Train Accident Caught on Tape, 2 Angles (VIDEO)

**longbrick** · 02-17-2005, 07:57 AM

how lucky is that truck driver

**media** · 02-17-2005, 08:01 AM

How convenient for the cameraman... Wonder how much he sold the video footage for.. lol

**MikeB** · 02-17-2005, 08:07 AM

what were the odds? great footage.

**After Shock Media** · 02-17-2005, 08:10 AM

Originally posted by longbrick

how lucky is that truck driver

Screw the truck driver, imagine being the train engineer. He gets to see the impact coming for abit and can do nothing to prevent it.

**MaDalton** · 02-17-2005, 08:11 AM

Originally posted by MikeB_CE

Gasper Medina told The Associated Press that he set up the cameras at the intersection to document the danger at the rail crossing.

i would call that a proof

**David!** · 02-17-2005, 08:15 AM

wtf
I get a video about a porn video being played in a school closed circuit tv.

**MikeB** · 02-17-2005, 08:16 AM

Originally posted by PussyMan

wtf
I get a video about a porn video being played in a school closed circuit tv.

look on the left, there is a button for the train accident video..they rotate three stories there.

**David!** · 02-17-2005, 08:18 AM

Originally posted by MikeB_CE

look on the left, there is a button for the train accident video..they rotate three stories there.

I see it now, it must have been the lack of coffee, lol.
Now, that train hits a semi and just blows it up and does not derail. How come did those 2 trains derailed and killed 10 people when that loser guy tried to commit suicide?

**DeadFidel** · 02-17-2005, 08:24 AM

gotta love the promo/ad.." get your teeth whiter"..now watch a train reck

**MikeB** · 02-17-2005, 08:25 AM

Originally posted by PussyMan

I see it now, it must have been the lack of coffee, lol.
Now, that train hits a semi and just blows it up and does not derail. How come did those 2 trains derailed and killed 10 people when that loser guy tried to commit suicide?

This trailer only had 155 one gallon drums of strawberries, not a lot of mass. Also, it appears to hit pretty squarly in the middle of the light trailer, lucky for everyone in and around the accident.

This train had an engine at the front, it wasn't being pushed, it was being pulled.

The problem with the Metrolink crash is that they only have one engine on the train, on the north end. So its a regular passenger car on the front with a small cab for the engineer controls when they travel south.

When the first train car hits something like a vehicle, it is a lot easier for the train to derail, because the train car doesn't weigh nearly as much as a train engine, nor does it have the big "cow pushers".

This is a great example of how having an engine in the front can better protect the train and its passengers. The Amtrak engine did come separated from the cars but did not derail in this video.

In the Metrolink crash, the first train derailed, and then sideswiped a passing Metrolink train coming in the opposite direction, and also plowed into a parked train.

If Metrolink put engines at the front of all their trains, they would increase the safety for everyone.

**CaroMark** · 02-17-2005, 08:30 AM

WoW, that is amazing footage!

I am also surprised that it doesn't appear to have damaged the train more, a semi-trailer like that has a pretty significant undercarriage.

**MikeB** · 02-17-2005, 08:35 AM

Looks like they were 55 gallong drums to me, not 155 gallon drums lol

**X37375787** · 02-17-2005, 08:42 AM

nice pics! the amtrac seems to be virtually unharmed

**cool1** · 02-17-2005, 08:47 AM

That was wicked footage.
Lucky driver

**David!** · 02-17-2005, 09:02 AM

Originally posted by MikeB_CE

This trailer only had 155 one gallon drums of strawberries, not a lot of mass. Also, it appears to hit pretty squarly in the middle of the light trailer, lucky for everyone in and around the accident.

This train had an engine at the front, it wasn't being pushed, it was being pulled.

The problem with the Metrolink crash is that they only have one engine on the train, on the north end. So its a regular passenger car on the front with a small cab for the engineer controls when they travel south.

When the first train car hits something like a vehicle, it is a lot easier for the train to derail, because the train car doesn't weigh nearly as much as a train engine, nor does it have the big "cow pushers".

This is a great example of how having an engine in the front can better protect the train and its passengers. The Amtrak engine did come separated from the cars but did not derail in this video.

In the Metrolink crash, the first train derailed, and then sideswiped a passing Metrolink train coming in the opposite direction, and also plowed into a parked train.

If Metrolink put engines at the front of all their trains, they would increase the safety for everyone.

Yes, it makes sense.
In Florida, they also are talking about making the trains run with the engine at the front, however the train company says that it takes 30 minutes to switch.

**Denis_SC** · 02-17-2005, 09:07 AM

Originally posted by MikeB_CE

what were the odds? great footage.

I think the guy just had a camera with him at that moment and saw it was coming ...

**MikeB** · 02-17-2005, 11:14 AM

close,

he was there filming the train crossing for a piece he was doing on it, great timing, gotta love that.

**V_RocKs** · 02-25-2005, 07:58 AM

Originally posted by DeadFidel

gotta love the promo/ad.." get your teeth whiter"..now watch a train reck

I ONLY fucked 2 of these 4

**kmanrox** · 02-25-2005, 08:14 AM

all i get at that link is a piece on Mennonites ?

**DeadFidel** · 02-25-2005, 08:32 AM

Originally posted by V_RocKs

Thanks for the honor bro..hehe, didn't think I was worth the time.

**Basic_man** · 02-25-2005, 08:35 AM

Fuck, I can't see the video on the news website

**BuggyG** · 02-25-2005, 09:04 AM

Originally posted by Lord of the fungi

Screw the truck driver, imagine being the train engineer. He gets to see the impact coming for abit and can do nothing to prevent it.

the old duck & cover song comes to mind!

**SmokeyTheBear** · 02-25-2005, 09:13 AM

WTF it sayd mennonite mob ??

**bringer** · 02-25-2005, 09:17 AM

Originally posted by SmokeyTheBear

WTF it sayd mennonite mob ??

old link
V_RocKs keeps bumping old threads with that shitty photochop

**sickkittens** · 02-25-2005, 10:07 AM

Is it not loading for anyone else?

Train Accident Caught on Tape, 2 Angles (VIDEO)

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