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An example might be railroads putting a derailer at the bottom of a hill to protect industry or businesses. The derailer is removed when servicing the line, but put back to protect the end of the line industry from run-away cars. Conclusion: they'd rather have run-away cars de-rail and have to recover them, then letting them damage a factory or business.


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