ive been reading about the new metrolink cars. theres so much buzz about them resisting crashes with crumple zones, shock absorbing couplers, etc but has hyundai rotem actually crash tested these like in cars or do train cars dont need to be tested this way? seems like smashing into a car at a grade crossing would be fine but what about another head on with a locomotive such as in previous metrolink mishaps?
This is the car where most of the people died at Glendale. Note the signal tower on top of the car. The new safety platforms acted as teeth when the tower fell around the car, tearing open the side of the coach. Very few fatalities in the other coaches, where the old crash impact zones worked as planned. Since OSHA and the FRA forced the new towers, this odd fact was left out of the investigation. How odd...
Huh? Are you even looking at the same picture? This car wasn't even thought of during the Glendale accident, it was designed in response to the Chatsworth accident in 2008 where there was a collision with a UP freight. This is Metrolink's first non-Bombardier car (not counting the Pullman-Standard Comet cars leased from Utah's UTA). Signal tower? That's a light tower in the background. The photo was taken at the San Bernardino station, the BNSF yard is in the background. There is a difference between crash-resistant and crash-proof (Which doesn't exist).
signal tower on top of the car? really? I think most of us here would see it as something in the background...
For anyone else confused by Tony's post, he is not refering to the picture posted by b-16707 by instead to a picture that he posted but for some reason is not showing up. Here is the picture he is refering to:
I think that the moderators should move this posting to another more appropriate grouping - it has nothing at all to do with N Scale model railroading.
