The nite of 05/11/05 was very stormy in & around Grand Island NE. Around 20 miles east of G. Island a tornado struck several UPRR trains. The coal cars I estimate are at least 10/20 feet from the tracks themselves. Please click on the below link then Tornado Results if you wi***o view those pix. You can access any of the other galleries listed if you chose also.
Heee’ssss back!
I was about ready to say the same thing[(-D].
Well tornadoes do suck; they also blow too…[:D][:-^]
Nice shots, I exspecialy like the one looking down the road with the MoW crews on the side.
Tornados suck. [:D][;)]
It’s amazing that the trees, and power lines were not affected.
It looks like the coal cars were empty I guess, but still, that’s a lot of weight. The power lines must have faired better, due to low surface area.
Dave
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Yes it suprised me that the cars missed the poles as they flew off the tracks. [:o)][8D]
Yes I saw no coal lying around like at the rearender accident west of Fremont so I presumed that the cars were light moving WB. [:o)][:D]
Thanks [:D][:p]
Why do tornado’s always hit coal trains near trailor parks?
Randy
Trailer parks are magnets for tornados. A well known but little discussed fact.
Impressive.
Definetly not an F1.
More likely an F2 or F3 type tornado. Scary and sobering part of life.
Randy in this particular case there was no trailer parks within 10 miles east or west north or south that I saw. This occurred in a open area next to route 30 on the south side & a farmers field on the north side. The RR tracks run east west at this point. [;)][;)][;)]
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Tree68 I presume you are talking in general about trailer parks being the target. In this particular case there was no trailer park I would say at least in a 10 mile radius of the incident.[;)]
I am not familiar with the strenght of tornado. However, from just a laymans view that tornado lifted the cars right off the trucks as the trucks were on the south side of the tracks & the cars themself were in a farmers field on the north side of the tracks. [;)][;)]
About 10 years ago, a tornado lifted a fully loaded steam locomotive tender off the tracks at Cedar Park Texas. The locomotive stayed put.
dd
We need more garlic[:p]. If that doesn’t work let the shadow of a cross fall on him!
In 1990 a UP coal train on the old Hosington Sub in central KS had several loaded cars towards the middle of its train blown off trks by a F4 storm. On May 25, 1955 the small southern KS town of Udall was wiped off the map by a late night F5 which killed 80 people and became the states most deadly storm. The old ATSF depot was destroyed as well 8 cars parked next to the depot were tossed around like match sticks. #16 the TX Chief had passed through the area within 15 min of the arrival of the tornado and could have also became gobbled up into the sky w/Toto.