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murd0c 07-09-2009 04:51 PM
Train vs Tornado
 
Just found this on youtube......Hard to belive sometimes what mother nature can do :eek:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azV5b...ture=topvideos

static 07-09-2009 05:09 PM
i was expecting a large explosion after the tanker collided, glad it didn't happen.

Eatman 07-09-2009 05:27 PM
skip to 1:10 of the video if you don't want to wait.

Bouncing Bettys 07-09-2009 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Eatman (Post 6501544)
skip to 1:10 of the video if you don't want to wait.
why skip? i thought it was interesting to see the weather in the background rapidly deteriorate

slammer111 07-09-2009 06:05 PM
Amazingly the camera didn't get destroyed by a flying piece of debris. WOW.

asian_speedster 07-09-2009 08:12 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by static (Post 6501522)
i was expecting a large explosion after the tanker collided, glad it didn't happen.
That would have been epic

Didnt look like anything was wrong until all the cars fell over...

you 07-09-2009 08:15 PM
that was gay i actually thought the train would fly up in the air

JHuJHu 07-09-2009 09:05 PM
^ LOL i was totally expecting that too. Like it would get caught in the tornado and spin the train round and round.

124Y 07-09-2009 09:33 PM
^Great minds think alike!
I was expecting that too!

TekDragon 07-09-2009 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by you (Post 6501788)
that was gay i actually thought the train would fly up in the air
What happened is that as soon as the air brakes (from car to car) were separated by the train derailing, the train entered what is known as emergency. Emergency is air brakes, on full.

Because of the lighter mass of the engine and cars up front, it stops right away, the rest of the train has a much greater mass and plowed on through even with full brakes. Lucky that it was a light tap and not worse.

jlenko 07-10-2009 09:39 AM
That is an old video... happened on the Harvard sub, Illinois in January 2008. Google 'Tornado derailment harvard sub -video' if you want some pictures and information about it.


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Originally Posted by TekDragon (Post 6502090)
the lighter mass of the engine
Uhh... I wouldn't call 200 tons "light" in any context. The first 5 or 7 cars that toppled over were apparently filled with car parts... perhaps somewhat lighter than the tanker, but not by much. I think the problem was the tornado knocked them off the rails first (which judging by the sound of the emergency brake application, the breaking of the trainline was what caused it... not the engineer dumping it...)

The issue is the tank car is sliding... the wheels aren't actually on the rails anymore, and therefore there are no brakes with which to stop.

InvisibleSoul 07-10-2009 11:21 AM
Anxious moments when the tanker car was coming up... and even though it looks like it's travelling so slowly, that thing ain't stopping! It's got a hell of a lot of momentum to keep driving it forward...

!Aznboi128 07-10-2009 11:58 AM
wow..... nature

q0192837465 07-10-2009 12:17 PM
u never mess w/ mother nature yo

TekDragon 07-10-2009 03:45 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by jlenko (Post 6502470)
That is an old video... happened on the Harvard sub, Illinois in January 2008. Google 'Tornado derailment harvard sub -video' if you want some pictures and information about it.




Uhh... I wouldn't call 200 tons "light" in any context. The first 5 or 7 cars that toppled over were apparently filled with car parts... perhaps somewhat lighter than the tanker, but not by much. I think the problem was the tornado knocked them off the rails first (which judging by the sound of the emergency brake application, the breaking of the trainline was what caused it... not the engineer dumping it...)

The issue is the tank car is sliding... the wheels aren't actually on the rails anymore, and therefore there are no brakes with which to stop.


I never said the engineer dumped his air. I'm stipulating that air was lost during the derailment when the hoses separated. By lighter mass, I meant the tanker and all of the cars behind it.

Gh0stRider 07-10-2009 04:36 PM
thats it?

shenmecar 07-10-2009 05:04 PM
thats pretty cool

liu13 07-10-2009 05:39 PM
nicee, surprised no explosions

thumper 07-10-2009 06:46 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by static (Post 6501522)
i was expecting a large explosion after the tanker collided, glad it didn't happen.
they should have hired michael bay to produce this short! :D

RRxtar 07-10-2009 07:05 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by thumper (Post 6503069)
they should have hired michael bay to produce this short! :D
haha!

PiuYi 07-11-2009 03:12 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.Campo (Post 6501860)
^ LOL i was totally expecting that too. Like it would get caught in the tornado and spin the train round and round.
.... You spin my head right round, right round, When you go down, when you go down down..... :spin:

ya i was expecting it too

StylinRed 07-11-2009 04:57 AM
nature didnt do anything really other than get possiblly just 1 train off its tracks and the trains momentum did the rest

shenmecar 09-14-2009 08:02 AM
http://www.revscene.net/forums/train...o-t582060.html

Use the "Search" button next time.

thumper 09-14-2009 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by shenmecar (Post 6591593)
um, why are you linking back to this thread? :confused:

murd0c 09-14-2009 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by shenmecar (Post 6591593)

So I'm supposted to search for a thread I made before I made it?


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