03-27-2010, 10:19 AM
what kind of brakes do these cars have??
I worked for the SRA in NSW (government railways) and uncoupling a cars airlines automatically put the brakes on full bore
we dont have these `hump yards' either- for a carriage to move it has to be coupled to a diesel shunter
seems to me that any system that gives a carriage a shove and lets it roll till it bangs into something is bound by its nature to go horribly wrong sooner or later.....
:-(
(all shunting done now has the loco with a horn blast that its moving the carriage and the loco itself has one of those annoying `beep beep' style beepers whenever its in motion)
I worked for the SRA in NSW (government railways) and uncoupling a cars airlines automatically put the brakes on full bore
we dont have these `hump yards' either- for a carriage to move it has to be coupled to a diesel shunter
seems to me that any system that gives a carriage a shove and lets it roll till it bangs into something is bound by its nature to go horribly wrong sooner or later.....
:-(
(all shunting done now has the loco with a horn blast that its moving the carriage and the loco itself has one of those annoying `beep beep' style beepers whenever its in motion)
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