I had seen this video before, perhaps even here on TB. However, after seeing this copy, it's obvious the earlier ones were heavily edited and left out the lead-in before the storm, and the chaos after all the cars and engines had come to a full stop. http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/7769081/124862335/name/Tornado1.wmv I never realized what dangers road crews could be faced with, and especially at night when they can't see what's coming. My hat is off to you guys. :tb-shocked:
Yeah, I suppose. But the deleted footage did not really add much. Still a cool video. I remember a story told about an MKT train where a tornado picked a car out of the train an blew it a ways off. The crew thought they just had an uncoupling when the train went into emergency. They recoupled, hooked up the brake line and went on, not realizing that they were missing a car.
We actually had a derailment up here (not a tornado, sorry!) on the WC where a car towards the end of the train derailed and dragged for about a mile. It then, for whatever reason, catapulted off the rail into a nearby field. The cars on either side stayed on the rail...of course the errant car then put the train into emergency. In the ensuing stop, the rear portion of the train coasted just enough to couple back into the head portion. The conductor walked back, found the air hose separation at this spot and repaired it, regaining the air. When comparing car numbers for the report, they discovered they had a car missing. This all occurred at night, so it wasn't immediately obvious what had happened. Walking a little bit further back, he found the hopper car out in a field adjacent to the right of way fence. So- this hopper car flew approximately 75 feet during the derailment- without a tornado. Think about that next time you sit at a crossing as a train goes through! LOL -George Widener CN Fond du Lac, WI
