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Quote from: maple flats on November 12, 2017, 08:48:38 PM
Going back to air brakes and brake failure, they are fail safe, in that if the air pressure suddenly fails, the brakes are applied...
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I believe that big train wreck was the result of a leak in the air tanks or the tank supply hoses which was faster than the pumps could replace it, the brakes over heated and failed. That was before...

As the song goes, "....3 mile grade...that he lost his air brakes...see what a jump he made....

There are a few variations but that's close.  From memory not google.

A VA Landmarks historic marker in Danville VA commemorates the accident and the 8 gentlemen who died that night.  I spent 3 months working as an engineering coop student for what's now CSX, met lots of true "Railroad Men" (not many women then) from central casting; that song moves me.
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