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title: "Train Wreck: The Forensics of Rail Disasters"
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# Train Wreck: The Forensics of Rail Disasters

**Brand:** george bibel
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- **What is this?** Train Wreck: The Forensics of Rail Disasters by george bibel
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Train Wreck: The Forensics of Rail Disasters

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Nice, Fairly Entertaining Treatment of a Scary Subject
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2013*

This is a good popularization of a technical subject.  The author tries to make it entertaining and open to those with only a high school knowledge of physics, and generally succeeds up to about 3/4 of the way through the book.  There it bogs down just a bit on rail cracks and thermal expansion, but picks up again toward the end.  Organized by cause of accident and no more grisly than necessary.Would not recommend this to everyone (particularly those who ride the D.C. subway a lot), but to non-engineers (civil or locomotive) it's an interesting read.  The diagrams showed up very well on my Kindle Keyboard, tables less so (but they're not really needed since the author summarized them in the text).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great for Train Enthusiasts - and Educational Too !
  

*by S***K on Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2012*

Train Wreck discusses how trains operate and what happens when things go wrong.  And things can go very wrong.  For example if there are too many locomotives at the head of the line, then it's more likely to break a coupling, buckle the train off the tracks due to concentrated head-end braking, or derail the train on a curve due to string-lining (hah - you have to read the book to learn about string-lining).Train Wreck interjects pertinent train history in context, especially when explaining current train procedures.  You get to learn all about air brakes (still used since they were invented by Westinghouse in the 1870's) and the critical role of bearings (and how they break), as well as train runaways and what happens when a train encounters a broken track.The author uses just a few equations from high school physics, but strives to explain the underlying concepts to get the point across for the math phobics.  I enjoyed this book because it works hard to actually explain the reality of trains - when they work and when they fail.  This book would make a great gift for a budding young engineer, train enthusiast, or anyone who ever wondered why a train wreck happens.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    How the Railroad works.
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2014*

Was an easy read.  The rail disasters presented provided one with a historical perspective that was valuable in its own right.  One also obtained interesting information about how our railroad system operates currently.  For example, did you know that mechanical computers were still in use in 2005 to direct switching operations?  These mechanical computers were first introduced in the late 1800's.  This book also describes how the famous "fail-safe" Westinghouse air-brakes work, which to my surprise, aren't so fail-safe.This book also gives one actual applications of Newton's laws of motion (sometimes the applications are a bit redundant), and should be of interest to any student, who would want to know how physics is applied to real-world problems.

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