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National Geographic channel has a show on called Seconds from Disaster and the episode is about the Sunset Limited crash in 1993. They have also run one about the ICE crash in Germany. When they showed the wheel rim going through the floor it looked like a snakehead.
Riding on Supertrain.
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LAST EDITED ON Mar-02-05 AT 06:26 PM (EST)
A Snakehead?...Oh. Arent those highly rare now?...I remember them only happening when they used narrow strip rail with a wooden inlaid brace.Its funny, people think trains have come such along way along the path of evolution, but the tracks have changed alot too.First, instead of the wheels having flanges, the wheels were flat, and the tracks had a big flange on the inside.
Fish belly rail...oh that was horrid..
the wooden inlay style...
then there was another type that i do not remember, i think maybe it was the same as the wooden inlay, but used all metal. That was even worse.Then they came to the two rail idea.Im interested to see if this was a snakehead you saw.
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No it wasn't. It was the rim of the wheel coming off do to metal Fatigue. It came up in front a seat and just stayed there. A snakehead would have gone through the rest of the train.
Riding on Supertrain.
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