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All the cars pictured are double stack container cars. If they're empty or full of potato chips it really shouldn't surprise anyone that they blew over and too
by potato3732842 2y ago
All the cars pictured are double stack container cars. If they're empty or full of potato chips it really shouldn't surprise anyone that they blew over and took the cars with them in high wind conditions. Yeah the cars themselves are heavy but they're not that heavy and two containers is a big sail and the upper one has a fairly large lever arm over the car.
Loaded trains don't just "blow over" in anything short of biblical conditions. When there is heavy weather rail operators have been known to park loaded trains on top of various bits of infrastructure for additional security.
Edit: Freight trains, passenger trains are basically tin cans full of air.
- soupfordummies 2y ago> When there is heavy weather rail operators have been known to park loaded trains on top of various bits of infrastructure for additional security. Hello, could you explain a bit on what you mean by infrastructure? Like bridges or something?
- potato3732842 2y agoYeah, sketchy bridges mostly. They do it for wind, not water. High waters can erode abutments and pilings and then there goes your bridge.