Mobile phone footage shows the two-kilometre wreckage of a deliberately derailed runaway iron ore train in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. The BHP-operated train, which included four locomotives and 268 wagons of ore, travelled 92km with no one on board before it was stopped after 50 minutes. The train was derailed remotely from a Perth office 1,500km away
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Automated rail traffic is what went wrong. It goes to show it's not any safer than human error from a crew.
Wonder if the driver still has a job?
That looks like an SD70Ace, probably is.
I do wonder what would've happened if they just let it continue going.
Any answers?
ATSB findings just came out. BHP totally to blame.
How come they can remotely derail the train but not remotely apply the brakes???
This video is a train wreck .
But hey let’s push for single man crews right??? What could possibly go wrong….
Unstoppable 2.0
…Looks like a great big 2 km long junkyard now…
prob a koala tipped it over
It was a perfect opportunity to recreate some train movie scenes, but they blew it.
All you had to do was follow the damn train CJ!
There should of been someone in the cab
777
UNSTOPABLE
Wooow, sorry by that!! …It was Dutch's idea
not one single person pulled out their mobile phone and filmed this in action? I CALL BS…. that wreckage looks like its been there for years
It utterly beggars belief that the brains outfit that considered creating and allowing a driverless train to exist couldn't come up with a way of remotely applying the brakes. IF you can remotely derail a train, why the hell can't you stop one? Are they rocket scientists or what?
Where is James Bond when you need one, we need you to get on to helicopter and then on to run away train, to save the world from the cho cho boogie monster.
Where is Tom Cruise when we need him…