They should have a logic test.. maybe ask for a university degree before hiring truck drivers... the kill to many people and waste a lot of tome and mo ey cause of their brain power
There is a track crossing near me that was repaved recently that consisted of just pouring more concrete on top of the old. A lowboy got stuck on it shortly after the road was opened again.
Seen one that got stuck destroy the road crossing. Asked county dispatch to contact the railroad. In hindsight I could’ve looked for the sign and called myself.
You are correct I believe that as more technology has been introduced into vehicles it has made the drivers less aware of their surroundings now they will believe the little voice coming out of the dashboard before they will trust their own eyes and ears. Truly a sad state of affairs.
The driver was off route. Overdimensional/overweight loads are permitted and those permits come with designated routes including times of day restrictions so things like that don't happen. This driver was incompetent and endangered, not only his cargo and himself but the greater public at large.
If the train would've hit the tank center mass it is very likely there would've been a catastrophic derailment
Note:
That was approximately a 50 ton stationary object made of densely compacted steel and that train smacked it like a fly.
In our state, detouring off of the permitted Over Sized Over Weight route will cost you like $20,000+, and that’s peanuts if the state has to fix a road that some dumbass destroyed for a shortcut.
The price tag for hitting a train is likely way higher.
Right on, i'm pretty sure in Abram's tank is well over 1 million not to mention a locomotive engine. I'm gonna venture to say the $2 million bonded policy the tractor is required to have is going to be inadequate very likely some type of jail time for the driver.
This is not a 66 ton Abrams tank in the video (Abrams was never 50t), it's a 38 ton M109 Paladin.
That is basically a 155mm howitzer, so an artillery piece for indirect fire, on tracks with light armor. It has the same mobility as a tank and is protected against shrapnel from enemy artillery and bombs and small arms fire, but any larger armament like a 25mm autocannon will go straight through its armor. I do admit both look very similar at first glance, so it's easy to misidentify them.
Also you are very far off on the cost.
TLDR: Abrams seems to be at around 15-20 million dollars per tank, the M109 as seen here seems to sit at roughly 7 million.
When it was introduced back in 1979, an M1A1 Abrams cost 4.3 million dollars to produce, adjusted for inflation that would be 10.6 million today, and they have only become more expensive since then due to a lot of upgrades, increased wages etc. The export cost of an M1A2 SEPv3 in 2022 was 24 million, though domestic cost for the US army likely is lower. The M109 Paladin as depicted in this video cost around 14.4 million in 2014 at the start of the production run of the A7 version, as of 2020 that cost seems to have dropped to 7 million. Due to the way these vehicles are procured, and exact number is just not possible to tell, it's not something that sits on a shelf in a store and has a fixed price tag.
This is correct. I live near where this occurred and am familiar with the area.
The driver needed to go down one more intersection and this would have never occurred. However, a lot of people avoid that road (Red Bank Rd) due to construction that had been going on for years. A lot of people take other roads (Montague Plantation Blvd and Liberty Hall Rd) to avoid this. That avoidance influenced standard GPS. This was the Liberty Hall light at Goose Creek Blvd. The railroad crossings get reworked constantly due to the heavy rail traffic, and the last few itterations did result in steep grades. There ARE warning signs for this exact reason.
Yea..the driver really fucked up. You don't happen to know what happened to that Driver you I would be interested to hear what became of him for the disaster
That's because it's a self-propelled howitzer and not a tank. It's made from rolled aluminum alloy providing very little protection and is only thick enough to protect its crew from shrapnel and small-arms fire.
I would add that for their intended role that’s all that requires. They are meant to be firing their 155mm at things that can’t see them or at the very least who have a hard time shooting back.
Their biggest threat is other artillery which is the shrapnel that they are defended against.
If they are say being shot at directly by something with a cannon or autocannon. . . Something has gone very seriously wrong. Though they still aren’t unlikely to win because few things cab take being even near missed by a 155mm shell
Sure, it won’t get through the armor. . . Doesn’t mean the tank still works or you’re not having a very, very bad day inside of what just turned into a large bell
Scribd wants me to subscibe so that is very difficult to read, though it doesn't seem like they are for the most part talking about modern MBTs, it is also from 2002 so it can only be about so modern of tanks. Modernized versions of things like the Abrams and Leopard 2 can take an incredible amount of explosive power.
