A TURKEY went thru the windshield of an AEM7 that was moving at 80 mph (the train, not the turkey!)
Maybe the 45(?) mph Mexican cinder block test isn’t enough!
(Engr suffered only minor injuries, thank goodness)
That was useless. The subscriber only thread.
Should this be tested by Mythbusters?
Not much more too it that what I said…
Only if they can come up with a “turkey cannon” with an 80 mph muzzle velocity or they use an actual train.[:)]
I’m sure the Turkey cannon is technologically possible, after all the compressed air chicken cannons used to test aircraft cockpit windshields have a higher muzzle velocity than that…
Too bad Amtrak doesn’t still use “Ghetto bars” on NEC locomotives, they would could rename them “wild fowl defensive screens”
From the picture I saw of this occurrence elsewhere - the glazing itself seemed to hold together, the window frame appeared to give way and allowed the glazing to tilt into the cab - delivering the turkey to the crew. It did not appear that the turkey went through the glazing.
Safety feed!
Fresh killed turkey as the entree’.
And, if the engine had been diesel powered, the crew could have cooked the turkey right there.
Just attach it to the pantograph.
I would imagine there are things inside the carbody of a electric locomotive that get hot enough to cook with!
It seems after slamming onto the windscreen at 80 mph it would be turkey pâté. Yummie!
Potentially, the impact would have shattered the turkey such that the current chicken advertising campaign would have some merit - ‘I ate the bones!’.