Train vs. Tornado

obieone
obieone Posts: 5,077
edited March 2010 in The Clubhouse
This vid. is from 2008, but I don't remember seeing it here, so I figured y'all would enjoy something trippy?:eek:

I never would have guessed that a tornado had this much power:confused:



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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    Whoa that so cool but scary.
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  • I-SIG
    I-SIG Posts: 2,238
    edited March 2010
    Motherf&%ker! Having worked a couple of tornadoes with the power company, this isn't that surprising. Thinking about a freight train getting de-railed like that is an assault on the senses though.

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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited March 2010
    Ouch! Glad it was a freight train!
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,692
    edited March 2010
    The rail cars derailing probably had the Engineer's **** puckering tight enough to crack walnuts.

    ...... the sight of that tanker car (filled with flamable fluids ?), spewing sparks all over the rail bed, advancing on the locomotive at a nice steady pace, probably loosened that Engineer's **** up quite nicely.

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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited March 2010
    Reminds me of a model train coming off the track. DANG!
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited March 2010
    That certainly gives a great appreciation for mother nature's power; however, it also is a great testimony to the pure mass and solidity of an engine, that all the other cars didn't pull it off the track, and the tank car slamming into it, though pushing it off the tracks, didn't seem to unsettle it too drastically.

    I'm glad to see the tank car seemed to be built so tough; it was certainly subjected to a LOT of stress crashing down the rails, bobbing up and down, then steaming into the engine at full-force. I would've guessed it'd be split open for sure.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    I watched it again . . . that tanker didn't blow! Unbelievable.
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited March 2010
    Damm thats some scary stuff right there.
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited March 2010
    WOW - That was wild.
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  • KASR
    KASR Posts: 450
    edited March 2010
    Gives one a false sense of security when they say "go to a central location in your home...". Around here, if you don't have an underground shelter, you're rolling the dice. Tornado season is about to start in these parts. :(
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  • greg2350
    greg2350 Posts: 544
    edited March 2010
    The trees dont seem to be moving much for a tornado powerful enough to derail a train.
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  • KASR
    KASR Posts: 450
    edited March 2010
    greg2350 wrote: »
    The trees dont seem to be moving much for a tornado powerful enough to derail a train.

    Apparently trees>freight train! LOL!
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    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2010
    greg2350 wrote: »
    The trees dont seem to be moving much for a tornado powerful enough to derail a train.


    That's what I was thinking too Greg. Amazing video, that tanker bouncing down the track is stuff my nightmares are made of. Still, eh on the 'tornado' side of it.
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited March 2010
    greg2350 wrote: »
    The trees dont seem to be moving much for a tornado powerful enough to derail a train.

    The energy and winds in a tornado are very concentrated. They can destroy a house and leave the neighbors standing. This could've even been a downdraft straight-line wind. Hard to tell from the short vid.

    Also, I would imagine that train car couplers are probably designed to break free if stressed in an unusual manner, to allow the engine/rest of the cars to remain on the track.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited March 2010
    KASR wrote: »
    Tornado season is about to start in these parts. :(

    I think it already has, and with the way this winter was, I think we are in for a real bumpy spring, maybe even through the summer too.
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited March 2010
    KASR wrote: »
    Gives one a false sense of security when they say "go to a central location in your home...". Around here, if you don't have an underground shelter, you're rolling the dice. Tornado season is about to start in these parts. :(

    I drove up Hwy62 about 30-45 minutes before this was filmed. So it was still just west of the highway bearing down from Chickasha. Hellish! When we left Lake Overholser Soccer Park 20 minutes earlier, the skies were a little cloudy. Great day to take the kids to soccer practice.:eek::eek:

    You can't tell from the video but that sucker was a mile wide.


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    Aftermath- same neighborhood in South Moore. Just went on for miles like that.

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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited March 2010
    I've been through a few of them when I traveled as a field engineer and the mid-west was my region. I experienced quite a few in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, Lubbock TX, Tulsa OK and Columbus OH. Just to name a few.

    When that green eerie sky with hail stones start look the eff out!
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  • KASR
    KASR Posts: 450
    edited March 2010
    Ahhh...May 3rd.....good times.
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