Train Derails in Tornado

[Mr Fixit]

This video was shown in the Herald Sun newspaper here in Melbourne, Australia during the week and shows a freight train travelling through Boone and Mc Henry counties in Illinois. The video was taken by the Black Box camera located in the cab of the rear facing locomotive.
Watch for the white tank car and brace for impact!
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A couple of things surprised me about this video. I thought engineers were under instructions to halt trains in proximity to tornados as its easier to clean up a toppled train than a train derailed at speed. The approach speed of the white tank car also proves the point as I am assuming that the train went into emergency as cars began to topple.

Mark

If the names Boone and Mc Henry counties sound familiar it is because they are two of the counties Jake and Elwood Blues drove through with the civil defence speaker mounted on the roof of the Bluesmobile to promote the concert at the Palace Hotel Ballroom in the first Blues Brothers movie.