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Thats a long trailer that truck is pulling. You can see the driver running to the back of the trailer, he sure is lucky. I like the reaction of the guy on the flatbed.
franktrain
If there was ever a quantified reason (instead of me just being naturally leery of NG powered vehicles)... there you go. I've often wondered how explosive they would be in certain crash situations. Now I vividly see.
By contrast, a train I was backing had a point collision with a truck that disregarded the flagman and "thought" he could clear the tracks. He didn't. It was at about the same speed (or less), and after it was all said and done, it was a basic "non-issue" crossing accident. (No injuries, no severe damage to the truck/trailer, no damage to the rail car.) Only result was the truck driver received his customary "Failed To Yield" ticket for getting himself hit by a train.
Hope the ground crewman riding the point of the above move wasn't severely burned.
Wow, quite the blast.
I can't wait until the first LNG power locomotive set with one of those big tank cars is breached. I don't know if the cabs will be explosion proof.
As it is now, regular LNG tank cars loaded can be no closer than the 6 car from an locomotive.
I will be retiring in a few months and I am glad I will not have to work on them.
After all, look at the current tank cars for hauling crude oil. Not explosion proof yet.
I would guess the only thing to take a hit and not split would be those nuclear cask cars that I have hauled a few times.
Dan
One lucky guy!
That is more like "Truck Hits Train."
Originally Posted by laming:
Hope the ground crewman riding the point of the above move wasn't severely burned.
It looks like he saw the collision coming and dropped off the car about 20 feet before they hit. I'm with you. Hope he could run fast.
Now that's what I call spontaneous combustion! It looked like something out of a Michael Bay movie!
Another CSX Train and truck collide outside General Mills plant in Bufallo NY for the 2nd time in a month.
http://www.wkbw.com/news/train...-general-mills-plant
2015 and another dangerous crossing without crossing gates?
$$$$ is what it's all about.
