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Title: Tornado derails freight train. Post by: JayMac on July 13, 2009, 06:34:27 Not the UKs newest steam loco, but a category F3 tornado in the US
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azV5bC2br-Q I'll add that there were no reported casualties, although 196 nearby residents were evacuated because of 1 'Hazmat' vehicle in the consist. Title: Re: Tornado derails freight train. Post by: Not from Brighton on July 13, 2009, 22:31:03 Interesting, thanks.
Title: Re: Tornado derails freight train. Post by: 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01 on July 14, 2009, 00:52:14 you know how to get views with headlines dont you! ;D
Title: Re: Tornado derails freight train. Post by: JayMac on July 14, 2009, 02:32:50 you know how to get views with headlines dont you! ;D Hehe....I even considered just posting the link and nothing else. Truth is I was trawling YouTube for clips of 60613 Tornado and like many I saw the headline and thought 'ooh, that's news to me'. Good job really that it was a freight train. If that tornado had hit a FGW 142/143 it would flown right out of Kansas and ended up somewhere over the rainbow with a bunch of Munchkins gathered round... This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |