Interesting...For discussion's sake lets say a hose bag lets go 250 cars from the engine on this 268 ore train with a one man crew,(as tom mentioned driver). (PS I have no idea of tonnage of the train except it must have happen on a down grade.
How would you go about fixing the problem?
Would you not need air flowing through the train line to find the leak? The train is now stopped in emergency.
Does the Driver have to tie on about 30 0r 40 handbrakes before he can recover the air and then walk the train to find and change the hose bag .???Once the hose bag is changed what's the next move?? If he reconnects the hose bag to the rear of the train the brakes on the whole train are going to charge up and release. The Driver is still back 200 cars from the engine.... Comments??
