you would no longer be able to get the chain hooked on. Obviously the incoming wagons normally come in a bit slower than that!
He is probably actually reasonably safe so long as he moves with the wagons and stays in that bit between the buffers, he can't get squashed there, whereas if he tried to jump out and got caught between the buffers of the two wagons it's definitely squishy time. Even if he fell over so long as he falls straight down into the track bed and not into the buffer area or rails/wheels the wagon will just roll right over him, there's a lot of space there.
You don't need to be between buffer and hook to engage the chain. There are tools to do that from track side.
I would estimate that that was a 3 mph coupling, maybe 4. The single unloaded tank car weighing about 16 ton and the receiving car the same if not part of a train set.
That would result in a coupling force in the region of 500 kN so 50 ton.
If he fell there is not so much room as suggested and so I would expect bodily fluids time.
I know people who have had crippling pelvic injuries at 0,? Mph coupling accidents.
Darwin etc etc decrease the surplus population etc etc.
so called said:
kev1974 said:
p1stonhead said:
rohrl said:
Good job he's wearing his safety helmet and hi-viz.
WTF is he doing?! Hooking something onto it?I think they have to do it while the joining train is still being "pushed" so that there is enough compression on the buffers to get the chain over both wagons' hooks. When the locomotive stops pushing then the buffers try to push the wagons apart again so you would no longer be able to get the chain hooked on. Obviously the incoming wagons normally come in a bit slower than that!
He is probably actually reasonably safe so long as he moves with the wagons and stays in that bit between the buffers, he can't get squashed there, whereas if he tried to jump out and got caught between the buffers of the two wagons it's definitely squishy time. Even if he fell over so long as he falls straight down into the track bed and not into the buffer area or rails/wheels the wagon will just roll right over him, there's a lot of space there.
You don't need to be between buffer and hook to engage the chain. There are tools to do that from track side.
I would estimate that that was a 3 mph coupling, maybe 4. The single unloaded tank car weighing about 16 ton and the receiving car the same if not part of a train set.
That would result in a coupling force in the region of 500 kN so 50 ton.
If he fell there is not so much room as suggested and so I would expect bodily fluids time.
I know people who have had crippling pelvic injuries at 0,? Mph coupling accidents.
Darwin etc etc decrease the surplus population etc etc.
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so called said:
kev1974 said:
p1stonhead said:
rohrl said:
Good job he's wearing his safety helmet and hi-viz.
WTF is he doing?! Hooking something onto it?I think they have to do it while the joining train is still being "pushed" so that there is enough compression on the buffers to get the chain over both wagons' hooks. When the locomotive stops pushing then the buffers try to push the wagons apart again so you would no longer be able to get the chain hooked on. Obviously the incoming wagons normally come in a bit slower than that!
He is probably actually reasonably safe so long as he moves with the wagons and stays in that bit between the buffers, he can't get squashed there, whereas if he tried to jump out and got caught between the buffers of the two wagons it's definitely squishy time. Even if he fell over so long as he falls straight down into the track bed and not into the buffer area or rails/wheels the wagon will just roll right over him, there's a lot of space there.
You don't need to be between buffer and hook to engage the chain. There are tools to do that from track side.
I would estimate that that was a 3 mph coupling, maybe 4. The single unloaded tank car weighing about 16 ton and the receiving car the same if not part of a train set.
That would result in a coupling force in the region of 500 kN so 50 ton.
If he fell there is not so much room as suggested and so I would expect bodily fluids time.
I know people who have had crippling pelvic injuries at 0,? Mph coupling accidents.
Darwin etc etc decrease the surplus population etc etc.
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