Train Tanker Car
OK I have a serious question about trains.?
Today we we're driving along and we came to a train intersection and there was a train going across the road on the tracks, the kinds of cars the train was hauling was tankers, for diesel or oil or whatever. And it stopped for a few minutes. And when it moved there was a sort of domino effect, like one car would move at a time and when it did that there was like an awesome booming noise as each car would move from left to right, i don't know what you call that sound when that happens but i want to know.
The movement from car to car is referred to as "slack", I dont know if there is a specific word for the booming sounds, it is quite pronounced if the cars are empty so that they echo and boom.
Depending on the method of operation at the time a train stops the slack will either be stretched so the entire train starts all at once or as you observed it can be bunched and each car starts out individually yanking the car behind it.
When possible, many engineers try to start their trains in a slack stretched condition so the train starts more or less at once without the jerking associated in slack bunched starts.
As you may imagine, if an engineer is not very careful starting a train, the slack action from car to car can easily break a coupler between cars.
Added: Ha, David yes you are right, except where I work we usually have two promoted engineers on a train so we have a "you break it, you fix it" rule.
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