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>On October 6, 1996, a strange event occurred on the Sverdlovsk Railway: a man climbed into a TEM-2 diesel locomotive, started the engine, set the instruments to maximum tspeed and jumped off. The station attendant noticed the locomotive when it had already entered the single-track on the Sosva Novaya - Ust-Berezovka section. At this time, the driver with 30 years of experience, Parchinsky led his passenger train No. 6680 along the single-track. The train was going, towards the uncontrolled diesel locomotive. It was necessary to urgently warn the driver, and the station attendant, despite poor communication, managed to contact the driver.>The driver Parchinsky acted according to the instructions: he stopped, unhooked the cars, warned the conductors to take the passengers out. Then he had to drive the locomotive away and stop it in the path of an uncontrolled diesel locomotive and get out of the car. But ahead is an oil pipeline and a head-on collision next to it could cause a catastrophe. The driver had no right to allow this, and he felt sorry for his diesel locomotive. He decided to go towards the uncontrolled locomotive, then back up, accelerate and take the locomotive on himself, thus mitigating the impact force and speed.>Having driven 2 km away from the cars, when a locomotive moving on them appeared within sight, the assistant driver Yu. V. Zadvornykh installed a brake shoe on the rail. After that, the driver Parchinsky set the locomotive in motion in the opposite direction, picking up speed to mitigate the impact of the collision. Before the collision, the locomotive traveled back 200 meters, reaching a speed of 50 kilometers per hour. The uncontrolled diesel locomotive was moving according to the calculation at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour. As a result of the impact, all the doors in the locomotive were torn off their hinges. Parchinsky and Zadvornykh managed to jump out.1/2
