Railway workers solve the Trolley Problem:
"'Slip the switch' by flipping it while the trolley’s front wheels have passed through, but before the back wheels do. This will cause a controlled derailment, bringing the trolley to a safe halt."
Some great comments in the original post:
"In case anyone is wondering: yes, this is how train robberies operated in the Old West. Slip the switch after the locomotive passes by, passenger cars are stuck there. They could rob everyone and get away before the locomotive could even stop and reverse back to the passenger cars.""And in case you were also wondering: yes, this tactic is still used by people stealing UPS packages from trains in various American cities today.""This actually comes from railroad workers talking in comments on a fb [Facebook] group. I just made the meme for them. They were like 'those trolley memes are stupid, we have to do this in our railyard like once a week when some intermodal runs loose.'"
