Not sure if anybody has seen this, but it’s a pretty incredible video of a train going thru a tornado and the results…not good. Hopefully, this link will work.
so much for catchinig a nap on the second unit.
grizlump
Great link, thanks! That was terrifying. Wonder how a video camera got lucky to be there when it did?
Lou
WOW!
In the words of Sherriff Beauford T.Justice, “That is what they call an ‘attention getter’”!
-George
Here’s the text that came along withthe video…
This video came from a fellow who works for the RR as a train dispatcher. Every once in a while he sends a cool video involving trains. This is one of them.
Trains nowadays mount cameras in their cabs, facing forward and backward, the same way police cars do. This video is a rearward camera. This is video of a train that ran through a tornado…
First there is the normal rearward view from the last of three engines, with the trees looking normal. Then you begin to see rain, and then, halfway through the video the trees begin to sway violently . . . and then the “fun” begins.
This video has been around for a long while but it’s still a good view.
How’d ya like to have been in that cab watching that tank car come at ya? That woulda been REAL fun!
I was thinking the same thing. I saw the sparks and then realized it was a tanker and thought “oh no…it’s going to explode”, but luckily, it didn’t.
Does anybody else know of more videos like this one? Not necessarily with wrecks, but with video footage of onboard cameras.