According to Steve the engineer the engine is stopped, sitting with no drive turning the wheels and just melts down through the track? Did I read that right? The wheels have obviously higher melting point than the track steel. Do you have to replace the engine wheels as well? (Are they weakened or warped out of round by high heat?) Sorry for all the questions, I still have my little kid fascination with trains.
I'm going with the locked brake burnout theory. I had a 66 Toronado. Could set the parking brake hard, power brake it and burn holes in the pavement. They were take off tires from customers who had bought new tires. Later, in a more professional posture, I worked with rail crews as a vendor. Wheel slip was to be avoided because of the damage even a little slip does to the rails. It does make a divot real fast. The divots can break a wheel and nasty things happen. The divots have also been show to cause derailments and generally beat the shit out of the rails and equipment. Odd, they are showing only one axel. An axle truck has at least 2 axels. So IDK anything. I wonder if they had to get a crane to get it out of the rut it made.
That's going to shut the line down for a while....and cost some $$$.
ReplyDeleteUsually caused when an air brake failure causes a set of wheels to get super hot, then when the train stops - this happens to the rails.
ReplyDeleteSteve the Engineer
Not when it stops but when it starts with brakes set somewhere along the line.
DeleteDaryl
Like those lane edge grooves on the freeway, they do that to wake up the engineer going down the wrong track.
DeletePorka Capo
Lots of power put to those drive wheels....can't overcome locked brakes, though.....pretty amazing.....
ReplyDeleteAccording to Steve the engineer the engine is stopped, sitting with no drive turning the wheels and just melts down through the track? Did I read that right? The wheels have obviously higher melting point than the track steel. Do you have to replace the engine wheels as well? (Are they weakened or warped out of round by high heat?) Sorry for all the questions, I still have my little kid fascination with trains.
ReplyDeleteI'm going with the locked brake burnout theory. I had a 66 Toronado. Could set the parking brake hard, power brake it and burn holes in the pavement. They were take off tires from customers who had bought new tires. Later, in a more professional posture, I worked with rail crews as a vendor. Wheel slip was to be avoided because of the damage even a little slip does to the rails. It does make a divot real fast. The divots can break a wheel and nasty things happen. The divots have also been show to cause derailments and generally beat the shit out of the rails and equipment. Odd, they are showing only one axel. An axle truck has at least 2 axels. So IDK anything. I wonder if they had to get a crane to get it out of the rut it made.
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