Those were some wild videos!!
Sincerely hope no one was injuried during filming/taping.
The train hitting the log truck is one heck of a way to make toothpicks!!
On this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1jiI47KAnI&mode=related&search=train%20crash read the caption at right. “…truck got stuck in a pot hole.” It seams to me that’s not the first time I’ve heard that explaination. How does a truck get stuck in a pot hole? Must have been a real big hole if you ask me. I mean some of these truck tractors are pushing six or seven hundred horse!!!
Well, that’s what I thought, too. But there was an incident in Ohio last year (or year before?) where a runaway cut of cars clipped a minivan at a protected crossing, and the lights never activated. I never could figure out why, and never heard an explanation. Maybe going too fast and too short a movement for that crossing’s timing device? I have no idea. Everything my pea brain knows about protected crossings tells me they would indeed activate, but evidently I’m missing something.
My guess is too short as well.The pothole excuse, well maybe he dropped his drives in a drainage ditch there and got stuck. Who knows but if you want a humdinger they have the footage of the man and lady running to beat the Chicago commuter train. It isnt pretty they stop the tape as she goes by the camera. I am not posting the link as I would rather not. Its not pretty and not really nice to view.
“Train Crash 3” video: I’ve said this before, anybody who uses push-pull commuter rail service and rides in the cab car (aka “coffin cars”) is nuts. The front half of the leading passenger car was destroyed when it hit the locomotive. If the locomotive in the test had a crew, they would of walked away from the crash.
Second comment goes back to the locomotive vs. tornado thread we had a while back. After watching the cab noses withstand the impacts in Videos 1 and 2, anyone still doubt that a locomotive nose would be the best place to ride out a tornado?
What, do you work for a news company? I have all this crap about how they won’t ride in the “coffin cars.” That incident with Metrolink is the only one I’ve ever heard where the cabcar collapsed. I’m sure there’s been more deaths with locomotives forward than with cabcars. I try to ride in the cab car every time I ride Metra in Chicagoland. Great views down the tracks, don’t have to walk as far once you get to the downtown station either.
No, I don’t work for the media. Besides, the term “coffin cars” was coined by train crews. Ask anybody in the industry whether they would rather be in the locomotive or a cab car when they hit a semi hauling 40 tons of gravel.