Re: Comet impact in the Eastern United States - Feasibility of Evacuation

Joy Beeson schrieb:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:07:40 +0100, Matthias Warkus
> <Warkus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>>  Also, locomotives 
>> are very good at pu****ng obstacles away; a train can push a broken-down

>> train along up to the next siding. 
> 
> A quote from
> http://www.railroad.net/articles/columns/hottimes/hottimes_20061021.php
> 
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> I told him that wasn’t going to happen reiterating the part about it
> being a big tree. I think I might have embellished it a bit by adding
> the adjective really in front of big. Then the Trainmaster joined in
> and suggested we try to shove it out of the way using the locomotive.
> Oh ya, that’s brilliant. And to think they pay him to make decisions.
> I guess he figured a big heavy tree versus switch engine with 1000
> horsepower, locomotive wins. Perhaps if I had a big scraper blade like
> a D-9 Caterpillar tractor I could win the battle, but I didn’t and I
> couldn’t therefore I wouldn’t. When I asked if was going to assume any
> and all responsibility for all the damage the locomotive was likely to
> incur in such an undertaking he failed to answer. When I prompted him
> again for an answer in a rather heated tone he responded for us to not
> do anything and stand by. And so we did.
> 
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There's a difference between trying to push away a tree and trying to 
push away a train or even a car. Trees in fact are probably the worst 
thing to put across a railway track next to a tank.

mawa
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