What happens if you throw a scrap the toilet train at full speed Bashny.Net

This question was asked by many. At first, we are in the company of a friend of the railroad Eugene Bargin fairy stories about it and laughed during the feast. But then someone received a reproach for his unscientific approach of the railway to this issue, and demanded proof that will actually happen.

Then, we went to sidetracks. At the fork in the Snag we chose a suitable site for overclocking. The object of the tests was the old compartment car, which we put to equally antique shunting diesel locomotive.

The driver Stepanenko took a seat in the cab of the locomotive, and I Barulinym and sat in the toilet of a wagon. Advance were prepared with a piece of pipe, a handle of a shovel and, of course, scrap.









Raphael Stepanenko started the engine. The composition was broken, suscribe slip disks. When the locomotive speed has reached 70 km/h, Eugene, dropped in the toilet the handle of the shovel and pressed the accelerator pedal.

There was a crack and the rumble under the floor and then all was quiet.

I came out of the bathroom and stopped in the doorway of one of the compartments. The conductor put a crowbar in the toilet, went to the toilet door and hit the pedal with a piece of pipe...

There was a lot of thunder, as if several cars collided at high speed at the same time. The car started to shake, to swing, the floors creaked, everything rattled and vibrated. Screamed the brake pads, and composition began to stop.

After inspecting the toilet, we saw that the toilet seat cracked, mounting tabs broken, the rest turned bolts.

The most interesting thing we found when he got out of the car. One of the wheels on the rear of the platform is deformed, the second did not have in place, stuck just dangling the alternator belt.









Some concrete sleepers have the rails on the side where we drove the deformed wheel, resembled a giant file all the notches and potholes. Scrap, by the way, was never found.



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