5 Train Accidents That Were Just Bizarre | History in the Dark

Sometimes trains hit weird things. It's one of those things.
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[@laserhawk64]

Here's one I heard... this British Rail 10800 trundled onto the path of some KZbinr historian of minor fame, and then called all his mates to gang up on the poor fellow... was about two years ago, from what I recall, and last I heard, he's still talking about it to this very day. Drove the poor fellow absolutely mental.

[@HistoryintheDark]

Wow, that sounds...w-wait...

[@laserhawk64]

@@HistoryintheDark Wow, I've never been _pinned_ before! Thank you, sir, it's an honor. ...forgive me, but can I make a request? No, not a British one, for better or worse. I'd actually like to hear more on the Netherlands NS-200, the little shunters you hang off the side of to drive em. Somewhere in that admittedly all-too-entertaining series they got a brief mention... now I'm curious to know more! (Silly me.)

[@kurtpena5462]

Not A BOAT

[@laserhawk64]

@@kurtpena5462 ...and?

[@vincentrosario5358]

@@HistoryintheDark why does this upload feel like a re-upload? great content and I WANT. THAT. STEAM ENGINE!!!.. for preservation of course! :D

[@JohnSmith-of2gu]

That third train that stole a cleaning lady is a brilliant example of how relying on safety "procedures" that are trivial to circumvent for convenience is a recipe for disaster.

[@Trainfan1055Janathan]

21:30 On the buses I drive, if you leave it in drive while the doors are open, even if the parking brake is released, it won't go anywhere. If the doors are closed while the bus is in drive, it'll lock the transmission until the brake is pressed. A lot of bus drivers leave the bus in drive to save time. I personally don't like only having one thing prevent the bus from moving, mainly because of this crash.

[@JBobjork]

Yes, I am a bus driver too and sometimes the door brakes does not work. On some models you then have to apply the parking brake to open the doors, but on some you realize it doesn't work when the bus starts rolling as you load passengers.

[@gchampi2]

Nice PSA at the end there, Darkness. Remember kids, Trains win against Cars, Trucks, Planes, Helicopters, Buildings and Boats. Do not take any of these into direct collision with a Train, as you will LOSE. Moose win against Trains. It may be a pyrrhic vicory, but they still win. Do not enter into conflict with a Moose, as, unless you are stronger than a Train carrying several thousand tons of Iron ore, YOU WILL LOSE.

[@TheA53ford]

Now I have an odd idea... Train versus a Nuclear reactor

[@joshjones3408]

​​@@TheA53fordWhat about a train hitting the shrimp device does that count ????😮👍

[@ChimmyAnimate]

I Will say that it's very much a draw: No one really, really wins. The moose is dead, the train is wrecked, and the crew on board probably has PTSD now. what a clusterfudge.

[@this51man]

Train hitting the moon? Sounds like something CSX would do

[@Heroduothecomedian]

Nah, more like Northfork Southern xD

[@0fficialdregs]

@@Heroduothecomedian 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@imaketrainzvideos]

Don't you mean NS?

[@peterstickney7608]

Maine Central,l, Canadian National, Boston & Maine / Guilford / Pan Am... Moose incidents are common in the North Country.

[@joshuabessire9169]

@@Heroduothecomedian Joint operation: CSX to runaway the train. NS to actually hit the moon.

[@haroldbenton979]

For those that think a moose is not destructive. I was in Maine were there are some Moose. It was rutting aka mating season for moose and other deer. Well several OTR drivers had gone to sleep in a rest area in northern Maine. We woke up the next morning and one of us had a moose scratching his head on the hood ornament of his long nose Peterbilt truck. He goes I'll get rid of him and blew his air horn at the moose. What he did not see but several of us behind him did see was the second BULL moose looking at his reflection in his polished doors of his reefer trailer. The front moose said oh no you don't challenge me and charged the truck hit it hard and shook it. Then the second one saw his reflection move towards him. For the next 20 mins those 2 meese tore that truck apart.

[@joshuabessire9169]

It's not a bull moose, it's a mander.

[@Philip271828]

@@joshuabessire9169 Not a Roosevelt?

[@paulkowald4057]

With all the advancements and technology, I would not be surprised if someday they come up with a space train

[@vinceely2906]

That is a screenplay for a TV movie you need to be writing😄

[@imaketrainzvideos]

There’s an anime called Galaxy Express 999

[@yogabumm]

*_Galaxy Railways intensifies_*

[@icaruskarin]

​@@imaketrainzvideos Yes, I seen that one. It one of the most weirdest boy lose mum and ends up falling in love with a girl that looks like mum film.

