Train Wreck: Watch A Slow Motion Nightmare Unfold Right In Front Of The Camera


Train Wreck: Watch A Slow Motion Nightmare Unfold Right In Front Of The Camera

We’ve largely been brainwashed by the movie industry to think of a train derailment as a high speed nightmare or epic proportions. While those have undoubtedly happened, most of the time (as we have showed you here) trains come off the tracks at lower speeds. While the cleanup and recovery operations are of major scope, the fact is that way more train calamities happen at low speed than they do at full bore. Take this video for example.

Train people may think that us car guys and girls are weird for shooting video and photos of machines driving in and out of car shows but the reality is that we don’t get the whole situation where train enthusiasts take video of locomotives creeping along the tracks or across crossings. Granted, without them we would not have footage like you are about to see below but we’re not sure what the attraction is in watching the lumbering bastards trundle along at slow speeds.

You will see and hear this train creeping along and then the unmistakable sound of skidding steel on steel screeching as the brakes get applied in some sort of emergency fashion. About 3o seconds after that you can hear the guy filming start to narrate the situation. A couple of cars jump the tracks are are being dragged along the ground before starting to topple over, pulling cars both fore and aft over with them. The dude running the camera proclaims “Train Wreck!” as the whole thing is grinding to a halt.

You’ve gotta feel for the engineer because he or she likely has to get on the radio and make a call that will have a lot of paperwork following it. Hopefully that paperwork did not include a pink slip for the man or woman operating the train.

Press play below to see it go really, wrong for this engineer – Train Wreck!


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