Train Burnout

"Racescort666" (Racescort666) 02/28/2014 at 15:11 • Filed to: Trainlopnik, burnout, awesome

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I was looking for a picture of a food truck doing a burnout, don't ask, and I came across !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! According to the post, one of the power units of a locomotive didn't get the signal to stop while the rest of the train cars applied the brakes. The result is an obviously very destructive burnout. If anyone wants to share how they might fix this feel free.

dogisbadob > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:14

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penny goes here :p

Arben72 > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:15

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They cut it and use thermite to weld in new rails. Google thermite welding.

Cherry_man1 > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:15

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Section out teh track and put in new rails

Party-vi > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:15

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That's really damn cool.

Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:16

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Probably just replace the section of rail.

The rails are 10-20 feet long if I had to guess.

Racescort666 > Arben72 02/28/2014 at 15:17

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That's what I figured. Would the locomotive be able to drive off of that?

MonkeePuzzle > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:17

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yamahog > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:18

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Wouldn't they cut out that section of the track and replace it? For some reason that is striking me as the correct method.

Racescort666 > MonkeePuzzle 02/28/2014 at 15:19

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Haha!

Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:19

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Rock it out like a car in a snow bank xD
Or run power on the other engines as well

Rainbow > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:19

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Arben72 > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:20

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My bet is they detached everything and had another train pull it out that way it wouldn't derail or at least minimize damage.

Racescort666 > Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT 02/28/2014 at 15:20

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That would probably work. The wheels are probably damaged enough to where they need to be replaced anyway, how much more harm could you do?

Straightsix9904 > Arben72 02/28/2014 at 15:22

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When I worked on a road crew I played with thermite a couple times. That stuff is SOOO powerful. It is crazy. It burned a hole through about 8" of asphalt.

Nick, Drives a Cobalt LT > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:23

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Precisely ahah

They can always detach that car, and pick it up with a crane to take it away, I've seen that done.

Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:24

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This might help your search:

Slave2anMG > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:33

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Doubt it. I suspect they'll treat it like a derailment and use a crane to lift it up and over the damaged places (there will be more than one) and probably replace the wheels and traction motors with 'dummy' axles right there on the spot, then haul the engine to the shop where they'll fit new traction motors and wheels.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:37

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Surprisingly, this most likely would not derail a train. Would it be uncomfortable? Probably. But there was a video posted somewhere a month ago that was from early WWII ( I believe) where it was being investigated how much track damage would be required to derail a train. At speed, they couldn't get the train to derail without a two foot section of missing track .

Racescort666 > Slave2anMG 02/28/2014 at 15:38

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Thank you, I was hoping that someone would leave a fairly detailed description.

McLarry > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:39

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I'm floored....I had no idea this ever happened. I can't imagine there's any way to actually fix that besides replacing the rail sections.

I'm not sure why, but I'm ridiculously impressed by this.

Racescort666 > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To 02/28/2014 at 15:40

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Cool. Well, derailment isn't really that cool but testing certainly is.

JEM > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:45

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That'll totally buff out.

Ntovorni > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 15:49

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I'd take a section of it for art.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 16:03

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As people have probably said they would cut out the damaged section of track and thermite weld new sections back in. There was a post on here a long time ago about that. Here is the video that I'm pretty sure was posted then. Thermite welding is a pretty cool process.

JeffFurbs > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 02/28/2014 at 17:16

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Too cool. Thanks for sharing that. I did not know that was a thing. Well I don't know a lot of things but certainly not that.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Racescort666 02/28/2014 at 22:20

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