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[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That's some serious ice layers if it not only derails a train but supports its weight over to the road.

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[–] hihellobyeoh@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That's a railroad crossing, it isn't free driving.

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[–] InputZero@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago

It's difficult to see because of the compression noise but it looks like the train is on the tracks. The tracks are just so covered with ice it looks like there are no tracks. Snow and ice are nothing to a train, leaves on the other hand can make tracks dangerous.

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[–] ExLisper@linux.community 15 points 2 years ago

I've seen a documentary about a train making a year long route around the entire world during ice age and it was still able to break though the ice. This is just bad engineering.

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[–] You999@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

The contact patch of the wheels on a train is roughly 90,000 PSI of vertical pressure. You need a lot of ice to derail a train.

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