Moving Train hit by Tornado
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- i-cab caught this one realllllly well.
Camera mounted in rear facing locomotive (I am told it was 4th out in consist of 4 engines).
It occurred in Illinois, earlier this year.
Watch, especially to the left -- watch the trees bend, debris in the air, and you can actually see the tornado pass from right to left.
The trestle seen at the end of the video was moved out of alignment to the left 18 inches -- the tank car was a load of Ethylene Oxide -- nasty stuff.
At first I was like aww he lost some cars, then I saw that tanker coming instant "OHH SH**!!!!" moment.
+Thermidor E1 That was an ethylene oxide tank car. Woof.
Aka shock fluid
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I don't think they put it in shock fluid. They put it in bunker buster warheads.
It has Had said it was in another video what are bunker buster warheads
The car coming at the locomotive was ethylene oxide that is indeed used in warheads. It did not leak. There was another car in the train with the "shock fluid". That is the one that leaked and caused an evacuation.
ok.....seeing a tank car thundering at me like that would be......something that would haunt me for years, yikes
+Jeremy Lovejoy It looks like it is moving so slowly, but that gigantic inertia is insane. Those millions of tons wouldn't be stopped.
It was later revealed that the tanker was carrying ethylene glycol (sometimes referred to by its nickname, "really nasty stuff") It's a testimony to the structural integrity of that tanker that this video (and the locomotives) survived. For the record, this camera was recording automatically-- there was a crew in the forward locomotive, but this cab was unoccupied.
Not exactly millions of tons
The car contacting the locomotive was carrying ethylene oxide and not ethylene glycol. This tankcar did not rupture or leak. Another tankcar of hazardous material did leak and a nearby town was evacuated..
kleetus92 Ethylene glycol is antifreeze and it is toxic. The one that is in food and some kinds of alcohol is proplylene glycol. They are somewhat related but still very different.
My parents showed me this 10 years ago when it was first uploaded and I got obsessed with it. And now 10 years later, I come to see it again.
Hey, same here!
Talk about being in one of the worst things during a tornado. You can't steer away, you can't slow down, you can't back up, and you are surrounded by thousands of pounds of steel being tossed around like toys.
The Red Viper well...I would rather be in the cab of a locomotive than in a car.
YouOnlyLiveTwice No that is the best place to be... no tornado would be able to lift a locomotive off the ground
Geminijets NewMexico ef5 would probably tip it over for sure.
Geminijets NewMexico an f5 could
EnderGames68 Might tip it over but it isn't throwing a locomotive around.
"Yeah.. I rode through a tornado and rolled my train. Didn't even cry..." "Not even when that tanker was bouncin' my way"
@hawtchick69 you haven’t been around much then
Lol
So you are an engineer for union pacific is that correct
Whoever this Hudson guy is… his mom gets around cuz she gave birth to him.. 😷
and that's why they say, it sounds like a freight train coming.
Lol
Very good 👍😊
I thought the oil tank was going to blow up
It’s kind of common misconception about train tanker cars. They are extremely durable as they are designed to survive derailments and crashes. If the car was going full speed into the stopped locomotive then it may very likely would have breached and started leaking, which would of lead to a fire but they don’t explode unless for example they get blown up or hit directly by a projectile.
The fact the car was already derailed and being pushed across the tie beams helped slow it down enough and helped slow down the remain wrecking cars. It also probably helped a tremendous amount the fact just as the locomotive was going over a bridge so the tanker car got reflected on impact and went over the bridge into the water below.
Hari Kishore Even if it was empty the residual vapor from the built up leftover liquid in the tank is enough to cause a fire or explosion if the tanker is hit or hits hard enough.
It might not have even been carrying hazardous materials in the first place, tankers carry more than just oil or dangerous chemicals, something that a lot of people forget because we hear so many stories about tankers blowing up or leaking something hazardous. for all we know, that tanker could have been carrying a non-flammable/non-toxic liquid used for the food industry.
Michel bay would.
Same
I used to watch this like ten times a day because trains and tornadoes were my favorite things
Trainado
And you are not right in the head.
Where's the giant hand to put it all back on the track? 😂
On a differente note... where's the track?!
Incredible, frightening video!
Initially thinking "Whew! It derailed but at least it seemed to be coming to a stop." Then I saw the tank car sailing forward... Yikes!
Thanks for this!
