Train vs Tornado

[ozark]

Train Vs.Tornado

youtube link deleted - please see koondawg's post for the video link

 

[crman123]

OH man, I just watched this video myself, its incredible what happened! Tornado 1, Train 0....for now, lol
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[Rusty1955]

That would do it!! Good post!

 

[Koondawg]

Watch the trees start to blow over when the rain comes...this was amazing footage and I wouldn't have wanted to be along for the ride.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=82d_1246651100

 

[jeffmorris]

I watched two-part "Impact" TV movie. There was a "flying" passenger train and a huge cargo ship was lifted off the ocean.

 

[transitguard]

need to fill space

 

[traincrazy0918]

Oh, god, hope the engineer was ok... That was really scary, especially the gas car and grain hopper sliding toward the locomotive. I thought it would be destroyed, or knocked off. Was the camera on a helper or was the unit running long hood forward? What railroad was this?

EDIT: Lucky he backed up and missed the grain car that swung around, could have knocked him off....

 

[cascaderailroad]

Oh My...that was the most spectacularly scary footage that I have ever seen...that sparking tank car sliding rigiht for the locomotive cab...an engineers nightmare indeed

 

[applegathc]

Oh, god, hope the engineer was ok... That was really scary, especially the gas car and grain hopper sliding toward the locomotive. I thought it would be destroyed, or knocked off. Was the camera on a helper or was the unit running long hood forward? What railroad was this?

By the colour of the hood, looks like UP and no. There is a camera in every locomotive that records video for investigation purposes.

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[traincrazy0918]

By the colour of the hood, looks like UP and no. There is a camera in every locomotive that records video for investigation purposes.

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Oh, i see now... Thanks! I wonder how long ago that was?

 

[S301]

Was curious about this, so dug through the comments (not recommended...), and found that this happened on January 2008 in the town of Lawrence, IL. A google search turned up the following:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lot/?n=20080107tor
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lot/?n=20080107tor#pns


Zec

 

[007007]

That was really scary, especially the gas car

Why do people think that just because it is a tank car it is carrying gasoline or something flammable/explosive?

 

[deeelare]

The guys in the engine must have said a little prayer when they saw that tanker heading toward them at a fairly good speed ?

Thanks for the link --- ,DLR

 

[gp792]

Locomotive wins... I think so

Looks like the tornado wasn't strong enough to knock over the locomotive.

 

[Euphod]

Terrifying footage!

 

[JimDep]

Wow! That's an awesome video Koondawg. Scary


I was looking through the Nation Weather Service report summary for that incident and pulled out this paragraph:

THE TORNADO THEN MOVED ACROSS THE CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILROAD WHERE IT BLEW 12 RAILROAD FREIGHT CARS OFF THE TRACK. THE TRAIN WAS MOVING AT THE TIME THE TORNADO HIT IT...SO AS THE MAIN ENGINE STOPPED...THE REMAINING CARS ON THE TRACK CONTINUED ALONG IT AND SLAMMED INTO THE FRONT PART OF THE TRAIN. THIS CAUSED A FEW MORE CARS TO DERAIL...INCLUDING ONE CONTAINING HAZARDOUS MATERIALS THAT CAUSED THE EVACUATION OF THE TOWN OF LAWRENCE. THE DAMAGE IN LAWRENCE WAS RATED AS EF2 WITH WINDS UP TO 110 MPH.


It could be that the sparking tanker that crashed and derailed was carrying "hazardous materials" causing the town to evacuate. I'm glad that it wasn't worse that what is was.

 

[Euphod]

Better than the Utube version!

 

[sethmcs]

Tornado 1
Train 0

Final score.:hehe:

 

[sethmcs]

Tornado 1
Train 0

Final Score.:hehe:

 

[whistlehead]

But the loco didn't derail, so it's a tie...