Locomotive Crash Videos

[Boomer Red]

     I was playing around a while ago and found this webpage with some crazy videos of crash tests being done on a locomotive. Too bad there is no sound! 

http://www.fra.dot.gov/us/content/2004

 

[randyaj]

That is so cool!  I will have to show this to my wife, so that she will stop wanting to ram my model trains head on!

Randy

[killer dragonoz]

that was cool to watch be a plus with sound

[JasonH]

That's some pretty rowdy stuff!

[fafnir242]

I don't know how they can consider that test accurate.  They claimed that the test locomotive was an SD70MAC.  It's clearly an SD45T-2 with an SD70MAC cab built on to it.  Wouldn't there be a different kind of impact between the two different locomotives, or would it still have the same effect.  Watch test two, and you'll clearly see the tunnel motor.  I don't know if anyone else saw this or not.  If you did, excuse me for obnoxiously pointing out the obvious.lol

[Boomer Red]

 I imagine that the unit was modified to be as close in weight to an SD70MAC as possible. Still since the cab seemed to be the main point of interest in the the test they probably didn't really care what it was attached to. One thing that did suprise me is just how well the anticlimber worked in the video with the flatcar.I wonder if tests like this were done when CN was ordering it's original widecab units back in the seventies?

[csxengineer98]

I don't know how they can consider that test accurate.  They claimed that the test locomotive was an SD70MAC.  It's clearly an SD45T-2 with an SD70MAC cab built on to it.  Wouldn't there be a different kind of impact between the two different locomotives, or would it still have the same effect.  Watch test two, and you'll clearly see the tunnel motor.  I don't know if anyone else saw this or not.  If you did, excuse me for obnoxiously pointing out the obvious.lol

the tests is question where done to test the new wide cab design that EMD was devloping at the time..(what became the wide cab on new EMD units).. and no it wouldnt have bearing on if it was a sd 40..a tunnel motor.. or even and sd 9 with that type of cab configeration on it..since it was the cab  itself that was being  crash tested in differnt types of "what if" situations to see how well it held up for crew safty and servivablitity.. if you notice in one of the clips there as even a test of a engineers front air bag...

csx engineer 

[fafnir242]

I don't know how they can consider that test accurate.  They claimed that the test locomotive was an SD70MAC.  It's clearly an SD45T-2 with an SD70MAC cab built on to it.  Wouldn't there be a different kind of impact between the two different locomotives, or would it still have the same effect.  Watch test two, and you'll clearly see the tunnel motor.  I don't know if anyone else saw this or not.  If you did, excuse me for obnoxiously pointing out the obvious.lol

the tests is question where done to test the new wide cab design that EMD was devloping at the time..(what became the wide cab on new EMD units).. and no it wouldnt have bearing on if it was a sd 40..a tunnel motor.. or even and sd 9 with that type of cab configeration on it..since it was the cab  itself that was being  crash tested in differnt types of "what if" situations to see how well it held up for crew safty and servivablitity.. if you notice in one of the clips there as even a test of a engineers front air bag...

csx engineer 

Okay, I was beginning to wonder.  I probably should have figured they were just testing the cab design.  I feel like an idiot now.lol