Hey Matt, don't do this.
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The owner of one of the companies that I used to drive for sent this out on the morning on the incident:
"Be very careful when crossing humps... Go slowly and when you start to hear a scrape stop and get all out and back up."
I think that is sound advice. BTW, I am amazed that the limo stayed square with the locomotive. I am also amazed that the person that was trying to flag the engineer down was so close to the crossing. He should have been about a mile or more up stream of the crossing. After all, it is not like one can stop 10,000 tons on a dime. Just like one cannot stop a stretch limo with eight passengers in it on a dime.
It is a simple fact of physics. When one doubles speed one has to double braking power (or distance). When one doubles weight (mass) one has to quadruple braking power (distance). To stop a train with 10,000 tons will take almost two miles.
I hope that I never have to eat these words: "Don't worry, I will never do that"
"Be very careful when crossing humps... Go slowly and when you start to hear a scrape stop and get all out and back up."
I think that is sound advice. BTW, I am amazed that the limo stayed square with the locomotive. I am also amazed that the person that was trying to flag the engineer down was so close to the crossing. He should have been about a mile or more up stream of the crossing. After all, it is not like one can stop 10,000 tons on a dime. Just like one cannot stop a stretch limo with eight passengers in it on a dime.
It is a simple fact of physics. When one doubles speed one has to double braking power (or distance). When one doubles weight (mass) one has to quadruple braking power (distance). To stop a train with 10,000 tons will take almost two miles.
I hope that I never have to eat these words: "Don't worry, I will never do that"
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