Re: Curious Statistics

["Nobody" <dweebken@NOSPAM.yahoo.com>]

I know well about Hammersley Iron. And the fact that it is an exception to
the rule - a private company with specialised track.
Funny how it takes a private company to get things right? And is the
standard required always right? Sometimes standards try to defy physics.

Brendan

"Freight_man" <freight_man@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Brendan <nadnerb_2000@NOSPAM.com.au> wrote in message
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> > Cow on track le hamburger yes. Derailment "extremely unlikely" . . .
hmmm.
> > Cows have big bones. And how did a cow get on the track? what else
could?
> >
> > As a matter of fact I did do physics. Something traveeling fast with
only
> a
> > couple of centimetres of flange doesnt need m
> > uch of a hit to go off.
> >
> > I remind you that the bridge derailment happened after a train hit a car
> > that had fallen off it. That could happen anywhere, wheter track is
> > conventional or not.
> >
> > and that doesnt change the fact that Australia's track is highly
> > conventional.
> >
> > Brendan.
> >
> Uh hum! need I remind you, [he he] young fella! Australia runs the longest
> and heaviest ore trains in the World! and the World comes here to see how
we
> bloody well do it!
> Our main lines are built to the standard required, and without any doubt,
if
> all the trucks were taken off the Hume Highway tomorrow, you would have a
> Hammersley type Railway conecting Melbourne with Brisbane within 3 years,
> and it would be fully paid for with the savings made [over road] within 5
> years of first commencing opperation.
> sorry mate I could not resist it
> Rod ;o)
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