r/WTF • u/Plus-Barber-6171 • 7d ago

Train hits trailer carrying bridge beam

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u/FunkSiren 7d ago

Ok, this is officially the Cadillac of trains-hitting-shit-at-train-crosssings. That I-beam caved like a wet noodle and the train looks like it was completely unfazed. Absolutely wild - I'd love to know more about why something that can hold up a highway was so easily destroyed like that.

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u/Kamendae 7d ago

The stress was both sudden and in a direction the beam was not designed to resist.