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November 12th 04, 04:49 PM
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Dangers of High Speed Trains Pushed from the Rear
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:10:58 UTC, David Hansen
wrote: : The forces the power cars produce are minor compared : to the forces involved in a crash. 3000hp at 100mph is pretty close to 5 tons of thrust. As David says, compared to the crash forces on half a train (4 * 35 ton coaches + 1 * 70 ton locomotive = 210 tons), that's trivial. Ian -- |
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