Train Vs Tornado. Place your bets now!

[Roy Mustang]

January 7, 2008 ...The tornado started at 3:30 pm about 1.2 miles north of Poplar Grove in Boone county and ended at 3:48 pm about 3.2 miles north northeast of Harvard in McHenry county.

The tornado then moved across the Chicago and Northwestern railroad where it blew 12 railroad freight cars off the track. The train was moving at the time the tornado hit it...so as the main engine stopped...the remaining cars on the track continued along it and slammed into the front part of the train. This caused a few more cars to derail...including one containing hazardous materials that caused the evacuation of the town of Lawrence.

Train vs Tornado

Rare January Tornado Hits Northern Illinois

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[ADXC]

Woah, I don't usually hear of fights between trains and tornados.

[Paul]

Whoa!

[Mr. Rogers]

Now for the real question:

Mike Ditka or a tornado...named Mike Ditka. Who would win?

[Shao Feng-Li]

God: Infinity +1

Man: -Infinty -1

Dang, I didn't know tornadoes could do such things.

[Paul]

Oh yes! I got chased by one about twelve years ago near Weston Mo. They can level a house and think nothing of it.

[Tsukuyomi]

I still have the same reaction to that video.. Poor train 8(

Yeah, we would get storms at weird time of the year O.O It's scary because it's still winter and here we are having thunder storms/tornadoes >_> Night storms are the creepiest O.O

[Fish and Chips]

If a tornado touches down in Boone County at 3:30 PM heading north at 12 MPH till it hits McHenry, with a train heading across the space between them at 70 MPH, how long before disparaging comments appear on the Internet?

[KhakiBlueSocks]

[font="Trebuchet MS"][SIZE="4"][color="RoyalBlue"]It's a blessing that the train didn't explode or anything. Down here, trains carry just about every kind of chemical you can think of. If one of them derailed and with a rogue spark...boom.[/color][/SIZE][/font]