[@AnimalsVehiclesAndMore]

You know what, I actually want to see Darkness do a video about the Japanese anime TV series "The Galaxy Railways." It's one of the most unique TV series out there, as it's about trains that literally travel through SPACE!!!!!!!!

[@Dulcimerist]

How bizarre, how bizarre...

[@bellakaldera3305]

I've heard tales of Bull Moose in Rut charging trains and derailing them in Alaska too. Don't F with the Moose!

[@4everdc302]

Jumbo, “The King of Elephants” was tragically killed when he was struck by a Grand Trunk Locomotive(Northern Trunk)Railway of Canada train. In St. Thomas Ontario, on September 15th, 1885.

[@DeZweedseMachinist]

The swedish cleaning lady later became a train driver. 😃 A colleague had her as a student driver some years ago.

[@NeatNaut]

One very weird train disaster that once happened was when an ICE train (probably an ICE 2 or 1) collided with a herd of sheep as it entered the Landrücken Tunnel. The ICE number 885 was damaged quite heavily, as it was traveling at 210+ km/h when it hit the sheep. 12 out of 14 of the cars derailed. Out of the 170 people on board, 22 were seriously injured and 17 only slightly. injured. Some sources state that up to 77 sheep died. The cost came out to 10,320,000 Euro.

[@budwhite9591]

There was a short the other day. I think it was in Mexico, but dash cam of a loco hits a donkey standing on the tracks. Dude. You hear a thump. And then a bunch of red chunks just go flying.

[@johndunkelburg9495]

The North American moose often comes up among the top three most dangerous animals in North America, where they weigh over 1500 lbs, stand over 6 ft at the shoulder, and have a temper only fractionally better than a hippopotamus. Plus, unlike almost every other member of the deer family a moose can kick in any direction. I can see how one could derail a freight train if a moose can walk away uninjured from totaling a Honda.

[@MGower4465]

Moose. There is a home security video of a moose minding its own business walking along a forest edge. But, its a certain time of year. Moose antoers are not permanent. The moose sneezes, its antlers fall off, the moose utters whatever "WTF" is in moose, and runs from its own antlers. And somebody got a nice trophy for the wall without having to hunt.

[@Billblom]

moose vs car.. At night, you may only see "legs" on each side of the road. The moose is tall enough you may not see the body in the middle unless you have high beams on. Hitting the moose with an average car just makes the moose ANGRY.... If it isn't too tall, you end up with a collapsed roof with a moose lying on it trying to figure out who to kill to get even....

[@IwishIwasSianPhillips]

I am sorry, Darkness, but after hearing about the train vs. moose incident, I just can't help myself. A moose once bit my sister.

[@antontsau]

Sydney airport well known by its outstanding achievement - they managed to collide plane and (coal) train, long ago in 1950.

[@GuyfromEarth-he2zu]

Hi, i rided the urquiza line (the one that hitted the helicopter) some days ago and in fact i seen the same train (train number 1) resting in the terminal waiting for service, the urquiza is the only line that uses third rail toshiba today, the sarmiento and mitre lines used them until 2014, although there are still toshiba who use catenary, incredible video and thanks for the mentioning my country that is normally being joked about a terrible war for the two countries that happened 40 years ago, greetings from argetina!

[@thenekom]

NASA has (had?) a railroad operation on the cape, so theoretically a train COULD have crashed into some moon rocks. Actually the odds are more likely than not that it's happened.

[@KnightRanger38]

Segments of the solid boosters for both the Space Transportation System and the Space Launch System are still transported to Kennedy Space Center via train.

[@dmroth2495]

Beware the cleaning lady

[@cudwieser3952]

Gonna make a suggestion of a distraction/Diversion, but you should look into Road Trains and the risks their drivers face

[@trainglen22]

Gads, most Canadian railways in the Western part would think the same thing about Mooses(or is it Meese?)

[@johnathonmcjohn3]

i see troublesome truck in thumbnail i watch video

[@lukemendel8197]

I see troublesome truck in video, I like.

[@JBobjork]

Just wanted to add they the motorised unit does not usually lead, they always lead when going towards Saltsjöbaden and does not when going from Saltsjöbaden as there is no way to turn the units around.

