At 09:11 AM 10/14/99 +1000, you wrote:
Well, I didn't mean that we would stop SO quickly as to propel the crew
through bulkheads! I was thinking that there is now a maximum of about 1G
of breaking power (due to relying on friction). With the rocket, you could
achieve 5G without injury to people (provided they braced themselves).

Also, Mark's idea sounds good: distribute the rockets to make the force
more even.

I can see many problems with it, too (mostly financial and things like
"When do I push the emergency rocket button?"<G>) BUT, I just always
wondered why I had never seen it suggested at all. Surprising, considering
all the other wacko ideas that get tossed around.

Sean

>HUMM,
>Would this device be at the front or the rear of the train?
>
>Lets see at the front.
>KABOOM rocet fires, driver is thrown back, through the bulkhead an onto the
>diesel, where he obtains 2nd and third degree burns. The train was
>travelling at 50MPH, with the front on a flat and the rear coming down a
>hill. The engine starts to shove other carrages back, the resulting
>intertia casues the carrages to de-rail, these lay accross the tracks
>infront of a high speed intercirty express carrying 2000 passanges, losts
>of dead people = states greatest rail disarster.
>
>On the rear of the train.
>The train is long, and has come over the crest of a hill (1/2 the train on
>each side). The emergency brakes and firing of the rocket causes the train
>to break apart of the the crest (This happens now, with incorrect breaing
>on trains 1 mile long (We run the longest trains in the world here in
>Western Australia, at Mount Tom Price). The back part of the train takes
>off in the oppersite direction and slams into a stationary train waiting at
>the previous signal block, more people dead.
>Meanwhile at the front of the broken train, the driver has been slung up
>against the screen during the jolt that occured while the slack was being
>taken up.
>
>All nasty
>
>
>Dennis
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>>Sean
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