Slug and Train Delay

Please READ MORE for the video. Slug and Train Delay. Small details can be big deal. Both of train schedule and punctuality are important things, slugs and snails or something like that too.

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https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/55823780/4421478

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Train Passes Through Apartment, Monorail Station In Apartment

Please READ MORE for the video. There are two main different types of monorail system. Suspended (vehicle suspended below the track) and Straddle (vehicles over the track). Both of those type of monorails have advantages and disadvantages to each other. When deciding which to choose, landforms are significant variable. Suspended type needs columns throughout track, whereas some hills be useable as columns for straddle type of track. That monorail transportation system uses a apartment floor as a station.

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Derailment Experiment, Railway Sabotage

Please READ MORE for the video. Test is not everything but many thing. This experiment is about controlled derailment of a freight train due to rail failure. It calls as shortly Sabotage. You can find out rail joint location type (Square (generally on alignment sections) or Staggered joint (generally on curve sections). We can say that bogies ensure alignment of wheels on track. Also wheel diameter is significant parameter for that kind of derailment. I have to say that Nadal and Weinstock criterions are about derailment (rail and wheel angles and their coefficient of friction and vertical and lateral forces etc.). 

Some of railway sabotages in literature. 

• 1905: 20th Century Limited derailment - Although unconfirmed, the evidence pointed heavily to malicious involvement in the derailment of the New York Central Railroad's crack passenger train, the 20th Century Limited, resulting in 21 deaths. 

• 1951: Huntly rail bridge bombing – a rail bridge in Huntly, New Zealand, was blown up in order to disrupt coal supplies to a nearby power station, aiding the cause of striking workers. 

• 1995: Palo Verde derailment – a train in Palo Verde, Arizona, was derailed by saboteurs shifting the rails out of position, causing one fatality. The case remains unsolved. 

• 2002: Rafiganj train wreck – a train derailed on a bridge over a river in Bihar, India, killing at least 130 people.

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