[@samuelbenge524]

I'd have to say one of the most famous as well as bizarre was the Congressional wreck in Washington where the locomotive, a PRR GG1 electric, plunged into the station basement

[@Straswa]

I've heard of that one. Workers built a floor over the wreckage so visitors to the inauguration wouldn't see it.

[@jacekatalakis8316]

Train has hit everything But did it then go and hit the pace car?

[@Steamtheamaricanengine]

No it will probobly hit an entire city and plough through sevral buildings then plunge into the ocean XD

[@harrisonallen651]

Toshiba making electric rail units I find totally hilarious

[@mrsrmp]

They stayed for almost 60 years in service, they were very good stuff

[@anzaca1]

Why? Remember, most Japanese aircraft and car makers used to be shipbuilders.

[@Tom-Lahaye]

A moose crossed the road in front of me when driving trough Norway, and yes, they are HUGE! There is also the story of a train in England taking out a German FW-190 after it strafed the steam engine with cannon fire. It caused the boiler to explode and the dome flying off took out the plane. The young pilot had underestimated the power of a boiler explosion and thought he was safe at 300ft. The locomotive, Southern Railway class D3 2365 was even repaired and taken back in service.

[@JBobjork]

Another thing about the train crashing into a house The reason so many articles mentioned the train being stolen wasn't because they didn't have all the facts, it was Arrivaz and later the Public Transport Authority telling them she stole it, and the päolice also investigating it, that made the news go nuts. The fact that they later took it back didn't sell any more newspapers so not many did any follow up articles except the ones that now could write articles about the region of Stockholm blaming a victim.

[@PeteDriver530]

Blue Thunder was also hit by a train

[@neiloflongbeck5705]

At the time of the accident, Arriva was owned by DBAG of Germany (as your graphic showed).

[@BattleshipOrion]

New Battleship ammo unlocked: Train car Also, a train sank a Great Lakes car ferry...Pere Marquette 18 if I recall.

[@jimmyandersson4599]

It's pronounced [salt-shô-bànán] or salt-shô-track as it's name means. Say "banana" and skip the last "a" and you are almost there😂

[@bowlinerailfan]

The train vs. ship story sounds like it could've been the basis Christopher Awdry used to create the Railway Series story "Bulstrode", which was used in the Thomas and Friends story "Special Attraction."

[@iBackshift]

I see the guy in the Huey is sitting there, trying to solve a Rubik's cube.

[@nopamineLevel100]

I never really considered helicopter - train crashes lol

[@AvengingSaints]

That nearly made me spit my drink out 😂 great reference at 11:00

[@Steamtheamaricanengine]

“The trucks laughed at their sillieness

[@shadetreader]

As a massage therapist, every day I figure out how to pronounce random names, yet popular YTers can't be bothered to do the same.

[@fourtyfivefudd]

I’m curious as to how the cars rolled away and were able to gain enough speed to pierce the hull, as ideally the emergency brakes would automatically apply once there was a separation in the brake pipe. Even if not enough to stop the cars, but perhaps just enough to slow it down enough. Unless maybe the engine was doing switch service or an industry job, then maybe they were just pulling cars with brakes which were bled off, to make switching a little faster.

[@eggsbenedictstudios]

11:01 "because those troublesome trucks would get the engine's every Time, troublesome trucks would run the engines off the Line, they push them here, push them there, untill they go too fast, then they push them once again, laughing while they crash"

[@ssingfo]

On the topic of train derailing after hitting an animal, on the 28th of April 2008 and ICE hit a flock of sheep, derailing, and sliding derailed into a tunnel, some of the cars would have tilted over if not for the tunnel wall. And if you now take a second to think what would have been if the flock of sheep would have been hit a bit earlier and the train would have tilted enough before entering the tunnel and instead slamming into the portal of the tunnel..... yeah.....

[@rovanderby759]

I love how you totally butchered "Spijkenisse" because I've always found it to be a silly name (I'm from Rotterdam)

[@teodor9975]

For the Norway situation. It would not be a class 66 as it was not at trondheim route. If I recall it was one of the DB freight units

[@jasongoodman3495]

Why am I not suprised a train hit a helicopter somehow🤦‍♂️

[@irishpsalteri]

This is great. Can't trust those rogue cleaning ladies.

[@ABrit-bt6ce]

South Padre Island. I've heard of that place somewhere.

[@Straswa]

Great work History in the Dark. Enjoying the humor.

