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derail Chiefly US a device designed to make rolling stock or locomotives leave the rails to avoid a collision or accident derail [dē′rāl] (engineering) To cause a railroad car or engine to run off the rails. A device to guide railway cars or engines off the tracks to avoid collision or other accident. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Transportation officials said they believe it will prevent passenger injuries and reduce derailments. In an era generations gone by, a group of Irish coal miners were dubbed the "Molly Maguires", and labeled "Red-Handed Murderers" by the press for their alleged role in bombings, assassinations, train derailments, arson, and street demonstrations that rocked Pennsylvania coal territory. Metro ignored the advice of an independent task force that concluded private businesses repaired the escalators faster and at a lower cost than agency employees, and the system's own safety specialists have regularly complained their warnings went unheeded in cases where they could have prevented derailments, fires, split tracks, and injured passengers. |
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