Cars do not have 10 carts attached to it. A truck would flip over. Centrifugal force yo.
You know I was really hoping saying "the operative word being similar" would save me from having to read this out to you, but I guess it was a bit of a stretch in the first place.
How do you think something like
this navigates sharp bends found on roads? It's a really easy concept. You literally just slow down. A car can't take a left turn at a 4 way intersection if it's going over 200mph, but at 15mph it's pie. A train isn't just going to suddenly tip over just because a corner is too sharp. It'll tip over if it's taking the corner at too high of a speed with enough energy to derail the train. This brings us back to the article I linked earlier. The minimum railway curve radius isn't as much of a problem with radius as it is with the logical speed the train will be traveling at, paired with it's weight and length.
Theoretically, a train could take any corner that was wide enough for it's trucks to fit on. But it's not logical to have a train slow down to like 0.5mph to take a turn. While the track in question is probably a relatively sharp turn, I guarantee you it's by no means impossible. Probably requires like, a 5 second speed reduction.
Yes because we have a few engineers among us.
It doesn't take an engineer to answer this question. It's like a step above common knowledge.
