WCGW if a locomotive engineer ignores the wheel slip indicator?

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TickingTimeBum on December 1st, 2019 at 01:16 UTC »

So the wheels can spin and create enough heat to melt the rails? Is that what happened here?

Karrtlops on December 1st, 2019 at 01:52 UTC »

This post and thread turned out to be interesting af

Marmite-n-Toast on December 1st, 2019 at 02:02 UTC »

Eli5? What's a wheel slip indicator? And how does that happen???