Trains be like:
Sorry tornado, I gotta get somewhere
Tornado be like :
Nah son you staying riiiight here.
Tornado: stay right where you are
tornado sez " you fucked, boy" " dis motha fuckah's comin' thru "
Train after hearing that: **derails**
It's good to see locomotives stay on the tracks in a tornado.
Can you imagine being a hobo riding in that grain car like they do!
Hobos ride in grain cars?
@@nightlightabcd "if he's still in there, he ain't happy!"
LMAO !!😂😂 u got a point. They b hanging on 4 life if it didnt kill em
@Pythagoras Theorem yeah sure do ! Lol
I haven't heard the term hobo in 20 years
1:25..............Oh BALLS!
Uhhhh oh 🔥
PISS! DAMNIT! Mens asses!
G.P.M. 210 lol wtf 😆?
That escalated quickly...
Engineer: ok the derailment is over.
The rest of the cars: I AINT DONE WITH YOU YET. COME HERE BOI
Oh crap! A tank car coming at you with sparks flying. I was expecting an explosion. Whew!
You need containment, have a concentration between upper and lower explosive limits and an ignition source. A fire would be more likely
You wouldn't have a video if there was an explosion
It crosses at 1:02-1:09 It is really hard to see until the last four seconds of the crossing (1:05-1:09), on the left. At 1:07, 1:08, you can actually see some debris! There also appears to be a power flash out of frame to the left at 1:10. The part that really makes this surreal is from 1:11 on. Great video!
Makes me wonder if the Cattle Plow comes with a disclaimer..."Not effective against Tornados. Results, may vary."
I remember that day well, it had gone from very cold to very warm inside of a day in the middle of winter...the kind of day where you know the weather is going to be real bad. A supercell storm blew up north of about Freeport that afternoon, and headed east along the Illinois-Wisconsin line. I was working in downtown Chicago, and the sky along the northern horizon was a mass of black clouds. While heading home the crew reported that all trains were stopping at either Crystal Lake or Woodstock, a tornado had hit a freight train near Harvard.
That was definitely a tornado. If you look carefully in the upper left hand corner of the screen just before the derailment, then you can see a small part of the funnel cloud.
Meanwhile. Persy was in alot of trouble. His wheels came off the tracks. He said helppppp. Thomas said come on persy. You can do it.
I've heard that tornadoes sound like a freight train but this is for real.
They do, in fact. I've driven a semi through one (unknowingly), and had about four or five almost land on me while parked overnight.
What if that cylinder tank was carrying HFbF-6! That would have been a mess 😳...
Driver: "Meh, it's just a bunch of wind..."
Seconds Later
Driver: SWEET GALLOPING GORILAS!!!
Hello to everybody on TH-cam. You probably won’t believe this but I was the RANZENBERGER driver That picked up the crew that was driving that train. The train line is called the Harvard subdivision it runs from proviso to Up in to Wisconsin. After picking up the crew I had to take them to a medical clinic so they can get drug tested for blood and urine. To see if they were under the influence of drugs or alcohol. From what I’ve been told it’s standard procedure. After an accident like that. If nobody’s familiar with the company they transport railroad train crews in a white van. Mr. Bill CNW
I worked for a company that did the same thing... even if the accident was not our fault, "pee in this cup" best part is, mother nature needed the piss test herself for knocking over that train.
That's one lucky driver, could have been so much worse
how do you know?
Babba16 are you being serious right now....the cart went over, theres someone driving that train....what happens when trains go off their tracks....people die!
dont think so
Babba16 omg haha seriously I dont have time for people wih no brain cells who sit and troll 😂😂
Babba16 do you not watch what goes on in the world buttercup? There was a train derailment just last month where 6 people died and it wasn't even as bad as this one. Do u not see the big fat gas tanker in tnis video thst ploughs into the cart...and the big clue being the sparks coming off it...that there equals a lucky driver. Toodles
I know a guy who works for Union Pacific, he said he was the track inspector for this incident.
I thought that tanker was a train from the end screeching it’s breaks for a sec
EF5’s have not only derailed entire trains but thrown them many yards from the tracks. We are talking about something with forces that are difficult to comprehend. Wind power increases by the cube of wind speed. So an EF4/5 tornado can be many many many times stronger and more devastating than a EF1/2 or even 3. A tornado with 200 mph winds is 8x more powerful than one with 100 mph winds as an example. The Bridge Creek-Moore 1999 tornado had estimated wind speeds of 300mph. That’s 27x more powerful than a low end EF2. This tornado was likely an EF1-2 and it still did this. Nature is crazy!
