Re: dutch drop
Tom Jones III <tomtherailnut@...>
The Dutch drop is not inherently unsafe, just a bit trickier than a simple
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drop or a kick. The trick is to keep the moving dropped car's velocity low, or perhaps have a slight grade to assist and simply let gravity move the car. Putting a brakeman on the car to help control speed (or stop the car in case of emergency) can help. All this can be achieved with a car with sufficient mass that it has high inertia, as most prototype cars have. Except for the run in I described in a much earlier post, I think the most embarassing I have actually seen in a Dutch drop situation was when the dropped car had only enough energy to drive it to the center of the switch - trapping the locomotive on the spur and the car spanning the points, no poling pole. Whoops. The crew ended up pushing the offending car out of the way with a Jeep from a nearby grain elevator. Tom Jones
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Subject: Re: [STMFC] dutch drop Snip) The fact that the move is obviously dangerous and can go
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