[@SeraphinaPZ]

The last one really just serves to reinforce my fear of moose, mooses? meese? Whatever the correct plural is, I would not want to encounter one, let alone multiples. I'd rather tangle with a pack of wolves.

[@thecatwrangler9448]

Bruh I was wondering why I was subscribed to this random channel who gave me back to back hits about world famous fraudsters… it’s because you are THE leading authority on train accidents and train accident accessories.

[@superj8502]

I remember of a cow derailing a train somewhere in Britain

[@bpw102896]

Darkness you need to talk about Lawrence of Arabia train

[@geoffreypiltz271]

I remember the train on the whale from the news at the time.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

What if an australian train hits an emu?

[@gydo1942]

I knew the whale tail incident had to be in here. I remember when that hit the news in the Netherlands.. I was VERY confused as to how the heck he pulled that off.. I'm not from that area though, so I can't comment on what model of train that was or anything specific.

[@Union_Pacific_844_FEF]

History in the dark remember when you said that you didn’t want to hear about a train hitting a person again? well it happened again with the 2816 in Mexico City.

[@mikeworkman3593]

A train hit Air Force One...... After a nuclear detonation...... It's in a book, um..... damn can't think of the name.. Oh Swan Song

[@LoPhatKao]

train hits ship.... 9:40 "The year was 1981, middle of July" 13:05 newspaper clipping shows Sept 17, 1980 🤔

[@geoffreypiltz271]

Since 2022 Saltsjobanan has been owned by VR the government-owned railway company of Finland.

[@nopamineLevel100]

Also, you could definitely do a video on the train wreck that is scientology 😏

[@jeremyjohnson457]

32:11 I wonder if running over a dead deer counts as hitting a deer?

[@aguy17]

11:00 LOL

[@mikeblatzheim2797]

FYI, a much more widespread and more sensible safety system than PTC (that is, if you have a dense network and don't try to do this the cheapest way possible) is PZB, which has been in use since the 1950s. Magnets are placed at corresponding signals, switches and speed restrictions, and if a train passes at a too high speed, it will be stopped automatically. As it's incredibly reliable, simple in its implementation and relatively inexpensive, variants of this system have been in use on almost the entire European rail network since at least the late 70s. As for why PZB wasn't present for the accidents in Rotterdam and Stockholm, I'd hazard a guess and say that those systems don't run under heavy rail regulations (certainly the RET doesn't), and thus have far fewer safety restrictions.

[@Union_Pacific_844_FEF]

2199’s cars just have troublesome truck power

[@Steamtheamaricanengine]

Troublsome:*laughs histaricly*

[@gkjsooley]

The GG-1 going through the floor of the concourse of DC's Union Station is fairly out there.

[@randallvos]

You missed one that happened last year, we had a train hit a hot air balloon in my hometown of Burlington, WI. Riders in the balloon were life flighted to the hospital, but all survived...........

[@fastoutnotforkids7192]

0:23 i think you should try watching the anime movie "Express 999" then watch its series counterpart called "galaxy railways" then come back to us. Because both are trains in space. Would like to hear your thoughts on them.

[@GrayD1ce]

Train one, ship zero...

[@carlossaraiva8213]

My cousin was once bitten by a moose...

[@peterstickney7608]

Darkness - The thing that makes the Moose so dangerous is that they are completely unpredictable. Since they are so large, there is no single predator that can take one down. So, if you're not a Wolf Pack, it doesn't know what to do. It may ignore the threat, and just keep ambling along, it may run, it may stand still and let you touch it, it may charge, and it may tap-dance on top of you or your vehicle until the annoying noise stops. Of course, in the Mating Season, all bets are off. There's a school of thought that a Locomotive or Truck horn is similar enough to a Mating Dominance Challenge that the honked-at Moose is compelled to charge it to defeat it in head-to-head, antler-to-antler battle. Then there are the Brain Parasites.

[@UPLAJ5]

The up 2199 is a SD60

[@kurtpena5462]

The locomotive that hit the Huey says "FIAT" right above the door. It's the late '70's italic logo. So how did you conclude that it was a Toshiba??? 🙉

[@anzaca1]

The one with the Fiat logo is clearly one made by Fiat, under licence in Italy. He just used that photo as an example.Also, that's NOT the exact train that hit the helicopter, just an example of the type.

[@bamafan-in-OZ]

Wow, How many people can say they were saved by a Whale let alone while driving a train.

