That happened to me more than once. The most memorable one was right at the crest of the ruling southbound grade at Covesville, just outside of Charlottesville. The surge of three down-on-their-knees SD40-2s when a high/low lets go is rather impressive. I never got a knuckle on the lead car, but I guess a high/low release is close.
Say, remember the old days when locomotives had their own special solid knuckles? LAMCO said, "phukk that schitt" a long time ago.
There are many "separations" on YouTube. Watched this one tonight and its a great "separation" in front of a "group of railfans". I'm not sure if its in any rulebook where you/conductor cant accept a ride from strangers right to where the problem is. Certainly speeded up things as just the walk back a 100 cars would take 10 minutes. I'd say these railfans were this train crews guardian angels this day...no matter if they are odd looking.
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I never understood how a train becomes uncoupled while at speed for no reason....Just comes apart.
Have had it happened to me twice in my years and both times they were DP trains....No weird slack or anything just out of no where, "PSSSHHHH!" goes the air...
2Larco came out with a train makeup restriction about 7 or 8 years ago where all loaded coil cars MUST be on the head end and IIRC you can't have more than 8 or 9? Unless you are a unit train of coil cars of course. It's some weird odd random ass number like that and I always wondered what that was about as well.
I wonder and dont understand about a lot of things.....
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the speed on the track is 10 mph and its restricted speed, so at 10 on that blind corner they had a banner set up....
First of all grain hoppers are junk and always coming uncoupled...no breakage...just the pin bounces up when slack is bunched and doesn't' fall back down fast enough to stand the stretch. Also, any time something by way of brush is sticking out far enough...if it don't break when you hit it...and it's cut lever height...it will catch some cut levers and lift them...whether pins stay up or not is a matter of luck. Every once in while one doesn't and as you say...psssssshhh!
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