Experiments to derail trains - World War Two RailRoads & Spectacular Train Crash Documentary
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Uploaded by wdtvlive42 on Apr 23, 2011
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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A very interesting video
6 months ago 13
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just rename them amtrak!
8 months ago 10
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This is one of the coolest videos I've ever watched on YouTube
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Where's MST3K when you need them?
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Should have put a penny on the track, that will redial it guaranteed
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anyone else see CP Train at 0:14
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the narration doesn't sound quite as ...dapper
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Unstoppable.
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how not to derail a train
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Seems to me that the trick would be to bend the end of one rail inwards just enough that the flange would end up on the outside of the track, which, theoretically, would pull the entire train over.
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video could use a bit of work on the de-interlacing
MrWendaru 4 days ago
@MrWendaru
Yep, I'd uploaded the source rather than modified version by mistake. Didn't realize my error until a few months had passed. As no one had mentioned the problem I just left it alone.
wdtvlive42 4 days ago
The audio of the narration sounds really clean for 1944, was this really part of the original video?
TheBradyarnold 3 months ago 2
@TheBradyarnold
Audio may be a later dub but is at least 20yrs old. I do clean up the audio and video as best I can (de-hummer at 50/60hz, declick/depop, compress low level noise, etc.)
wdtvlive42 3 months ago 5