[PRCo] Re: #1727 Accident

[Fred Schneider]

He became somewhat of a hero in the press.  But he ran a car all the way in
without brakes ... rolling past stop after stop and didn't have a clue that
the dynamics were not functioning!  He was a relatively new man which may
say something for the quality of the training.   Question #2 ... because the
track brakes will stop a car almost as fast as dynamics (dynamics are 4.75
mphps and the total with track brakes is 9 mphps, were they also not
functioning?  And who was the idiot who decided that the derail at South
Hills Junction ... put there after previous run aways ... should be
removed?  I'm not sure anyone should have any awards in that fiasco unless
it should be a collective Darwin honorable mention.

"Dietrich, Robert J." wrote:

> Wasn't this the accident that started at the "top" of the tunnel - the
> car had no brakes.  The motorman became somewhat of a hero by getting
> all the passenger in the rear of the car and braced for a collision.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
> James B. Holland
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 5:40 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: #1727 Accident
>
> No, it was:
>
>           '''New wheels, motor leads not secured on truck, motor leads
> drag and short out wiping out dynamics.'''
>
> Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 10 May 2004 macmarka at netzero.net wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> Anyone remember this? Anything to do with loss of brakes? It is dated
> >>10/28/87. Any injuries occur?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >That was the "new trucks, brakes not set up properly" accident, yes?
> >I started high school in fall 1987, and I only started riding the rail
> >system around then.
> >
> >No fatalities.
> >