This video clip provides very little information as to its purpose, and its title's in Russian, so I'm not sure precisely what's going on. I think it's a series of tests of what happens when a train impacts vehicles and loads of various kinds, to see how they react and what sort of penetration of the train/engine takes place. The music is ghastly, but the images are certainly interesting. I suggest watching it in full-screen mode, with the sound turned off.
Some pretty impressive impacts there . . .
Peter
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I think I've seen this video before, or at least a version without the brain-hemhorage-inducing music.
IIRC, it's crash-test footage shot by EMD in the 1970s while they were developing the then-new "Safety Cab" locomotive design.
Possible shot at the Transportation Technology Center, Pueblo, CO
http://fastlane.dot.gov/2010/08/you-may-know-that-the-department-has-employees-and-facilities-spread-across-the-country-but-one-of-the-most-interesting-plac.html#.UTllMNYs_vg
At about 5:20, the cab has the D.O.T. logo on the side (Dept. of Transportation). Interesting...
Well, that's *one* way to split logs...
Your grandchildren's tax dollars at "work" right there.....
There's an amazing video up on youtube of a train being hit by a tornado. The view is out of the back of the locomotive - some of the closer cars get blown over, the loco stops, and the the rest of the train just keeps coming - and coming. The moving mass of a train is pretty incredible.
The music is frikken hilarious. It reminds me of the soundtrack of '70s tv shows.
Yep, it's a DOT test. I remember seeing something like this years ago dealing with engine safety...
Title says "crash test journey."
MichigammeDave
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