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Originally Posted by aerohead
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13) The 'Environment' is just going to transmogrify within positive feedback loops, like a brakeless S-P, 69-car freight train full of fertilizer, descending Cajon Pass on a collision course with the City of San Bernardino at 160-km/h, on top of a shallow, 14-inch pressurized CAL-MET fuel pipeline.
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Umm no actually it was 40 cars of Trona (glass making additive) from out of ridgecrest at 4 times the estimated weight, and some other freight at the end, had mechanical brakes and partial dynamic braking on some of the engines, but not enough to deal with the downslope. When they hit emergency stop, it disengaged the pitiful dynamic braking. They found the brake pads welded to the wheels afterwards, and the fuel induced fire happened after they restarted the pipeline some time later after a rushed, shoddy inspection.