Severe Weather

JLJ061 wrote:Now I'm curious to find out if a locomotive ever actually got hit head-on by a twister and managed to stay on the ground?

Ladysmith Wisconsin had a twister go right up the middle of town in Sep. 2002. There is a Soo Line F7 and 3 coaches on display there. The twister went right past them. The coaches blew over, the locomotive stayed upright. I believe TRAINS had a picture of the damage a couple of months later.

Well its a long time ago , and in a different country , but on a mountainous line in New Zealand , they used to carry chains on the trains . If they encountered high winds , the procedure was to stop and chain the train to the track . Trains were alot lighter in those days i guess .

Well, if an F3 can survive a twister, then a GE Will certainly have NO problem.

Here are some twister photos from 2OO2. Acording to Wikipedia, an F3 with winds 158 to 206 mph trains are overturned.
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=3126
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=2175
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=1998
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