Train Running Through A Tornado!!!

[ktlight]

Here is something you do not see too often.

This video came from a fellow who works for the RR as a train dispatcher.

Trains nowadays mount cameras in their cabs, facing forward and backward, the same way police cars do.

This video is a rear view camera. This is video of a train that ran through a tornado..
First there is the normal rear view from the last of three engines, with the trees looking normal.
Then you begin to see rain, and then, halfway through the video the trees begin to sway violently and then


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbnwffeEH1M

[g.k.r]

wow thats destructive and to move that weight too

[linz2d]

Well that's something you don't see everyday.

[Metaphor]

Is it just me who thinks that this is a great metaphor for the times we live in and how OUR journey is now. I´d say we are a few seconds into the tornado then, going steadily into the eye of the storm, and soon our train (the system) will crash.

[Fred259]

Interesting ktlight, I don’t know where you get them!

We can never underestimate the power of the weather. I was explaining on another thread about cumulonimbus clouds which of course is what Tornados essentially are. In the thread I said that around 50,000 tons of water was contained in these clouds. However I made a mistake its actually 500,000,tons. Quite extraordinary…

This is what 500,000 tons looks like.




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VLCC Knock Nevis

[Rocky_Shorz]

imagine sitting and watching that Gas container rolling at you at 60 MPH...

incredible footage...

[Siberia9]

Man I wanted to jump out of my chair when I saw that tanker come'n, good one.

[firstlook]

So if the conductor didn't stop then the trailer that got knocked off the track would have pulled him off too?

I only ask because I wonder why he would stop so abruptly and allow the other trailer cars to crash like that. Was he trying to make sure they wouldn't keep going?

[Rainbow44]

Wow!! That was great footage............thanks for sharing!!

[Robstar]

So if the conductor didn't stop then the trailer that got knocked off the track would have pulled him off too?

I only ask because I wonder why he would stop so abruptly and allow the other trailer cars to crash like that. Was he trying to make sure they wouldn't keep going?

It is a safety mechanism that stops the engine. All the cars are connected to the engines so if there is derailed car like in this case the engines breaks automatically go off to prevent further damage. You can hear the air brakes go off right before you see the rail cars roll. This is an old video but a good one.

[firstlook]

So if the conductor didn't stop then the trailer that got knocked off the track would have pulled him off too?

I only ask because I wonder why he would stop so abruptly and allow the other trailer cars to crash like that. Was he trying to make sure they wouldn't keep going?

It is a safety mechanism that stops the engine. All the cars are connected to the engines so if there is derailed car like in this case the engines breaks automatically go off to prevent further damage. You can hear the air brakes go off right before you see the rail cars roll. This is an old video but a good one.

I understand now. Thanks. :)