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Interesting video.... F3 tornado crosses path with train

Proof that not everything that tangos with a train looses.

Proof that railroad engineers should be trained in the proper operation of their equipment during tornadoes. It was reckless and stupid to continue through the storm.

Their procedure should be:

Stop the train.

Dump the air from the train.

Uncouple the locomotives, and move them out of the immediate area of the tank cars.

I would love to be able top speak to their safety foreman to see what he thinks.

The initial derailments might have still occurred, but the subsequent sh*t storm of derailed hazmat might have been avoided. The rail cars that were blown sideways could have been righted easily, without collateral damage to the roadbed and trees, etc.