Скачать или смотреть 10 Times American Horsepower Snapped A Mile Long Train

When 20,000 horsepower fights 15,000 tons of dead weight, the entire war is fought across a single, 80-pound piece of cast steel. The moment a locomotive's tractive effort exceeds the tensile yield limit of a Janney coupler, the metal does not just break—it detonates like a fragmentation grenade.

But the snapped steel is only the beginning of the nightmare. The separation instantly severs the pneumatic brake pipe, "dynamiting" the air lines and sending a violent, uncommanded shockwave of slack action ripping through a mile of loaded freight cars.

This is the forensic autopsy of the 10 most violent heavy-rail separations in US history. Witness the brutal Newtonian physics of the kinetic run-in, the absolute limits of metallurgical engineering, and the terrifying reality of what happens when American horsepower overpowers its own infrastructure and snaps a mega-train right down the middle.