Naval gun APHE of similar weight and velocity to modern 155mm in the WW2 era also couldn't always get through the levels of armor at least the frontal slope of a MBT has. Like at best they were, at point blank range, they could penetrate maybe 12". There is also for example the the 155mm M1, an ancestor to the current 155mm guns in US service now like the M109, and it's APHE hell at 500 yards could go through about 8".
There's a reason when navies wanted to get through armor like that is on modern tanks they stepped up the caliber significantly, and why even though now we're talking about modern MBT with guns 120mm or over they still need APFSDS to reliably defeat enemy armor. HE will do a lot of damage, but penetration is not assured
I’m sorry for that. I’ve never had a problem with it and never signed up.
The hulls of an Abrams and a Leopard are not radically better than they were in 2002.
You’re talking about the best and thickest parts of a tank’s armor. The front, and turret sides. I’m talking about most of a tank’s armor. Much of a modern tank is MUCH less than 12” armor. Much of it is right around there. We lost an M1 to an RPG round going through the hull, after going under the skirts, and the max penetration of the round used is only 12”. It got a mobility kill just the same.
The engine compartment has armor so thin and spare that we have a chance to get small arms into it. Tanks just aren’t as impervious as people think. The hulls and backs are not incredibly robust like the fronts are.
Indeed other than the front a 155mm will likely just destroy whatever part of the tank it hits. You said “any”, so I was going off of the max, and I will admit I’m not that familiar with how modern appliqué armor might affect this type of thing
There was one very interesting report that I saw from a Bradley about how in Iraq they had misidentified a friendly Abrams for an Iraqi tank from behind and proceeded to use the 25mm to wreck the engine of the Abrams before they realized their mistake.
Indeed other than the front a 155mm will likely just destroy whatever part of the tank it hits. You said “any”, so I was going off of the max, and I will admit I’m not that familiar with how modern appliqué armor might affect this type of thing
Sorry if I wasn’t clear that I was talking about two things.
The artillery piece in OP will penetrate any armor on any tank that “it can see.” As in, for which it can place direct fires, which it can shoot directly, as a normal rifle does. If a 155 shell hits a tank directly, the survivability of the tank is far from guaranteed. The round can glance off, lots of things can happen, but it’s going to be a problem. As one of my tanker buddies says, I don’t want my tank to get hit with it.
With artillery shells landing in and around a tank, with indirect fires, the shrapnel will penetrate much of a tank’s armor. They’ve just run out of the ability to carry more weight in the form of hull armor. One of the key aspects of the SEPv4 and other programs was to remove the copper wiring and replace it with fiber optic, to save a few tons, it’s such a major issue.
There was one very interesting report that I saw from a Bradley about how in Iraq they had misidentified a friendly Abrams for an Iraqi tank from behind and proceeded to use the 25mm to wreck the engine of the Abrams before they realized their mistake.
Yes, the 25mm on our Brad’s is more effective than many people gave us credit for. At least until the Ukrainians took on a Russian tank (a T-90?) and knocked it out, forcing the surviving crew to ditch. A single AP or HE round will penetrate the exhaust armor. A concentration of rounds will penetrate the hull, even through the side skirts. With 300 rounds loaded up, we can cause significant issues.
What killed the EN/CO was 6000 tons of intermodal cars from the train derailing into the cab of the locomotive at over 60 mph. The locomotive took minimal damage from the impact with the 40 ton load.
Here’s a “light” locomotive, weighing about 60 tons less than a modern loco killing 3 of the tank crew on impact, and launching the turret into the tree line. Everyone on the train survived.
Trains derail all the time and they are very much survivable. Trains have hit much bigger and heavier things than in the Pecos example, and the crew walks away just fine. Take the Collegedale accident for example. An NS train struck a 106,000 lb, 134 foot long bridge beam, along with the additional weight of its truck and trailer. The train didn’t even derail until the wedged concrete tore up the tracks as it was pushed along. But again the crew was fine, just like in 99/100 examples.
We had an accident here in Sweden a couple of years ago, where a train (Rc6+passenger cars, AEM-7 cousin) hit an actual tank (Leopard I guess) on a level crossing, during a military exercise.
