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Train wreck : the forensics of rail disasters /
- Title
- Train wreck : the forensics of rail disasters / George Bibel.
- Author
- Bibel, G. D. (George D.)
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- 355 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The railroad industry (as seen through accidents) -- How trains crash, then and now -- Moderate-speed passenger train collisions -- Freight train collisions -- Avoiding collisions -- Positive train control -- Moving at the wrong speed -- Bearing failures -- Gravity: it's the law -- More runaways: brake failure -- Broken rail -- Buckled track -- Epilogue: safety in the modern era.
- ISBN
- 9781421405902 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781421406527 (electronic)
- 1421405903 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1421406527 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2011048389
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library