The fact that this video from 11 years ago of something totally random doesnt have millions of views suprises me
I worked for the Denver & Rio Grande Western RR back in the early 70's. Trains coming out of Denver heading west on the mainline soon encounter the Rocky Mountains at a place called Rocky Flats. The trains must start trekking their way up a steep winding grade and a big curve known as the Big 10 curve. The Big 10 curve is right at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon which at times is one of the windiest places in America. The cold air on the high peaks sinks and that air comes flowing down those canyons and creates hurricane force 100 mph + winds. Over the years the D&RGW had many derailments at the Big 10 curve. The wind would blow the trains over and cause massive derailments..including the engines. Since the D&RGW was a mountain RR they always had at least 4 headend engines and often times 2 helper engines at the back to push them up the grade. I went to many of those wrecks during my years. I was always mesmerized by the wreckage at a derailment. It's truly something you have to see to believe.
Wind is extremely powerful. 🚂
Can you help us understand what we just saw? I was expecting this video to have commentary, and it doesn't.
What do you think about this crash?
For sure, some of the cars were irreparably damaged, but do you think most of them could have just been put back on the tracks, hooked back up, and sent on their way?
I don't think anyone would have been back there, but what about the cargo?
Do you think it the type of cargo it carried would have damaged by such a crash, or not? 🤔
Assuming the cargo wasn't eggs or glass , or something fragile.
Second, the wind flows _down_ the Canyon at 100 mph.
Darn!
Traveling down is easy.
I was wondering if there was a way to use that strong of a wind to drive a train _back up_ 😞
@@TheNoiseySpectator Hi Noisy.
There is no narration because the camera that is capturing this video is mounted in the windshield of the rear engine that is facing backwards. My guess is this train had 3 engines at the headend and this was the last in that string. They typically always face that rear engine backwards and none of them are ever manned - hence why you hear the crash but don't hear anybody talking (or screaming..lol)
High winds or tornados naturally get the lightest boxcars swaying and rocking first until they derail and that sets off a chain reaction which is what you saw here. You'll notice by the time that Grain car right behind the engine goes over the cars behind it have already derailed. Thankfully that Grain car didn't take the engine over with it.
Things get really crazy when you see that Tanker heading for the engine. That Tanker was most likely empty but the weight of those cars behind it pushing it is tremendous. Had that been a fully loaded Tanker full of something flammable this could have been a real disaster. Why do I think it was empty? It would have hit the back of that engine where the camera was with MUCH MORE FORCE!
YIKES. I'm certain the Engineer and Brakemen in the lead engine could feel what was going on and were petrified at what might have been. I know I would!
To answer your question can the derailed box cars be put on the track - the answer is Yes..BUT only if their damage is not so bad that they cannot stay together long enough to be pulled very slowly to the nearest maintenance train yard and undergo extensive repairs.
Most people don't know this but the wheels 🚃 and axels on the boxcars (called 'Trucks') are not actually fastened to the box car itself. Sounds crazy I know but you'll just have to trust me. To explain it here is too much but because those Trucks aren't hard fastened to the boxcar is the reason you see train wheels all over the place at a wreck.
There were no such cameras like this when I was a Railroader so to actually watch a derailment as it happens is quite fascinating to me.
My name is Mike. Thanks for listening friend! 🚂 Take Care!
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Freaking amazing video! Great for dynamic reconstruction & investigation! Thanks!
wow, i actually swore out loud, that scene should be used in a movie
Tornado 1 - Train 0
More like Tornado 7, Train 7 if you score by cars knocked over vs those left on track.
@@jkllfdsa the engine won two didn't even shake it lol, a draw ,1_1, lol👍
Was the train blowing its whistle to warn the tornado it was coming 😂
I think you meant horn but ok
It speaks volumes when a grip of cars are shoved off the track,and the remaining train plows into the engine,the impact comes off like when that Kidd ran into me at the go kart track... amazing
Let's just be thankful that the tanker car didn't rupture. Ethylene oxide isn't a nice chemical.
the tank car approaching was very ominous
It's been awhile since I last saw this but I worked with the conductor Leo Ramirez and engineer Billy P. I think I joined the railroad a little before this. My respect for all the true Rail still running!