To summarize:
- Tank was mostly fine
- Tank crew wasn't fine in the slightest, but all survived with various injuries
- Train initially looked pretty okay, but the engine was later written off when frame damage was discovered. The only Rc6 to be written off in almost 50 years of service. It was stripped for spares and later scrapped.
Type of turret rotation after the hit suggests serious damage or failure to the turret ring. Which requires fully lifting the turret off the the machine to repair. So specialized repairs
I mean, a tank would hold up better and take little damage, that in the video isnt a tank, it is a self propelled howizter. It's armor isnt anything too impressive, just good enough to not get the crew killed from most gunfire.
CSX uses GE AC4400CW locomotives which I believe these are. 213 tons x 2 plus all the freight cars with loads. Nothing is going to survive an impact unscathed.
Not fully correct, we have actually created one thing, that isn't a vehicle, or a building, but the transport casks for nuclear waste is literally tested in various ways one of those included by being hit by a loaded train at 81mph, so they are pretty tough
Not really. A tank is usually 50-70 metric tons. A train engine is usually north of 100 tons. That train had three engines. I guess the whole train was well north of 2000 tons.
So, the effect on the tank was on the scale of a car hitting a rather small pedestrian.
So what is it with these trucks hauling things? They seem to be the ones constantly getting stuck on the tracks. Are the truck drivers just dumb? Is it a mechanical failure? What preventative measures can truck drivers take to make sure this doesn't happen?
Check the route in advance. Routine necessity for a low trailer like this. Then double check by eyeballing the crossing for any rise before proceeding.
That very busy line to and from the ports parallels the main road for miles and miles. I'm kind of amazed it doesn't happen more often, as every crossing is like that.
Whether the train derails or not isn’t really the point. The locomotive still did its job; it kept the crew safe. Would a train derail if it hit a true tank at speed? The odds are pretty good. But I would much rather be in the locomotive than in the tank. The impact will be much more violent for the tank crew and survivability lower due to the weight difference alone. 432,000 lbs plus whatever is behind the loco.
There’s a rule we have as professional drivers, if you’re not sure G.O.A.L. Get Out And Look. The amount of time they would have taken to park on the road, set the brakes, got out and looked at the road from the other side of the tracks, the driver would have known that they would not make it over. If someone else told them to do it anyway, hand them the keys to the truck and go home. This was completely unavoidable! Having said all that, it still happened, because I know drivers that would do it. Best advice I can give to the motoring public, stay away from trucks.
WOW, Looks like the Railroad Signals were working and the Traffic light was working. The Train Horn was working too. Looks like the Driver's Trailer was Stuck on the Railroad tracks? Somebody's in big Trouble and Needs a Job
After watching this sub for several years, I can confirm that this is done on purpose by the truck drivers.
I’m actually trying to convince myself that people aren’t this dumb but I might be losing that battle.
r/IdiotsTowingThings should convince you that people are indeed idiots.
r/thatlooksexpensive
Read that as that look sex pensive and was a little confused lmao 🤣
Not gonna say I haven't done similar 😂🤣😂🫡 honesty is sometimes the most humorous here lol
Best one ever is Massage Therapist. (Insert space after The) 🤦♂️ I always told my students it’s important to proofread before printing.
Shit yes that would be a bad one for sure!
Reddit needs a new sub, called 1foot1eighth for trucks bottoming.
They should have a logic test.. maybe ask for a university degree before hiring truck drivers... the kill to many people and waste a lot of tome and mo ey cause of their brain power
Low-floor trucks get high-centred on the tracks.
Drivers of such trucks have information on the locations on where this will happen to them and are supposed to be checking it.
So they are making choices that can be expected to lead to this situation, if not consciously intending to create this situation.
There is a track crossing near me that was repaved recently that consisted of just pouring more concrete on top of the old. A lowboy got stuck on it shortly after the road was opened again.
What happens if the trucker says fuck it and just hammers it. Is there no getting over the tracks or once they are stuck they are stuck?
Presumably you'd try that before this point. You can't get a worse result than being hit by a train.
Seen one that got stuck destroy the road crossing. Asked county dispatch to contact the railroad. In hindsight I could’ve looked for the sign and called myself.
You are correct I believe that as more technology has been introduced into vehicles it has made the drivers less aware of their surroundings now they will believe the little voice coming out of the dashboard before they will trust their own eyes and ears. Truly a sad state of affairs.
