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Cool video. That machine is incredible.
by noveltyaccount 3y ago
Cool video. That machine is incredible.
- myself248 3y agoWild. The workers seem to be wearing the amount of PPE that I'd want if I was just walking along downwind, but nowhere near the amount I'd want if I was working in the thick of things 8 hours a day. I wonder what their lung disease rates are like.
- cratermoon 3y agoThe ones I see are wearing N-95 masks or equivalent. I'm no expert, but based on what I've learned since early 2020 I'd say that's plenty, provided they only use them for one day and toss them out.
- MarkusWandel 3y agoSteam locomotives, at least, used total loss lubrication. Their brakes were made of asbestos. And a good preservative for railroad ties was creosote. Never mind the stuff they spray to keep vegetation at bay. So even I would probably be wanting to wear an N95 mask if exposed to dust from that stuff all day.
- Gare 3y ago> And a good preservative for railroad ties was creosote. Still is. There is even an EU exception to the ban because no replacement was good enough.
- cratermoon 3y agoPro tip: never use railroad ties or any part of a railroad tie in your campfire.
- swader999 3y agoDon't use any kind of treated wood.
- Symbiote 3y agoIn this case it's a high speed line which will never have seen a steam locomotive, and where most trains will use dynamic braking (returning the power to the electricity grid, or else dumping it into resistors).