You could see in the background the trees whipping around it was about to get real!!!
Awwesommee!! Finally caught on camera the precise moment of a dissaster, not that i adore tragedies, but to see the moment of how some bad things that occur in the world happened when you always see it on the media after it happened then you wounder how a train could derail, best cab ride video i've seen
That was really cool!!
Thank you for posting :) 5 stars!!!
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Whoa...finally, a video that lives up its title.
Most amazing footage that tank car just bounced along with momentum. Wow thank so much.
dude that engine still wins b/c it's still on the track sweet video though...i love it 5 stars!
What a shot!
I've got to put this on my blog (giving you full credit, of course).
Im going off the rails in a crazy train !!!
anyone else find it really scary how fast it went from a cloudy windless day to pouring rain then super windy then tornado? (watch the trees)
me and a friend had to watch this video in science class and i remember we could NOT stop laughing. Idk if it was just because we were in a silly, goofy mood but the way that one train car just bounced on in there made all the more funny.😂
That had to have some power. And just when you thought it was over. BOOM. Here come the other cars. Great video
You are correct except for one thing. I have seen wreckage in my old town from a tornado that DID DERAIL ALL the LOCOMOTIVES on a train when a F5 ripped through. Very rarely happens, but never say never lol.
I Never knew ,tornado can be that deadly !
@MSGfilms... you cant turn a train around in motion. Try moving about 3000 tons at about 75mph and turn it around.
You also have to have a track to do that on.
When you see that tanker coming at high speed and sparks flying off, you feel like stopping the video, cause it looks like it's gonna blow up!
Nah thats just me driving a train in GTA
@robertgift So you'll know, this crew did not know they were moving into a violent storm. They just saw a wall of rain in front of them and no actual funnel cloud. They were not notified by Omaha that this weather condition existed, so they did their job and kept the train moving. Form their point of view, it was business as usual right up until the air blew.
I didn't know a tornado could move a heavy train off the tracks, that's some serious weight
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The weight of the locomotive kept it on the tracks, but the rest of the train didn't stand a chance.
I live in western Arkansas, and we have a healthy respect for twisters. This is why we tell newcomers it's not safe to stay in your car, or even your tractor trailer. You're safer just hugging the ground in a ditch.
Everyone thinks a tornado "touches down", but it really doesn't do that very much. Look at news footage of a flyover on a storms path. There's usually not much earth damage. Mostly the tail stays a couple feet off of the surface.Sure, the house is gone, but the basement survives. Even slab built homes still have the cement floor.
Now those big mile wide boogers can and do rip the earth some, though not deeply. They have a more dispersed airflow area, so they behave more like straight-line winds, which tend to be more ground conforming.
Just a heads up for those who haven't had the pleasure of these babies. And in this age of climate uncertainties, tornado ally could move to your home state.
Even tornadoes have to eat, ya'll...
HOLY SHIT!
amazing video! thanx for uploading this!
What is best:
Continue so the tornado passes behind the train?
or
Stop but then the cars get blown over?
Much less damage had this train been stopped and cars merely blown onto their sides.
Spectacular view of the tank car coming at us. Why wheels sparking?
Derailed? Brakes on full?
Any aerial views of the wreckage?
I seem to recall, a few years back, several railroads saying that they were establishing severe weather alert programs in their dispatch centers. The idea was the programs could alert dispatchers to severe weather alerts affecting locations along their lines so they could stop trains from entering the area until the alert was over, or make crews in the area aware of the alert so they could watch for activity and, maybe, take action to possibly avoid severe weather. From the number of trains that have been affected by severe weather, this year, what's happened to those programs? Did they get cut because Wall Street idiots say they cost too much? 😢
OMG! Look at 1:15 how the first 2-3 cars derail and then the rest of the train comes smashing into the locomotive after its stopped. This is some crazy stuff here!
That explains why there was a surveillance camera on that train..the cargo. But what a Crazy video!!!
Most, if not all, locomotives these days have 'dash cams'. It's to deal with grade crossing accidents (car gets hit by train) in court.
Well, usually the train wins, not this time. That tornado fought back
Humans...we build the most toughest indestructible machinery ever imagined....
Mother Nature...Hold my tequlia!
simulation terminated train derailed :(
that is an extremely unique video because you actually see what it's like inside of a tornado for a short moment until all the chaos occurs from it lol. the craziest part is the rest of the train coming out of the mist. i assumed the whole thing minus the engines had been derailed but that added a little bit of humor to it lol.
