The Train vs. the Tornado

[diesteldorf]

I apologize if this was already posted elsewhere.

Someone sent it to me via email and I thought I would share.

Mods feel free to move if necessary.

This is wild. watch the trees in the background. Here is something you do not see too often.

This video came from a fellow who works for the RR as a train dispatcher.

Every once in a while he sends a cool video involving trains. This is one of them.

Trains nowadays mount cameras in their cabs, facing forward and backward, the same way police cars do.

This video is a rearview camera. This is video of a train that ran through a tornado..

First there is the normal rearview from the last of three engines, with the trees looking normal.

http://d.yimg.com/kq/groups/7769081/124862335/name/Tornado1.wmv

I can't attest to its legitimacy, but it looks real.

 

[Anderson]

Well, I know one way to find out: We've got a clear car ID from the middle of the video (as the cars are going over). Anybody got info on car UP 7195(5?)?

Edit: Also NS 63356X (the X being an indecipherable number on the car side).

Edit: Ok, might have info on the tornado in question: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lot/?n=20080107tor

 

[AlanB]

That video has been around for a while. I'm pretty sure that it was posted here before, but I know for sure that I've seen it before.