Railway Train Derailment and Train Collision is Scary!

Train derailments are never fun affairs. Whether it’s one car or the entire length of the train that jumps the track, there’s usually a monumental cleanup involved to return the railways to fully functional status. What’s worse is when a derailment occurs beside a parallel track and there’s another train passing through, as this almost certainly will result in both trains leaving the rails.

That scenario is exactly what we see in this video, which was posted by the National Transportation Safety Board on their YouTube channel, which shows a grain train headed west when a single car topples over. The train begins braking and actually slows to a stop relatively quickly for a fully loaded train. However, the eastbound crude oil train isn’t quite quick enough in getting stopped and plows into the overturned grain car, which sends the crude oil train’s locomotive and no telling how many subsequent cars off into the snowy bank along the track. The subsequent radio chatter details the growing panic, as the conductor realizes there is a fire, the last thing you want when your cargo is a train full of crude oil.

This footage is definitely intense, and appears to be used for training for future incidents to help avoid similar incidents.