You could probably build a better “media bias detector” than all the lib bullshit projects just by recording what things get passive voice applied to them.
Wording aside, how does a train get derailed by a car? A car would be - what - a tonne? A single coach of a train would be 10-20 tonnes.
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What Barabas said
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You only need to derail ONE of the bogies/wheel sets of only one of the wagons for the train to be “derailed”. (After one bogie derails, if the train keeps moving, the whole thing will get fucked up). Bogies are usually in the ends of wagons, far from the centre of mass, so if you hit them with a car you have a lot of leverage to displace them.
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Trains can be intentionally derailed by the pilot as an emergency break, which makes sense if you don’t have enough space for breaking conventionally and (you calculate) the thing you’ll hit won’t get out of the way on time.
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The state of the rails can be really bad, which also helps derailments
You only need to derail ONE of the bogies/wheel sets of only one of the wagons for the train to be “derailed”.
Yes, it looks like the train in the image jack-knifed, suggesting it probably isn’t articulated. So the affected coach can be pushed off by itself, rather than being stabilised by the weight of the rest of the train.
I agree that cars get given cop voice, but this particular example I’m not sure how you could reword that sentence. I think I would say “train derails after striking x” regardless of what the object was.
Train derails after striking cow escaped from pasture. Train derails after striking fallen log.
Active voice first.
“A car on the train tracks caused an East LA Metro train to derail”
A Metro Rail train has derailed after striking a vehicle in East L.A.
yeah man, i’m sure the rail car just went out of its way to strike the car
How dare that train drive on its tracks at a regular speed and route? Thousands and thousands of individual drivers of varying degrees of intelligence and impulse control can’t handle this level of chaos!
