Vroom vroom!

That train will just keep coming. Once such a freight train is going you better get out of the way. The amount of kinetic energy that's coming towards you is dwarfing compared to a measly tank.

A train of 8000 tons at a velocity of 30 km/h roughly has the kinetic energy of 66.39 kg TNT.

Supposedly 100 kg TNT
- It seems to be a lot, how does it compare to an artillery shell? The tank doesn't look like it fared too badly.
- ~~I don't think your units make sense --- kinetic energy has units of energy, but "kg TNT per second" is power (about 4MW). (I think just remove the "every second" and it's correct?)~~
  
  Edit: parent edited comment.

this sub doesn't exist on Lemmy :(
i miss r/bitchimatrain

Sounds like it's time to create it!
Be the change you want to see in the world! Don’t let your dreams be dreams!
- Yeah, but if you're gonna create it, you have to post to it like once a week or it'll just sit there dead, forever.
  
  And who wants to find something to post once a week? Can't I just have Facebook feed it to me. Picture Zuck saying "here comes the plane!"

Sorry for Reddit watermark… couldn’t quickly find it elsewhere.

For your consideration, the Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine: https://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/

Edit to show example search for “freight train”: https://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.php?phrase=freight+train

I didn’t make this site, I just find it to be very useful for this extremely niche use case 🤣 Although, weirdly, it seems to be linking the wrong strip for this particular one. Dunno why, I’ve never seen it do that before.
that is literally the worst watermark I've ever seen in my entire time on the internet, more than a quarter century now.
- Why is there a Reddit watermark at all!? They didn't create the content, and I doubt Mr. Watterson would want it to be hosted there. Did a redditor go out of their way to slap that over the last panel? Like you said, the absolute worst...
- You've obviously not seen some of the footage coming out of Ukraine war. They watermark over the entire video

Here you go.

South Carolina in September. Low-slung trailer got stuck at the crossing and the driver skedaddled right before the impact. Also, ever so sadly, it doesn't officially count as a tank, only self-propelled artillery.

I expected more damage on the train. It really didn't give a fuck.
- I think less and less damage to either side as armor and structural integrity increase is probably the norm with trains. For example non armor vehicles are turned into fun metal tangles. This 30 ton "lightly" armored vehicle looks pretty intact. A 70 ton tank might just remain more intact as the train shunts it to the side. The train might take more superstructure damage but there's a lot of just solid metal pushing in one direction. So I don't think any impact like that is ever going to actually just destroy the train.
I was wondering how a tank ended up on a railway track.
- It was training for battle.
Kinda looks like an M1A1 Abrams to me
- That is 100 percent a pally. Abrams don't have rear doors.
- Nah, it's got that extra flat butt and long overhang with the basket thing on the back of the turret. The news report also said it's a Paladin, though this video is also showing off midsize-market local American news, so I wouldn't have trusted it on its own.

Why don't we use trains on battlefields? (I see no issues with this plan)

You could even wrap the tracks around the train so it can go wherever it wants!
- That's just a tank with extra steps
- Cereal is actually a kind of soup.
  
  And tanks are technically a type of train.
Russia and Ukraine do
We used to.
- And for the audio afficianado: [Well There‘s Your Problem] Episode 67: Armored Trains #wellTheresYourProblem
- We ironed up the boats too, steam engine warfare was kinda cool ngl

Considering tanks are transported by train, not surprising. Train big.

And the train I am currently on was transported by truck.
- Your train small.

Well that's an M109 Paladin. It weighs about half as much as an actual tank. But if it was fully loaded there's a pretty good chance nobody wins because it's an artillery system and it carries a lot of stuff that goes boom.

I don't care to speculate on who wins between a 70 ton tank and a train. It probably depends on what the train is pulling.

Edit to add - also we need pictures from different angles. From this angle it looks like the Paladin might have simply been de-tracked. But I'm pretty sure there's more damage as it's armor is actually comparatively light, rated for small arms and shrapnel.

So it's more self-propelled artillery?
- Technically yeah, colloquially no sane person would judge another for calling such a thing a tank
- That's exactly what it is.

🇺🇸This is America🇺🇸

Attention dispatch... There has been a mass shooting at the site of the Tank Train collision, but thankfully all victims have successfully had their medical claims for woundcare denied. Time to go home...

Top Gun theme blares as the Police Mustang drives off into the sunset. And... scene.
- Worthy of a South Park bit
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5YVLyLsL-u4

This is for sure gta

Isn't that a self-propelled artillery piece? I wanna say like an M109 or something

tank looks like missing parts of the bottom part, train is uhh 🥭

Just skirts and detracted, the hull is probably intact but likely cracked enough it will need refurb at the factory. Also it probably fell off the train rather than ran into it.

It looks like the tank returned fire.

Lookin' like a new Transformers.