US Freight train hits US Military Vehicle

[Ploughman]

From the BBC Web news pages.

Watch: US freight train crashes into military vehicle

Dash cam footage shows the moment a freight train crashes into a Howitzer in South Carolina.

www.bbc.co.uk

Dash cam footage shows the moment a freight train crashes into a military vehicle in Goose Creek, South Carolina.

According to local media reports, the crash happened on Thursday afternoon when a lowboy trailer carrying a US Army M109 Howitzer got stuck on the tracks.

 

[randyrippley]

Well...... That's one that's not going to Ukraine.

 

[EyeKay]

it’s just fortunate that the train hit the front of the trailer rather than the howitzer directly. Would have been a more serious collision.

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There is another video that was on mailonline earlier today that showed the truck driver jumping out of his cab seconds before the train hit. Hopefully nobody got injured.

 

[GatwickDepress]

There's even a warning sign about using low-loaders or other low-slung vehicles on the level crossing that the driver had passed.

It's good that nobody was hurt, but I don't believe it's the first time a lorry has got stuck there.

 

[Western Lord]

Now you know why US locomotives have to be built like tanks.

 

[HSTEd]

It appears the traverse gear on the Howitzer's turret shears under the force of the collision, which is why it is left spinning like that

It will not be a cheap repair!
The barrel is certainly a write off as it will have been bent out of specification. Honestly, that might be the more impactful issue given the current shortage of 155mm gun tubes.

 

[Ailsa_Craig]

It appears the traverse gear on the Howitzer's turret shears under the force of the collision, which is why it is left spinning like that

It will not be a cheap repair!
The barrel is certainly a write off as it will have been bent out of specification. Honestly, that might be the more impactful issue given the current shortage of 155mm gun tubes.

I remember some years ago seeing the aftermath of a collision involving low boy at Melrose NM. A couple of weeks later I found the locomotive involved, BNSF 4102,with significant cab damage, which was subsequently repaired. They say that lightning doesn't strike twice, but earlier in its career it was involved in a major wreck in Matfield Green, KS and was sent to Mexico for repairs