Re: [Vic] Footscray Accident - Photo's

[Peter Homann <"peter.homann"@@prr.org.au>]

OgO wrote:
> 
> In aus.rail, on 06 Jun 2001, B. announced:
> 
> > I inspected proceedings in the evening, and my pictures can
> > be found at:
> >
> > http://four12.net/fsy
> >
> 
> Good pics
> 
> > WRT the discussion on the chains, the cars were all
> > eventually chained up together using the quite small chain.
> > The move back to NPT was made with both the front and rear 3
> > car sets under power, it appeared that the rear set actually
> > kept the whole train under compression, thus not loading the
> > chains up too much.
> >
> 
> Ah, yes that was me started that :)  And that was what I was
> wondering - would those chains be enough to hold the carriages
> together should they decide they don't want to be together.
> 

Looks like it!

If you're pushing from the back, and braking from the front, as was
described somewhere for that movement, the small chain probably wouldn't
be an issue, as it would have next to no load on it.

Cheers.

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 Peter Homann
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