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07-09-2009, 04:51 PM
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Just found this on youtube......Hard to belive sometimes what mother nature can do  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azV5b...ture=topvideos | 
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07-09-2009, 05:09 PM
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i was expecting a large explosion after the tanker collided, glad it didn't happen.
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07-09-2009, 05:27 PM
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skip to 1:10 of the video if you don't want to wait.
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07-09-2009, 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Eatman  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
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07-09-2009, 06:05 PM
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Amazingly the camera didn't get destroyed by a flying piece of debris. WOW.
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07-09-2009, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by static 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...
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07-09-2009, 08:15 PM
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that was gay i actually thought the train would fly up in the air
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^ LOL i was totally expecting that too. Like it would get caught in the tornado and spin the train round and round.
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07-09-2009, 09:33 PM
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^Great minds think alike!
I was expecting that too!
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07-09-2009, 10:59 PM
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Originally Posted by you 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.
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07-10-2009, 09:39 AM
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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. Quote:
Originally Posted by TekDragon 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.
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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...
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07-10-2009, 11:58 AM
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wow..... nature
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07-10-2009, 12:17 PM
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u never mess w/ mother nature yo
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Originally Posted by jlenko 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.
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thats it?
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07-10-2009, 05:04 PM
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thats pretty cool
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07-10-2009, 05:39 PM
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nicee, surprised no explosions
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07-10-2009, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by static 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!  | |
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07-10-2009, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by thumper they should have hired michael bay to produce this short! | haha!
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07-11-2009, 03:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Mr.Campo ^ 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..... 
ya i was expecting it too
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07-11-2009, 04:57 AM
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nature didnt do anything really other than get possiblly just 1 train off its tracks and the trains momentum did the rest
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09-14-2009, 08:31 AM
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09-14-2009, 09:22 AM
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So I'm supposted to search for a thread I made before I made it?
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