oops: Why wooden cars don't go over 80kph...

[James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>]

James Brook wrote:

> This photo shows two crashed tait cars. They don't have the anti-telescoping
> bars on the E and W cars.

This doesn't make much sense. :-) It should have been something like "They don't
have the anti-telescoping bars like the E and W cars".

> I have seen a photo of the Serviceton crash where an
> E sleeping car has demolished the end of a steel mail van (D1 I think). In the
> photo it looks a lot better than the steel car. I think the E car was Coliban,
> one of Steamrail's sleeping cars! :-) Can anyone confirm this? Of course, in a
> roll-over or a side impact the wooden cars would still splinter into a million
> pieces.



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