In every
city, tens of thousands of people commute to their workplace and move around in
public transport vehicles [buses and trains] – then there are – two-wheelers,
autos, share-autos, taxis, cabs, cars and more transporting people. For many,
car is a luxury.
A car
is a wheeled, self-powered motor vehicle used for transportation and a product
of the automotive industry. Cars carry mostly humans and not goods. The year 1886 is regarded as the birth year of
the modern car. In that year, German inventor Karl Benz built the Benz
Patent-Motorwagen. One of the first cars that was accessible to the masses was
the 1908 Model T, an American car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. Now in
every city, you see, so many top-end models –costly luxury cars for the rich
and famous.
While
for those using and those envying it on roads, it is the automobile that
catches the eye – there is lot more on how it reached that place. From the manufacturing facilities, cars are
transported – travelling on their own power, by specialised trucks, train
carriages, by ships too.
Train
movements in most rail systems are tightly controlled by railway signalling
systems, or signalling block system. In many railways drivers are given
instructions on speeds, and routes through the rail network. Trains
(rollingstock) can only accelerate and decelerate relatively slowly, so
stopping from anything but low speeds requires several hundred metres or even
more. The track distance required to stop is often much longer than the range
of the driver's vision. Headway is a measurement of the minimum possible
distance or time between vehicles in a transit system, without a reduction in
the speed of vehicles. The precise definition varies depending on the application,
but it is most commonly measured as the distance from the tip of one vehicle to
the tip of the next one behind it, expressed as the time it will take for the
trailing vehicle to cover that distance. A "shorter" headway
signifies a more frequent service. Freight trains might have headways measured
in parts of an hour, metro systems operate with headways on the order of 1 to 5
minutes, and vehicles on a freeway can have as little as 2 seconds headway
between them.
Bayerische
Motoren Werke AG usually known under its abbreviation BMW is a German luxury
vehicle, motorcycle, and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916.
Headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, BMW owns Mini cars and is the parent company
of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. After the end
of World War I in 1918, BMW was forced to cease aircraft-engine production by
the terms of the Versailles Armistice Treaty. The first car which BMW
successfully produced and the car which launched BMW on the road to automobile
production was the Dixi, based on the Austin 7 and licensed from the Austin
Motor Company in Birmingham, England. This
post is about a train accident in USA, in which vehicles were damaged.
A Norfolk Southern
freight train derailed northwest of Columbia on Sunday, damaging up to 120 BMW
automobiles on their way to the Port of Charleston to be shipped overseas. The derailment occurred in Blair, S.C., and
included two Norfolk Southern locomotives and 12 rail cars. Each rail car holds
10 vehicles. Norfolk Southern said in a statement that the tracks were damaged
by the derailment and are being repaired but the company is still investigating
how the derailment happened. According
to a Norfolk Southern spokeswoman, two locomotives and 12 of the 96 rail cars
went off the tracks in rural Blair shortly before 3 p.m. The cause of the
accident is being investigated. The two members of the crew were taken to a
local hospital for evaluation and released Sunday, Norfolk Southern said. There
were no injuries.
Each rail car
carries 10 BMWs, putting the total number involved in the derailment at 120
vehicles. It is stated that it was not
clear how many were damaged. The train also was transporting an additional 840
vehicles made at the Spartanburg County automotive plant. As of early Monday, Norfolk Southern had
rerailed both of the locomotives and four of the cars. The Virginia-based
company said it expected service would be restored by late Monday. No road
crossings were blocked by the derailment, but authorities said drivers should
expect delays because heavy equipment was being brought in to set the rail cars
upright and repair the tracks.
Norfolk Southern's
route from BMW's plant in Greer to the Columbus Street Terminal in Charleston
brings, on average, more than 700 vehicles for export each day. Through October,
the automaker had shipped 227,649 vehicles through the Port of Charleston this
year. The State Ports Authority is assessing what impact, if any, the
derailment will have on its operations in Charleston and at its rail-served
inland hub in Greer. The maritime
agency's vessel schedule is not affected by the accident, it is stated.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
7th Dec
2016.
PS : news
collated from various sources. Pictures
credit : www.wistv.com
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