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Ted Hikel posted:
With only three units worth of dynamic breaking coming down Kicking Horse Pass if you lose the air and accelerate to 5-10 MPH you ARE going to continue accelerating and derail before you make it to the bottom of the grade.

It's not the air that you are likely to lose.  If one dynamic brake quits, a third of the dynamic braking effort is gone.  The Engineer had better be watching everything and have a plan for such an event.

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