This is amazing. Oh,my god. I can't believe this. Wow. can't imagine that.
This train was definitely in violation of several rules. Trains are not allowed to move in areas with tornado warnings. Letting this train operate was bad enough, but over a trestle even! ...should have this dispatcher out of a job immediately, or perhaps teach him/her that weather will always win.
The tank car contained Ethylene Oxide, typically hauled as a refrigerated liquid, I doubt it would errupt so sudden, but this stuff can cause cancer when expose to heavy amounts.
There's something especially eerie about this ones.
MAN I AM BLOWN AWAY BY THIS...HAHAHAHAHA.
Thank goodness for tank car safety. I assume the train crew was okay. Wild ride if there had been a caboose crew. Thanks for this amazing video
1:25 that thing coming towards the camera, it was hell scary
Tanker: I AINT DONE WIT YOU, COME HERE
Tbh that gas trailer that was coming up almost had me having a turtle head pokin out 😦
It's a standard operating procedure on both Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe, and for obvious reason, their tracks cover several miles of tornado prone areas. Data source is TRAINS Sunset Route Article: SOP to stop trains within 20 miles of a tornado warning until an NOAA all clear is sounded. The dispatcher should have been well aware of the conditions, considering they have a constant data feed of weather systems, especially in tornado alley.
Not sure if there was a warning for this tornado. To be fair tornadoes are not expected on January 7 near the IL-WI border. There were 2 or 3 tornadoes that day. The first was not warned as I recall. Not sure if this was the first.
Awesome. At 1:09 you can hear the brake system being depressurized, that's when the first cars derailed. Seeing that tanker car coming towards the cab scared the crap out of me. Great vid.
I wasn’t expecting that at all I could feel the shocked look on my face
At first I thought this was a recent post, but it didn’t take long correct myself. Still good.
It’s hard to see but I believe that starting at 1:00 you begin to see the trees suddenly and violently be blown over which tells me that at that moment the tornado was practically on top of them approaching from the right and about to hit the train
You can hear them passing a rail road crossing at 0:47/48, and you can see the crossing light signals, if you look on the left.
that one hell of a cross wind
Kinda neat, you can hear as the air brakes engage when the lines break just before the (grain/hopper?) car is pulled off by a trailing car. Then the tanker leading the rest of the momentum forward, was expecting the engine to get pulverized but it seemed to only be struck a glancing blow.
@charlieb640 I guess the 70 ton locomotive was not moved by the strong winds
I agree. I couldn't tell if it the engineer bailed off the independent...but...I also agree that dragging a hopper car will bring you to a stop very quickly...brakes on or off.
THis kinda reminded me of 'Unstoppable" anywho, I expected an explosion :l
A tornado- the only thing more powerful than a locomotive. Damn that was freaky.
A 747 jet is more powerful than a locomotive
It sure makes you wonder, when you see cars in excess of 40 tons flying like a feathers in the air.
Since a tornado is supposed to sound like a freight train, and if you are driving a train at the time, then how would you know that the tornado was coming?
being a trainman and engineer myself, I would really hope that the crew on board this train did NOT have any kind of advance warning for wind or tornado..........If so the entire accident would be blamed on them all trains must stop when given a high wind warning and especially a tornado warning
I don't believe there was a tornado warning. This was January 7, 2008 in extreme northern Illinois.
They DO weigh millions of pounds. Do the math! At an average weight of 128 tons, just four cars would weigh over a million pounds. A train of moderate length is easily many million pounds.
The train: Casually going down the tracks.
The tornado: I’m about to end this mans whole career.
Also the tornado: Crashes the train.
The trains freight cars: Already derailed.
The train when it stops: Phew. That was a close one.
The tanker car with the rest of the freight cars:
I wOkE uP iN a NeW bUgAtTi!
Also the tanker: Pwns the engines.
After the wreckage:
*TF2 your team looses music intensifies*
Awesome video, thanks for posting!
Not all tank cars carry explosive chemicals, that one had hydraulic fluid residue in it.
The poor farmer cruising along the frontage road in his tractor didnt do as well.
That’s some amazing Graphics for the train simulator
No, it's surveillance video from Jan 1 2008.
This is the kind of s**t you see in your dreams. Good lord, this actually happened.