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Really? $10 won't buy you much in terms of steel. You'd probably need a lot more than just a crowbar. I'm not saying trains are invulnerable to debris on the tr

Really? $10 won't buy you much in terms of steel. You'd probably need a lot more than just a crowbar. I'm not saying trains are invulnerable to debris on the tracks, just that they are designed to handle small stuff on the tracks.

Robotbeat 8y ago
A crowbar well-placed/used is sufficient.
IshKebab 8y ago
A crowbar is not "small stuff on the tracks". Have you ever seen a train?
- athenot 8y ago
  Yes. They are designed for that stuff. Here's the biggest accident (in France) from having a large object on the tracks: 80 ton oversized load. Only the engine car derailled. Trainset involved: 70 (Sud-Est) Service: train 736, Grenoble to Paris Location: PN 74, Voiron Injuries: 2 dead, 60 injured [Edit: date: 23 September 1988] A special road transport with a weight of 80 tons became stranded on level crossing 74. Train 736, rounding a curve toward the crossing, ploughed into it at 110 km/h (68 mph). The large mass of the road vehicle made this crash much worse than it might otherwise have been; the engineer and one passenger died, and many more were injured when the first trailer was ripped open by debris. Only the leading power unit derailed. This wreck, the most violent to date, became a reference for the design and crash testing of safety features for the next generation of TGV, as embodied by today's Duplex trainsets. These newer trains have several deformable sections, at the front and rear of the power unit and at the front of the first trailer, to manage and absorb crash energy without damage to passenger compartments. Trainset 70 was never returned to service, and the trailing unit 23140 became a spare in the Sud-Est fleet.
Faaak 8y ago
10$ is around 10kg of steel. With that, you can make a crude derailer and easily (and I mean it) derail a train.
dsfyu404ed 8y ago
Stop shopping at the hardware store and go to an actual steel supplier. If you don't need a lot of material then don't be picky and just by a drop to avoid a cut fee (and revise your design for whatever material you get).
aaron695 8y ago
Inspire issue 17 details how to derail a train and how to make the device to do it. It's open source jihad (I assume pretty similar to normal open source) and looks around $20 to make, p35 https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/inspire-magazine-17.pdf https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/inspire-magazine-...

Robotbeat 8y ago

A crowbar well-placed/used is sufficient.

IshKebab 8y ago

A crowbar is not "small stuff on the tracks". Have you ever seen a train?

athenot 8y ago
Yes. They are designed for that stuff. Here's the biggest accident (in France) from having a large object on the tracks: 80 ton oversized load. Only the engine car derailled. Trainset involved: 70 (Sud-Est) Service: train 736, Grenoble to Paris Location: PN 74, Voiron Injuries: 2 dead, 60 injured [Edit: date: 23 September 1988] A special road transport with a weight of 80 tons became stranded on level crossing 74. Train 736, rounding a curve toward the crossing, ploughed into it at 110 km/h (68 mph). The large mass of the road vehicle made this crash much worse than it might otherwise have been; the engineer and one passenger died, and many more were injured when the first trailer was ripped open by debris. Only the leading power unit derailed. This wreck, the most violent to date, became a reference for the design and crash testing of safety features for the next generation of TGV, as embodied by today's Duplex trainsets. These newer trains have several deformable sections, at the front and rear of the power unit and at the front of the first trailer, to manage and absorb crash energy without damage to passenger compartments. Trainset 70 was never returned to service, and the trailing unit 23140 became a spare in the Sud-Est fleet.

Faaak 8y ago

10$ is around 10kg of steel. With that, you can make a crude derailer and easily (and I mean it) derail a train.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago

Stop shopping at the hardware store and go to an actual steel supplier. If you don't need a lot of material then don't be picky and just by a drop to avoid a cut fee (and revise your design for whatever material you get).

aaron695 8y ago

Inspire issue 17 details how to derail a train and how to make the device to do it. It's open source jihad (I assume pretty similar to normal open source) and looks around $20 to make, p35 https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/inspire-magazine-17.pdf https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/inspire-magazine-...