Interesting…
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Notice them using a brake stick to apply the hand brake after the rail car is on the trailer.
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worst part first thing that pops to mind “someone tell these guys to drop 3 off at my house in the back yard and maybe some track too” “wait you want to know why i want them. okay its personal use im gonna use them in my back yard for mining rock with my shovel and pickaxe. and also to see how many 200cc tuk tuks i need to team together to pull three of these bad boys loaded with stone”
after that all the work stopped the workers went home and never could explain to their wives why they were laughing so hard that one fateful day.
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way i see it almost anything is better then watching that scene from unstoppable where they shot guns at the fuel tank and the shut off switch i still dont get the logic isnt bullets aimed at fuel tanks not good maybe its just me maybe it was a good idea and i just dont get how
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Probably OK with a bullet. Now if it was a shaped charge weapon like an RPG or TOW (as probably you might see in use on the streets of Chicago 
), I wouldn’t want to be near the fuel tank.
There is a similar unwarranted concern with residential gas meters, which they stupidly place right next to the back alley in Texas. You can run over one with your car and the gas comming out of the small diameter pipe is not enough to cause any concern unless it has a chance to accumulate somewhere. Though if someone hits a gas meter in my subdivision they are all over social media with alarmists posts about how people are going to die and someone has to be there right away because they have no clue how to turn off the gas.
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well to me it just seems too small come on 1 lil red button traviling at 60+MPH and you have that one chance. thats like trying to take a rifle and hit only the red lugnut off of a car going 60+mph you better be deadshot from the marvel comics if you think your gonna pull that off without randomly stupid blind luck
Well first it is Hollywood but…
I believe I was responding to your concern about firing a bullet at a diesel fuel tank cutoff button on a locomotive being safe (other than damage to the button the tank is probably not going to explode). You altered the discussion with the above post which is tracking a moving target once you acquire it and hitting it accurately. Two different topics. Spinning lug nuts is yet a different target type.
As for going down this rabbit hole further. We are off topic.
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What would have worked was an officer standing near trackside with one of those crowd-control shotguns that shoots the equivalent of a weighted beanbag. From 8-10 feet that would be a sensible shot and the projectile would trip rather than destroy the switch.
I have never seen them shoot bean bags in a Hollywood movie.
i dont know ive been a bit scattered lately thinking wise
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I think more of us have then would like to admit.
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Not bean bags themselves, baton rounds. If I had said ‘kinetic impact projectiles’ it would probably not have helped you either.
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Second part of this…unloading the cars…
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When the real runaway happened, they did try shooting it. FWIW it wasn’t going as fast as the movie, it topped out around 47 mph.
More realistic than the engine having it’s inside wheels lift off the rail when doing thru the sharp curve.
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Interesting story, thanks for posting! Why would they use buckshot?
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For the same reasons you use it shooting skeet, instead of using bullets or slugs. Hint: low brass, but perhaps a fair amount of choke. You want to push the cutoff, not damage it.
As I indicated, a crowd-control baton round would have been the thing to use. If you like, you can think of it as buckshot in a cushioned bag.
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