Dipshit driver just standing there almost got wiped out by his truck being whipped around like a piece of tin foil. If you’re in that situation, you run
Did anyone else’s parents tell them when they were growing up that it you put a coin on the tracks you could derail the train?
Yeah… About that…
I used to flatten coins that way all the time as a kid. Did it on dates, worked really well. First time I heard that was on a date and I laughed a bit too hard I guess, didn’t work that time.
No parking!
I think I know the same amount of information after reading the article as I did before. That “article” could have been a headline.
Train collides with tractor trailer - no injuries - details still unknown
I feel disrespected by that article. Harrumph.
It’s incredible how little that train slowed down (if it did at all).
Think of the mass of a freight train carrying over a miles worth of material behind it. Then a truck
I don’t even know how that gets started. Let alone stops.
Started is with, as you see, 3 to 5 massive diesel-electric engines, taking quite a while to max speed. Modern railways have electric engines that do the same but with better torque and traction, but we don’t have modern railways in America.
Stopping is interesting. The engines have their own brakes, but three engines can’t stop a train that long by themselves, the brakes would just melt. They are set mostly like a parking brake when you are already stopped.
The actual brakes are air brakes, with a tube of compressed air connecting from the front of the train to the back. Each car has its own brakes then that are applied as pressure is released from the brake system. Going into emergency brake is essentially all pressure being released and all brakes throughout the entire train engaging, and that is what we are seeing here.
With that though, the train is still tens of thousands of tons of mass moving at a max track speed of 55mph. It’s going to take some time to slow that down, even with every brake being applied.
Don’t fuck around with trains.
Wow, very interesting. If there wasn’t any critical damage to the train, might as well keep going till the destination!
From that level of crash I’d assume mostly cosmetic, maybe a tiny bit of damage right behind the hood, but yes I assume once the bits of truck were moved out of the way it just started up and kept going, probably visiting the shop on its next service stop is all
These things take miles to slow down, usually tens of carriages loaded with metal, liquid, and whatever else.
FREIGHT TRAIN
Well that looked like a three locomotive formation, unless one of those is something else.
Who knows how eternally long that train is
Choo choo im a train.
I can’t imagine what that sounds like and feels like for the engineer
Poor guy at the car yard having to call his customers and explain what happened.
Where was this? It looks familiar…
Everywhere, USA
How do you get videos to play in the post, OP?
