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They don’t need to even do that, just occasionally send the train past a thermal camera and look for wheels that are warmer than average.
by extrapickles 4y ago
They don’t need to even do that, just occasionally send the train past a thermal camera and look for wheels that are warmer than average.
- JustSomeNobody 4y agoIt is very odd to me that states do this very thing for trucking, but apparently do not do it for rail.
- falcolas 4y agoThey did. It was ignored. IIRC, the exact wording from dispatch was "If it's still alerting at the next sensor it's a problem."
- JustSomeNobody 4y agoThanks for the clarification.
- muttled 4y agoI'm astonished that they treat those alarms like I treated the check-engine light as a poor kid who reasoned that the car seems to still be running fine.
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- Symbiote 4y agoHere's a page on several of the automatic checks that exist for railways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defect_detector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defect_detector
- benburwell 4y agoIn general, this is actually done: there are defect detectors that are installed along tracks that monitor for several conditions as trains pass over/through them. Once the train has passed, a voice radio message is sent to the train crew. Here's an example of one working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7BGg82uQ1U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7BGg82uQ1U I'm not sure whether similar equipment was a factor in the East Palestine incident.