No that’s some wind to blow that steel off the rails.
http://wgno.com/2015/04/27/watch-strong-winds-knocks-over-train-in-jefferson-parish/
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Worked for me. Wow!..Lucky no body was hurt.
Garry I had to update the link - try again.
Chris … Thanks … I wonder if the railroad will operate across that bridge during future storms. I would hope they learned from this experience.
I only live about 1 hour from the Gulf and we had no really bad weather here. I guess it took them by surprise - but still - they should think about running trains in bad weather across that bridge. Some sailing boats were sunk in the gulf by the same storm. Maybe someone didn’t figure the winds were going to be that strong.
It must have been a strong wind to toss tons of steel like that over the bridge.
There have been trains (and containers) blown off bridges elsewhere. At least one bridge in a northwestern US mountainous area has a windbreak wall on the (usually) windward side - placed after several similar mishaps.
A few years ago on Japan’s north coast a train of four DMU was laid on its side by excessive winds. Fortunately it had just cleared a bridge, and landed on solid ground. (Actually, rather swampy ground - but not a drowning hazard.)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
As someone who lives only a few miles away from this accident and experienced this storm first hand, the storm was expected, BUT the winds were MUCH higher than expected. We only just got power restored at our home an hour ago after it went out at 10:30 this morning.
A few years back NS had a double stack train blown over/off tracks near NY/PA state line on the former NKP Chicago Line, difference was, no bridge. Was during a storm that created a Tornado Warning, but no confirmed touchdown. They were stopping it due to weather concerns, but got hit before they could stop, by, what authorities called, “straight-line winds” exceeding 70MPH. Interesting note, the day before this, temperatures were in the 70’s, that storm came through in the early morning, that night it snowed. Had a couple inches of it by next morning.
We had wind gusts in the area of over 110 mph.
Ricky
Perhaps you are refering to the Triple Crown trailers dumped into Sandusky Bay in November of 1998 on the former New York Central main?
Forward to 6:00 (I tried to link the video to 6:00 but was not able to do so)
There was also a handful of double stacks dumped into the Susquehanna River off the PRR’s Rockville Bridge:
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/12/reports_freight_train_dumps_ca.html
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Norfolk Southern confirmed around 5 p.m. that the freight train belongs to the railroad.
Then there was the popular video circulating a few years ago where an in-cab camera caught a tornado in JANUARY, 2008, ripping through a UP train in Harvard, IL.
Pretty wild stuff indeed!
Ed
Nope, neither of those. In Dec. 2009 NS had a intermodal blown over near the town of North East Pa, outside of Erie, towards the NY/PA state line, into a grape vineyard. Tore up several yards of track, and threw containers and cars into the vineyard. (I only remember this as I live only 45 mins from the scene, and we had some minor property damage from same storm.)
Oh, North East. I didn’t recall that one! Thanks for clarifying.
Ed
Train Vs Tornado - WOW now that’s a video.
Do they get hazzard pay for working on those conditions?
There goes all that Atlas track that we’ve been waiting for…
Probably the Broadway Limited Baldwin Sharks, too… Guess we’ll have to wait another eight years…
Ed
Maybe you could pick them up real cheap at a Railroad Salvage store.
Sure, however, just like the old Athearn BB loco’s, some assembly is required. [swg]
Ok, maybe a little more assembly than that… That just makes them cheaper, right? [:-^]
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The D&RGW used to have problems with winds blowing trains off the tracks at the Big Ten curves west of Denver on its climb beginning up the Front Range. They placed rip-rap filled hoppers on the inside of the little ten curve and marooned them there as a wind block. Eventually I did run across some photo’s of freight cars strewn along the curve in the 60’s IIRC before the wind block was made, including TOFC cars on a flat car etc.