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I understand that moose are responsible for quite a few train derailments, too. I presume they are sober, though.
by daoboy 3y ago
I understand that moose are responsible for quite a few train derailments, too.
I presume they are sober, though.
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoRIP Tycho Brahe's moose.
- zoky 3y agoMoose don’t give a fuck. A moose would derail a train just ‘cause.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoSource? I would have figured that a moose didn't have enough mass.
- cwmma 3y agoMoose are way bigger then you think.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoI know how big a moose is. I've been uncomfortably close to them more than once. But I also know how big a train is, and I still don't see it. I know that in terms of mass, a train is to a car as a car is to an empty beer can. A car can derail a train, but won't very often. A moose might weigh as much as a small car, but has less stiff metal in the frame. It still might derail a train... but not very often.
- giardini 3y agoBear and moose have plenty of fat et al. The derailment isn't a simple metal-on-metal action, it's a metal-on-moose-on-metal interaction. The moose is skin-protein-fat-bone-fat-protein-skin. Do the math.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoI'm not sure what math you think I'm supposed to do, but I know that a railroad wheel has ten tons of weight on a strip a couple of inches wide. If a moose is thin enough to not get knocked aside by the snowplow[1], it's probably thin enough to get cut through by the wheel. Still waiting for some evidence for the claim that "moose are responsible for quite a few train derailments". ----- [1] Yes, I know that not all railroad engines have them. Most that don't have a flat plate that still gets down pretty close to the track.
- COGlory 3y agohttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1350630723003278 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13506...
- daoboy 3y agoNo source. I'm just spreading moosinformation
- dboreham 3y agoUmmm. No. Train locomotive weighs 100 tons. Moose weighs 0.5 ton max. Moose are bad news vs a car though.