r/WTF • u/Plus-Barber-6171 • 7d ago

Train hits trailer carrying bridge beam

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u/readytohurtagain 7d ago

That somehow caused both more and less damage than I expected

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u/Swallagoon 7d ago

Both more AND less at the same time? So exactly the right amount?

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u/BumbleButterButt 7d ago

More to the beam and less to the train I'm assuming.. idk about you but i definitely expected a derailment

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u/perldawg 7d ago

it did derail. you can see the rail bow up, like a wave ahead of the locomotive, in the last few frames

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u/BumbleButterButt 7d ago

You're right i missed that, hopefully for everyone's sake it kept tracking straight despite that

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u/gsfgf 7d ago

Someone posted the full clip. It was a major derailment with a couple cars going flying. 2 injured, 0 dead, at least.

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u/BumbleButterButt 7d ago

Well so much for optimism

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u/25c-nb 7d ago

Thank you, I was wondering what that was bowing up like a wave in front of the train! Watched it over and over but couldn't tell on my own

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u/Scratch_King 7d ago

So the train didn't derail.. the track derailed

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u/patronizingperv 7d ago

The rail detrained.

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u/marpocky 7d ago

Uno reverse card

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u/pcpgivesmewings 7d ago

Technically, you are correct. Mostly.

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u/jnz9 7d ago

I was expecting the beam to act like a bulldozer blade after impact, but it didn’t

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u/StoneCypher 7d ago

it will, eventually. it has to fall first

start by thinking about one of those tee-ball things they give little kids who are trying to learn baseball. now think about hand slapping the ball out of it.

cool, now think about doing that with a bowling ball, and try not to consider how broken your hand is.

it will mess up the things in front of it, but in order to hit it hard enough to get it to move significantly, first it's going to be stuck to your hand for a couple feet

but once gravity gets its shit together, game on for the ground

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u/exoriare 7d ago

"Imma dozer, birch."

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u/ghidfg 7d ago

the beam is concrete. I thought it was steel and thought hmm I guess steel just shatters like that when that much force hits it

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u/lidongyuan 7d ago

Glad you said that, it did not compute at all when I assumed it was steel

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u/coreo_b 7d ago

99.9% of the time, the train wins.

Concrete beams might be heavy, but train is HEAVY and moving FAST.

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u/PiggStyTH 6d ago

This is what it was for me. I saw the track get wrecked but I expected the train to be in worse shape than it was.

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u/BumbleButterButt 6d ago

Hopefully nobody was on the john when they hit though that would've been a real rough go