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by throwaway75787
1616 days ago
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Does this mean that the switch points were blocked by the trash/dumped packages? There was a video showing that one of the rails had fallen over on its side. I have never seen that in a derailment. I did see a WWII-era film where the US Army had a tough time derailing trains they were trying to sabotage, so this is all amazing to me. |
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Potentially, I know they can get clogged up with the right mixture of snow turned into ice. Trash is hard to pack that densely without trying though I suppose a large object could have jammed the switch gear.
>There was a video showing that one of the rails had fallen over on its side.
A train riding two rails will put a lot of sideways force on the rails pulling them together. Rails aren't shaped to resist very much force in that direction.
>where the US Army had a tough time derailing trains they were trying to sabotage, so this is all amazing to me.
They were working under very different constraints than you or I.