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


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azV5bC2br-Q&feature=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
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
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
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.


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
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
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
they should have hired michael bay to produce this short! :D
haha!
PiuYi
07-11-2009, 03:12 AM
^ 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-vs-tornado-t582060.html

Use the "Search" button next time.
thumper
09-14-2009, 08:31 AM
http://www.revscene.net/forums/train-vs-tornado-t582060.html

Use the "Search" button next time.

um, why are you linking back to this thread? :confused:
murd0c
09-14-2009, 09:22 AM
http://www.revscene.net/forums/train-vs-tornado-t582060.html

Use the "Search" button next time.


So I'm supposted to search for a thread I made before I made it?
spoon.ek9
09-14-2009, 09:26 AM
looool.
elkayem
09-14-2009, 10:01 AM
http://www.revscene.net/forums/train-vs-tornado-t582060.html

Use the "Search" button next time.
LOL fail.
Drow
09-14-2009, 02:47 PM
http://www.revscene.net/forums/train-vs-tornado-t582060.html

Use the "Search" button next time.

FAIL OF THE DECADE
shenmecar
09-14-2009, 03:31 PM
I meant to post that in the other one. xD

http://www.revscene.net/forums/train-vs-tornado-t589190.html

see its even has the same damn thread name.
skyxx
09-14-2009, 04:40 PM
It's back to the future. That's a mind fuck...

You can keep clicking on the link and it'll bring you back HERE! WHOA!
thumper
09-14-2009, 06:37 PM
I meant to post that in the other one. xD

http://www.revscene.net/forums/train-vs-tornado-t589190.html

see its even has the same damn thread name.

murd0c posted this thread on 07-09-2009, 05:51 PM.

the one you linked to above was posted by ch0pstix today at 12:26 AM.

and you're telling murd0c he needs to use a search button for a repost that was done after murd0c posted this thread... what am i missing here? :confused:
pandalove
09-14-2009, 08:19 PM
MINDFUCK
Drift_Monkey
09-15-2009, 12:35 AM
that was gay i actually thought the train would fly up in the air

exact same thought....
shenmecar
09-15-2009, 07:46 AM
murd0c posted this thread on 07-09-2009, 05:51 PM.

the one you linked to above was posted by ch0pstix today at 12:26 AM.

and you're telling murd0c he needs to use a search button for a repost that was done after murd0c posted this thread... what am i missing here? :confused:

I meant to post that "use the search button" comment in the other one posted by ch0pstix and link it back to this one. But I got confused which is which since they both have the same name. =_=