1 Train Collision 1/4/24

It's possible to pull a brake cord violently enough to break the valve and make it impossible to reset. You have to exert a reasonable amount of downward force to pull it to begin with, but don't underestimate the strength of the crackheads and EDPs they got running around the system.

Pulling the cord on those trains dumps the air instantaneously. On the newer stuff if a cord is pulled in the passenger compartment, the train has to be within 600 feet of a station or it won't dump until the doors open at the next station. Vandals love pulling cords when the train berths in the station and run off.

GirlOnTheTrain wrote:It's possible to pull a brake cord violently enough to break the valve and make it impossible to reset. You have to exert a reasonable amount of downward force to pull it to begin with, but don't underestimate the strength of the crackheads and EDPs they got running around the system..

That would suggest the valves are plastic rather than metal?

Nope, they are in fact metal.

GirlOnTheTrain wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 4:49 pm It's possible to pull a brake cord violently enough to break the valve and make it impossible to reset. You have to exert a reasonable amount of downward force to pull it to begin with, but don't underestimate the strength of the crackheads and EDPs they got running around the system.

Pulling the cord on those trains dumps the air instantaneously. On the newer stuff if a cord is pulled in the passenger compartment, the train has to be within 600 feet of a station or it won't dump until the doors open at the next station. Vandals love pulling cords when the train berths in the station and run off.

Aren't these trains equipped with 'angle cocks' or like mechanisms allowing the brakes on individual cars to be cut out without affecting nearby ones?