[Scan-DC] Re: VRE runaway locomotive

[cohenner at gmail.com]

On a locomotive, the can shut the unit down which will cause it to coast to a stop (eventually) even if the brakes were no good.
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-----Original Message-----
From: b_thom at juno.com

Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:13:43 
To:Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Re: VRE runaway locomotive




On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:25:29 -0700 (PDT) JOHN ANTONELLI
<johnantonelli at verizon.net> writes:
> I wonder HOW they stopped the train.

My thought too, but I figure only some of the brake shoes had been
removed, not all of them. On my car, I do only one brake at a time.
Probably true for working on locomotives. When the CSX crew hopped on the
locomotive, they were able to apply the brakes.
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