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- The Red Line crash is still dominating the local headlines: WJLA is reporting that Metro GM John Catoe has rejected Jim Graham's proposal to move ahead with scrapping all of Metro's older, 1000-series rail cars, instead focusing on moving them to the middle of the trains.
- A memorial service is set for tonight at the D.C. National Guard Armory for retired Maj. Gen. David F. Wherley Jr. and Ann Wherley, the married couple who died in last week's Metro crash.
- ICYMI: Don't neglect to read Eli Saslow's detailed timeline of the Red Line crash in the Post.
- In non-Metro crash news, PoP reports that City Vista in the Mt. Vernon Triangle neighborhood will be getting a Taylor's Deli location.
- The Heights Life notes that Michelle Obama was in Columbia Heights today. "The First Lady was at the Upper Cardozo Health Center this afternoon to announce $851 million in recovery grants for community health centers."
- PQ Living says several SCOTUS justices recently popped into authentic Chinatown eatery Full Kee.
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Cool pic ;-)
Okay, so the 1000 Metro cars are in the middle of the train, right?
Now, what happens to the middle of the train in a crash?
The idea is that the sturdier trains on the end will absorb enough of the impact that the center trains won't buckle.
Science!
But if you put a sturdier train at the front of the crash, that train isn't going to absorb anything. It will just transfer the energy to the rest of the train. It's like with the old time cars that were built on a solid frame: the car almost always survived crashes relatively intact, but the energy of the crash was transferred to the occupants. Once you started having unibody construction with crumple zones, the car would absorb all the energy instead of the occupants. Just look at old pictures of locomotive crashes: the engine car at the front is the strongest car in the train. It's always intact in the crash but everything behind it telescopes.
She blinded me with science! And hit me with technology.
Good heavens Miss Sakamoto! You're beautiful!
Yeah, just like in the movie Hancock.
that is fabulous...hope Don Meredith is smiling at the paraphrasing of one of his fave quotes.
"Photo by _______________?"
Is this a multiple choice question?
Deep must be in a funk because Mama CHUD Chinatown Sue was busy with someone elses scotus.
Deep must be in a funk because Mama CHUD Chinatown Sue was busy with someone elses scotus.
In non-Metro crash news, PoP reports that City Vista in the Mt. Vernon Triangle neighborhood will be getting a Taylor's Deli location.
Cool!
I wonder if they'll answer the phone at the new location, or if it'll just ring and ring when you're trying to order, like it does on H Street.