The driver was off route. Overdimensional/overweight loads are permitted and those permits come with designated routes including times of day restrictions so things like that don't happen. This driver was incompetent and endangered, not only his cargo and himself but the greater public at large.
If the train would've hit the tank center mass it is very likely there would've been a catastrophic derailment
Note: That was approximately a 50 ton stationary object made of densely compacted steel and that train smacked it like a fly.
In our state, detouring off of the permitted Over Sized Over Weight route will cost you like $20,000+, and that’s peanuts if the state has to fix a road that some dumbass destroyed for a shortcut.
The price tag for hitting a train is likely way higher.
Right on, i'm pretty sure in Abram's tank is well over 1 million not to mention a locomotive engine. I'm gonna venture to say the $2 million bonded policy the tractor is required to have is going to be inadequate very likely some type of jail time for the driver.
This is not a 66 ton Abrams tank in the video (Abrams was never 50t), it's a 38 ton M109 Paladin.
That is basically a 155mm howitzer, so an artillery piece for indirect fire, on tracks with light armor. It has the same mobility as a tank and is protected against shrapnel from enemy artillery and bombs and small arms fire, but any larger armament like a 25mm autocannon will go straight through its armor. I do admit both look very similar at first glance, so it's easy to misidentify them.
Also you are very far off on the cost.
TLDR: Abrams seems to be at around 15-20 million dollars per tank, the M109 as seen here seems to sit at roughly 7 million.
When it was introduced back in 1979, an M1A1 Abrams cost 4.3 million dollars to produce, adjusted for inflation that would be 10.6 million today, and they have only become more expensive since then due to a lot of upgrades, increased wages etc. The export cost of an M1A2 SEPv3 in 2022 was 24 million, though domestic cost for the US army likely is lower. The M109 Paladin as depicted in this video cost around 14.4 million in 2014 at the start of the production run of the A7 version, as of 2020 that cost seems to have dropped to 7 million. Due to the way these vehicles are procured, and exact number is just not possible to tell, it's not something that sits on a shelf in a store and has a fixed price tag.
Thank you for the coaching! Good things to know
This is correct. I live near where this occurred and am familiar with the area.
The driver needed to go down one more intersection and this would have never occurred. However, a lot of people avoid that road (Red Bank Rd) due to construction that had been going on for years. A lot of people take other roads (Montague Plantation Blvd and Liberty Hall Rd) to avoid this. That avoidance influenced standard GPS. This was the Liberty Hall light at Goose Creek Blvd. The railroad crossings get reworked constantly due to the heavy rail traffic, and the last few itterations did result in steep grades. There ARE warning signs for this exact reason.
Yea..the driver really fucked up. You don't happen to know what happened to that Driver you I would be interested to hear what became of him for the disaster
He was out, but I don't have any insight into the company or customer (he was hauling government property) punishment(s).
I think that’s the main way off that base.
It is Goose Creek, South Carolina, they are that dumb.
I mean yeah. Truck drivers are some of the lowest IQ people.
Corrected headline for the pedantic armored vehicle enthusiast:
"Bitch, I hit a self-propelled howitzer"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M109_howitzer
P.A.V.E. here, and thank you for that
Pave?
Pedantic armored vehicle enthusiast. Try to keep up.
Thanks! In Sweden we have the general term MÖP - Militärt Överintresserad Person. Militarily Over-interested Person.
Oh, it’s not an actual English term, those two were just joking around.
We can change that . . .
These should be Flairs
Knew this comment would be here. You nerds never disappoint.
Don't you mean us nerds?
Dude's hanging on a train subreddit and referring to us as "you nerds." May have some self awareness issues.
As soon as I saw I thought "self propelled gun" and went searching 😂
I was clearly train propelled off the flatbed.
Diagnosed autist, ex army. I came here to say this, thanks for restoring my faith a little.
I knew immediately the autism of reddit couldn't let the title slide lmao
Came here to say this
You’re both wrong: the train collided with the cab of a Prime Mover.
It definitely hit the M109 as well though, which is why the turret is spinning.
25 metric tonnes is not as heavy as it looks.
Yep, I know a Paladin howitzer when I see one. Much less expensive than an Abrams tank. Still certain to be a hefty insurance claim.
Apex predator strikes again
This one actually surprises me a little. I would have expected the tank to hold up a little better. Damn.
