Video: Train Vs. Tornado, Train Loses!

YouTube ^ | July 3, 2009

[EveningStar]

Click link for video and details. Wreck occurs at 1:10 mark.

[EveningStar]

Alternate links:

Train vs. Tornado - Spectacular!

Moving Train hit by Tornado

[freedumb2003]

God reminds us from time to time how small we really are.

If you have ever experienced a large earthquake, you know what I mean. If you haven’t then you don’t know it viscerally.

[Jeff Head]

Phenominal.

[JRios1968]

Tornado, FTW

[Vinnie]

ping for later

[Vendome]

Wow!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Don’t you know that there was some local goober telling a local “media” bobblehead that the train sounded just like a tornado.

[mowowie]

Wow

[GeronL]

that is nuts

[rlmorel]

Wow.

[listenhillary]

good one!

[Ikemeister]

Wow! That’s amazing!

[fso301]

Cool.

[NonValueAdded]

LOL

[machogirl]

Does anyone else feel like that was like watching what’s happening to our country under the dictatorship of “the One”?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

A train is, basically, just a trailer park on wheels.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It does seem that applying the brakes was mistake. I thought, though, that the freight car’s air brakes would automatically engage when they were disconnected from the train, like a semi-truck.

[al baby]

Yes Earthquakes and I have been though a few good ones lets me know I aint in charge

[mikrofon]

“More Powerful Than A Locomotive...”

[Old Professer]

Bxgb gnm.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It does seem that applying the brakes was mistake. I thought, though, that the freight car’s air brakes would automatically engage when they were disconnected from the train, like a semi-truck.

[Fester Chugabrew]

It does seem that applying the brakes was mistake.

I think the brakes will apply automatically if there is a break in the air line. But . . . yeah, this is a case where that feature may have been detrimental.

[downwdims]

They do, but it takes forever to stop. Think about the resistance of metal wheel on metal track (and the higher inertia) vs rubber on concrete

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It looked like the rear cars continued into the car with the camera. Of course the car with the camera was dragging a five car anchor, so it may have slowed a lot faster than the cars behind it, brakes notwithstanding.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

After I posted that I realized that the car with camera had a five car anchor, so it stopped much faster than the cars behind it.

Sir Topham Hatt is going to be very, very cross. You’ve caused confusion and delay! Luckly, no one was hurt.

[Bon mots]

You don’t have to watch the whole thing to get to the crash, here it is with only 5 seconds to go before the crash...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFe0846RgWc#t=1m05s

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

My favorite all time action scene from a movie is the train wreck in The Fugitive. I saw it in the theater, on a big screen. (Number 2 is the Empire State Building being blowed up in ID4, saw that in a drive-in in Maine.)

[Repeal The 17th]

Bookmark

[LiberConservative]

Holy crap!

[Popman]

Very cool.

Once saw a tornado in Texas push over a large highway sign with 12" I-Beams for poles like it was a twig.

[EveningStar]

Thanks. I didn’t know you could do that. :)

[Chief Engineer]

The video is from the “Dash Cam” of the last locomotive pulling the train.

Just before the car tipped over you can hear the escaping air from the parted brake line. The rest of the train, behind the car,soon to tipped over,was being slowed.

When the car tipped over, the couplers did not part and the locomotives were slowed much faster than with the brakes alone, having to drag the car along the ground.the rest of the train then caught up with the locomotives with the rsulting crash

It was fortunate that the tipped over car ended up as it did. It prevented the tank car from hitting the engines full on. Tank cars are to be feared!

[tang-soo]

Awesome!

[freedumb2003]

You and me both, baby...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Pardon me, monsieur, does your moonkee have a billet de chemin de fer?

[modhom]

Kids these days...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlczxXqez-Y

[grey_whiskers]

Proposed new title:

The OBAMA Economy

Cheers!