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WW2 Train De-Railment Experiment.

submitted by Barseps

1 decade 2 years 8 months 4 weeks ago

YouTube Description:- "In March 1944 the United States National Defense Resources Committee & Office of Strategic Services performed a number of experiments on the Claiborne-Polk military railroad to help determine the best way to derail trains. The results were presented in the film "Derailment".

The film discusses amount of explosive used, technique of making "gaps" in railroad track to overturn train. Uses filmographic techniques such as slow motion, reverse motion, and freeze frame to show effects of "gaps" and explosives on train and results of experiments. Illustrated arrows point to areas of train considered especially relevant to experiment. Narrator explains each type of explosive and reason for variations."

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*quality vintage mythbusters

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by Ornthoron.

That would be *vintage.

Adding video to channels (Vintage) - requested by Ornthoron.

Wow, who knew it would be so hard.

The narration in this confuses the stereotype I hold of of early 20th century videos. The narrators speech is almost modern. Anyone else get that impression?

That's what.......................................SHE SAID!

>> ^Boise_Lib:

Wow, who knew it would be so hard.

>> ^artician:

The narration in this confuses the stereotype I hold of of early 20th century videos. The narrators speech is almost modern. Anyone else get that impression?

I think you'll find the voice over has been redone... I'm guessing it's word for word the same as the original, but a new recording. The opening portion of the movie has scratches aplenty on the audio which then disappear.

therealblankman

Well that was fascinating as hell. Remember when we were kids and we thought you could de-rail a train by putting a penny on the tracks? Sheesh.

You could still derail it with 7" gap. Just move the track sideways.

Or put a penny on the track

My friend and I used to put rocks on the track. One of the rocks shot out and hit my friend in the side of the face. He wasn't looking and thought I'd punched him. Hilarity ensued. Derailment did not.

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