That's because it's a self-propelled howitzer and not a tank. It's made from rolled aluminum alloy providing very little protection and is only thick enough to protect its crew from shrapnel and small-arms fire.
I would add that for their intended role that’s all that requires. They are meant to be firing their 155mm at things that can’t see them or at the very least who have a hard time shooting back.
Their biggest threat is other artillery which is the shrapnel that they are defended against.
If they are say being shot at directly by something with a cannon or autocannon. . . Something has gone very seriously wrong. Though they still aren’t unlikely to win because few things cab take being even near missed by a 155mm shell
155mm HE: "It'll make your insides your outsides and make your outsides particulate!"
Even if it say hits a modern tank.
Sure, it won’t get through the armor. . . Doesn’t mean the tank still works or you’re not having a very, very bad day inside of what just turned into a large bell
This will get through any armor on any tank it can see. It will get through much or most of the armor on any tank, period. Even from near misses, these rounds will mess up the hull and back side armor of every tank. https://www.scribd.com/doc/151124802/Who-Says-Dumb-Artillery-Rounds-Can-t-Kill-Armor
Scribd wants me to subscibe so that is very difficult to read, though it doesn't seem like they are for the most part talking about modern MBTs, it is also from 2002 so it can only be about so modern of tanks. Modernized versions of things like the Abrams and Leopard 2 can take an incredible amount of explosive power.
Naval gun APHE of similar weight and velocity to modern 155mm in the WW2 era also couldn't always get through the levels of armor at least the frontal slope of a MBT has. Like at best they were, at point blank range, they could penetrate maybe 12". There is also for example the the 155mm M1, an ancestor to the current 155mm guns in US service now like the M109, and it's APHE hell at 500 yards could go through about 8".
There's a reason when navies wanted to get through armor like that is on modern tanks they stepped up the caliber significantly, and why even though now we're talking about modern MBT with guns 120mm or over they still need APFSDS to reliably defeat enemy armor. HE will do a lot of damage, but penetration is not assured
I’m sorry for that. I’ve never had a problem with it and never signed up.
The hulls of an Abrams and a Leopard are not radically better than they were in 2002.
You’re talking about the best and thickest parts of a tank’s armor. The front, and turret sides. I’m talking about most of a tank’s armor. Much of a modern tank is MUCH less than 12” armor. Much of it is right around there. We lost an M1 to an RPG round going through the hull, after going under the skirts, and the max penetration of the round used is only 12”. It got a mobility kill just the same.
The engine compartment has armor so thin and spare that we have a chance to get small arms into it. Tanks just aren’t as impervious as people think. The hulls and backs are not incredibly robust like the fronts are.
Indeed other than the front a 155mm will likely just destroy whatever part of the tank it hits. You said “any”, so I was going off of the max, and I will admit I’m not that familiar with how modern appliqué armor might affect this type of thing
There was one very interesting report that I saw from a Bradley about how in Iraq they had misidentified a friendly Abrams for an Iraqi tank from behind and proceeded to use the 25mm to wreck the engine of the Abrams before they realized their mistake.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear that I was talking about two things.
The artillery piece in OP will penetrate any armor on any tank that “it can see.” As in, for which it can place direct fires, which it can shoot directly, as a normal rifle does. If a 155 shell hits a tank directly, the survivability of the tank is far from guaranteed. The round can glance off, lots of things can happen, but it’s going to be a problem. As one of my tanker buddies says, I don’t want my tank to get hit with it.
With artillery shells landing in and around a tank, with indirect fires, the shrapnel will penetrate much of a tank’s armor. They’ve just run out of the ability to carry more weight in the form of hull armor. One of the key aspects of the SEPv4 and other programs was to remove the copper wiring and replace it with fiber optic, to save a few tons, it’s such a major issue.
Yes, the 25mm on our Brad’s is more effective than many people gave us credit for. At least until the Ukrainians took on a Russian tank (a T-90?) and knocked it out, forcing the surviving crew to ditch. A single AP or HE round will penetrate the exhaust armor. A concentration of rounds will penetrate the hull, even through the side skirts. With 300 rounds loaded up, we can cause significant issues.
Things have changed. These are now threatened by drones as well. Plenty of video in the Ukrainian war subreddits.
This is true.
