Trains being blown off the tracks tonight


Interesting and terrible. The entire reason this happened is because they are husky stack cars or well cars with double-stacked containers in them. These cars by nature are extremely top heavy and are prone to falling over when loaded. The wind just gave them a push. The solution is to have double the cars with 1 container in each car instead of 2. (Only if ALL the containers were 53ft long, otherwise 2 on one "level".) The locomotive wouldn't be pushed let a lone move, even if it was in a Catagory 1 or 2 tornado. I don't know about higher than that.
 
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