Video: Train Drives Into A Tornado and Derails

This is video from a train's "black box camera" on the locomotive that drove into the January 7, 2008 tornado in Boone and McHenry counties in Illinois


At 0:35 seconds into the video you can see the rain begin. At the 1:00 minute mark- you can see the trees along each side of the tracks bending in increasingly high wind.

At 1:09- the railcar directly in front of the camera (behind the engine) begins tipping to the left- and the derailment begins.

At 1:23 in the clip- you can see the actual tornado funnel swirling to the upper right of the frame. You may want to replay this a few times- as at the same time a de-wheeled tanker car comes hurtling toward the locomotive's camera!


The freight train with over 100 cars derailed near Harvard- IL- creating a major haz-mat incident.

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