Though, the answer might be simply longer ranged ammunition. There’s 155mm shells in development that outrange any FPV drone
Ah, interesting. Thanks.
Most locomotives are heavier than an MBT. And that's just the loco, there's a whole train behind it. Trains always win.
And also it's not an MBT, it isn't really armored.
Not always. Sometimes everyone loses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forst_Zinna_rail_disaster
NA trains are an entirely different kind of beast. Much heavier, and much thicker steel than the train in this example.
Here's a big strong NA train derailing after hitting a 40 tonne load, killing the conductor and engineer.
What killed the EN/CO was 6000 tons of intermodal cars from the train derailing into the cab of the locomotive at over 60 mph. The locomotive took minimal damage from the impact with the 40 ton load.
https://thekwe.org/topics/stateside_tragedies/p_sherman_tank.htm
Here’s a “light” locomotive, weighing about 60 tons less than a modern loco killing 3 of the tank crew on impact, and launching the turret into the tree line. Everyone on the train survived.
The train still derailed in your example. It's pretty much luck that the crew survived.
Trains derail all the time and they are very much survivable. Trains have hit much bigger and heavier things than in the Pecos example, and the crew walks away just fine. Take the Collegedale accident for example. An NS train struck a 106,000 lb, 134 foot long bridge beam, along with the additional weight of its truck and trailer. The train didn’t even derail until the wedged concrete tore up the tracks as it was pushed along. But again the crew was fine, just like in 99/100 examples.
That's about as much as a tank weighs. And yet again, it still derailed.
Anyways, when a train hits a tank next time I don't wanna be in the cab with the "train always wins" crew.
The train did win, nobody talked about the crew.
You just don't want to be in the front of the train. Might be an art to picking where to be on the train.
We had an accident here in Sweden a couple of years ago, where a train (Rc6+passenger cars, AEM-7 cousin) hit an actual tank (Leopard I guess) on a level crossing, during a military exercise.
To summarize: - Tank was mostly fine - Tank crew wasn't fine in the slightest, but all survived with various injuries - Train initially looked pretty okay, but the engine was later written off when frame damage was discovered. The only Rc6 to be written off in almost 50 years of service. It was stripped for spares and later scrapped.
damn the toaster got toasted.
That’s a self propelled gun, it’s not armored up as well as a tank
I’m sure it’s fine. I mean, is there a lot of damage to it internally? I’m sure there is. I bet it’s repairable though.
Type of turret rotation after the hit suggests serious damage or failure to the turret ring. Which requires fully lifting the turret off the the machine to repair. So specialized repairs
70 tons vs thousands of tons
This is a wild overexaggeration. It's 27.5 tons.
I mean, a tank would hold up better and take little damage, that in the video isnt a tank, it is a self propelled howizter. It's armor isnt anything too impressive, just good enough to not get the crew killed from most gunfire.
CSX uses GE AC4400CW locomotives which I believe these are. 213 tons x 2 plus all the freight cars with loads. Nothing is going to survive an impact unscathed.
Not fully correct, we have actually created one thing, that isn't a vehicle, or a building, but the transport casks for nuclear waste is literally tested in various ways one of those included by being hit by a loaded train at 81mph, so they are pretty tough
It didn't explode... sure turret spinned, but people miss that turrets for a most part are holded by own weight and gravity
Not really. A tank is usually 50-70 metric tons. A train engine is usually north of 100 tons. That train had three engines. I guess the whole train was well north of 2000 tons.
So, the effect on the tank was on the scale of a car hitting a rather small pedestrian.
Tanks for posting this.
*sad Paladin noises*
So what is it with these trucks hauling things? They seem to be the ones constantly getting stuck on the tracks. Are the truck drivers just dumb? Is it a mechanical failure? What preventative measures can truck drivers take to make sure this doesn't happen?
Check the route in advance. Routine necessity for a low trailer like this. Then double check by eyeballing the crossing for any rise before proceeding.
I thought these trailers could raise themselves to get over bumps, I dont get it.
This driver is dumb. Aside from seeing for himself he’d get high centered, there is a sign clearly showing a picture of what will happen
The transporters insurance company could not type the word DENIED fast enough.
Well, that was expensive.
I hope nobody died but I think somebody must have
No one was even injured.
I was at the next light back and watched that happen.
That very busy line to and from the ports parallels the main road for miles and miles. I'm kind of amazed it doesn't happen more often, as every crossing is like that.
