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As for Amtrak, my impression is, in most of these incidents where there was obvious negligence and someone -- an employee, a passenger, a bystander -- was killed or seriously injured, Amtrak does not normally contest the claim and usually settles out of court. I can't remember many of these cases g...

Big jacks and/or a large crane to pick it up so they can slide the broken out out and slide a new one in. Here are some airbags that lift 112 tons each up to 20" in the air (for the V102 bags): http://www.vetter-rescue.com/lifting-bags.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false...

You can see from the rig, they were using dump trucks for braking control ... the load was too much for mere regular trucks. Minor point of correction, they were using 2 and 3 axle semi tractors with weights on them, not dump trucks. The front truck had a weight box on the trailer frame above the 5...