Beached Limo vs. Train

From The Truth About Cars:

The clip above, shot this past weekend, features a stretched Chrysler 300 beached on a railway crossing and unable to move as a train barrels down the tracks in its direction.

Instead of saying “You won’t believe what happens next!!!” like BuzzFeed Autos, I’d like to congratulate the builder of that stretched gangster mobile.

Why?

For starters, when you stretch a vehicle, you typically do it at the expense of its structural integrity. Secondly, if that train’s weight is likely measured in millions of pounds. While the train might not be moving incredibly fast, that’s a lot of force going into the side of a limo, a vehicle that should have less structural integrity than on the car it’s based.

Yet, this limo, against all odds, still looks like a limo at the end of its long trip down the tracks in front of the train’s cow catcher.
ulysses1904jokingly says...

I don't understand why he just didn't stop, he must have seen them waving at him.

Seriously, unless they only just got stuck on the tracks a minute or two earlier who wouldn't think to have people run in both directions down the tracks to try to head this off. But I wasn't there so I wouldn't know.

Ashenkasesays...

So the freight train is coming around a bend. The drivers line of sight doesn't let him know that there is a car on the tracks until its too late to effectively break. Having people down the tracks waving a red flag would have given him no context as to what was ahead. People do weird stuff around trains, the driver probably would have thought it was just some foamers wanting him to blow the whistle.

hazmat22says...

I counted maybe 14 cars that went past the crossing, plus the 2 engines, that could be 800' it took it to stop. If he had applied the emergency brakes he still wouldn't have been able to stop in time and probably would have caused damaged to either the wheels, track or both. He was going relatively slowly (it was a populated area with crossings) to stop that quickly with 10k ton behind..

I wonder if they have training and stats on how everyone in their right mind would be long gone from a vehicle that's been stuck any length of time.

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