🎶 I hit a tank, and I liked it 🎶
The taste of its reactive armor
I posted this a few months ago. It happened about 2 miles from where I live.
Impressive turret rotation speed
"What was that? Did we hit something?"
It all starts by putting a penny on the tracks. Some people never stop. 😅
Clearly, the Apex predator is the train, argument over
Who won? Obviously the trailer lost, but what’s the damage to the engine and tank? Would be interesting to know where the most damage occurred.
This season on Jackass
It’s an M109 Paladin. It’s not a tank, it’s a Self Propelled Howitzer
To quote a coworker who is an a Rmy vet when this happened locally....ITS NOT A TANK!!!
Everyone talking about it being a self-propelled howitzer brings me back to the trebuchet times.
That looks expensive
Can't park there mate
If only there was a sign warning drivers of low loader trailers that they'll get stuck.
Oh there is! 0:22
It's a self-propelled howitzer. Artillery
Respect to you comrade train 🫡
Typically, a tank should be hitting the X instead of getting hit by one
Makes you wonder why in ww2 the brits and yanks didnt just lay tracks across the fields. Would have changed the face of tank warfare
That's not a tank, its an artillery piece.
Potato, Potahto.
Whether the train derails or not isn’t really the point. The locomotive still did its job; it kept the crew safe. Would a train derail if it hit a true tank at speed? The odds are pretty good. But I would much rather be in the locomotive than in the tank. The impact will be much more violent for the tank crew and survivability lower due to the weight difference alone. 432,000 lbs plus whatever is behind the loco.
We all tried this in GTA 5. Train always wins.
Uhm Akkktttuualllyyy that is a self propelled gun, not a tank. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
Granted, if that had been an actual tank and not an artillery piece -- like, say, an Abrams -- I actually think you would be safer in the tank.
That is an M-109 Palladin self-propelled howitzer. A cannon. It was my workplace for 2 years.
Thats not a tank, its the m109
It sure looks like a tank
Its self propelled artillery.
Tracks, long shooty boy and built like a Volvo=tank
Alternative I’d method is ask a 5 year old what’s that
If it looks like a tank and quacks like a tank,
It's a tank... that sounds like a duck.
... What?
M109, not a tank 🤓☝️
Howitzer, not a tank.
Someone is getting Court Marshall.
Looks like a private transport. Maybe to a museum?
Thats a regular US army transport through a private company, thats normal.
News story from when this happened last year: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/13/train-hits-howitzer-video/75204319007/
Mr. Court Marshall
When did this actually happen? I have footage of the same incident from at least October of last year.
Hopefully the truck driver got fired for that.
I will never financially recover from this.
That tank looks pretty intact
There’s a rule we have as professional drivers, if you’re not sure G.O.A.L. Get Out And Look. The amount of time they would have taken to park on the road, set the brakes, got out and looked at the road from the other side of the tracks, the driver would have known that they would not make it over. If someone else told them to do it anyway, hand them the keys to the truck and go home. This was completely unavoidable! Having said all that, it still happened, because I know drivers that would do it. Best advice I can give to the motoring public, stay away from trucks.
Anyone pulling a low bed like that should know better
The war on cars is really hotting up. Even the heavy artillery can't stop train supremacy.
Hit that thing like a tank!
Source
Expensive mistake 🫰
Tanks a million, bad driver
When your screw up gets 20 camera angles and a massive bill.
Look it’s the Army 🤣
I AM the War Wagon! Git out the way, Bitch!!
Apparently the driver has never played GTA V.
A Paladin ain't no tank. 😂
Probably the only train crew that will ever say we crashed into a tank.
200,000+ pounds of mass moving at 35 - 40 mph VS Tank, who wants to bet on the Tank winning ?
Thats like me on gta trying to stop the train😂
This is peak.
What tank…?
WOW, Looks like the Railroad Signals were working and the Traffic light was working. The Train Horn was working too. Looks like the Driver's Trailer was Stuck on the Railroad tracks? Somebody's in big Trouble and Needs a Job
This is how america is recycling all there old ass mbts got tired of spending billions upgrading 40-60 year old tanks.
Expensive mistake 🫰
Doesn’t get anymore ‘Murica than that
Sounds and looks intentional
I bet it smells and tastes intentional, too.