[USMA:23944] Pound-Force discussion on another list

[CarletonM]

A few days ago I asked for help with tractive effort from locomotives, and buff strength of the ends of passenger rail cars, both being expressed in pounds.  I received some very helpful information about pound-force and newtons and wrote a reply to the railroad list to which I also subscribe.  This started a low-key but interesting dialogue, in which one person mentioned the "slug".  The discussion concluded with a fellow from Toronto (an expatriate from Los Angeles) writing:

"I really think this list has heard enough about the discredited
English Imperial units of measurement.  If All Aboard is to be
taken seriously, it's long since time for everyone to go metric,
as every country with a competent passenger rail system has
already done."

There is more support out there among the people than the politicans would have us think.

Carleton

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I really think this list has heard enough about the discredited
English Imperial units of measurement.  If All Aboard is to be
taken seriously, it's long since time for everyone to go metric,
as every country with a competent passenger rail system has
already done.

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
(Warning to the humour-impaired: this message may contain traces
of irony.)

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