[@obelic71]

The carriage of train 5351 who landend on the wail tail was bend beyond repair it had to be written of, That carriage was gutted out for parts for it siblings and the remains scrapped in 2022. The other section of 5351 has become a reserve carriage for the fleet.

[@joshjones3408]

Is pearlmen with his chain saw one of freaky things hit by a train 😆😆

[@Razer_-fe9mo]

16:06 Sand? What?

[@lonewolf4215]

Sounds like the Swedish train had read a certain tale about a little blue tank engine who thought he didnt need his driver anymore and decided to copy him

[@Steamtheamaricanengine]

“You silly little engine youve ruined our midnight snack and our house now we”ll have to get some more”(pretend that this is in swedish)

[@Dulcimerist]

I heard that he caused confusion and delay.

[@glengreen362]

In the helicopter v. train saga, if the train was electric powered EMU, how did the helicopter avoid the electric power supply? If it came straight down, it would have struck the overhead catenary, or if it was a third rail, they must have been really lucky not to foul it with the skids. It would have been a very sad ending if after making a successful forced landing, the crew got fried by several thousand volts of electricity.

[@СергейМорозов-ц7ч]

There was a third rail 600V DC.

[@jcollins1802]

i have heard cp 2816 accident

[@Dnb_RailFan8698]

Just took a moment to relisten to when the incident that happened at 27:01. Why is it that in both 2020 and 2022 on my birthday happen to have incidents. (Ik this may be pointless, I'm just curious)

[@Gordanovich02]

In the Dutch language a j works a lot like a y in English. So Spy-ken-iss-eh.

[@gamerguy425]

14:39 what is this, a train in a Tony Hawk level? I respect that they plug the gap but it just looks begging to be skated

[@kennethjosephson134]

Speaking of Milwaukee, it was the location of an incident involving rail rolling stock and a ship. In 1905, Milwaukee Electric interurban car #1011 was crossing the Water Street bridge. As the car was about to clear the span, the lake freighter Kearsarge struck the moveable bridge before it could be opened. No serious injuries to the people on the interurban car and the ship did not suffer any serious damage. The bridge was wrecked and the interurban car, suspended above the wreckage, was said to be close to plunging into the water. Car #1011 was repaired and remained in passenger service until 1923, when it was demotorized and rebuilt into an express trailer, finally being scrapped in 1941.

[@Steamtheamaricanengine]

Ok im dead at the moose part “more likly it just didnt care about you or your honda civic it just destroyed or the emt diesel carrying sevral tons of iron ore heading toeards it”😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@qvcybe]

what i have learn from this vid is trains are asshole

[@window1102]

Isnt that Union Pacific 2199 an SD50? edit: nvm its an SD60

[@HyperBlueWolf]

Arriva is a German company NOT British. DB = German Railways.

[@TrainLover-wt9ix]

12:16 That’s what she said 😅

[@jimmyandersson4599]

No, we don't call it Elk in Scandinavia, that's a misconception. In the 90s someone thought that the elk and moose(in swedish, älg) was the same animal and that's the name came to stupid people that can't see the difference between a worm and a tiger. The Swedish name on a moose is Älg, so it's easy for stupid people to think that "ooh, so in English the name for älg(pronounce [elj]is elk."😂😂😂 for us, the real Elk is called "Wapiti hjort" or "Wapiti deer"

[@PhillipNigro-nq3qy]

It was the English yes your favorite company British Rail SLAMED a train into an over turned NUCLEAR flask to see if it would break it had just water but still 😂😂

[@HistoryintheDark]

To be fair, that was on PURPOSE, so I don't really count it in the same way as the others.

[@philtheairplanemechanic]

currently the video has four likes and zero views so that's neat

[@brentboswell1294]

It's a beautiful Saturday morning in much of North America...who's watching KZbin vids? 😂

[@johncmitchell4941]

Timing? Did five people watch right away with you not among those who like me hit the like button before we watch a video we get notifications for? btw, 3,126 views and 382 likes when I stared tying this. As I post 3364 views and 390 likes. Cheers.

[@joshuabessire9169]

To speak Dutch just get really drunk and try to say it in English. I'm not a big art guy but I like those statues, interesting without being weird, and built Tonka tough.

[@jacekatalakis8316]

Oh yeesh, Arriva. Nice to know they are just as awful in the Nordic nations. Also what the actual fuck at the Arctic Star being sunk by a few train cars. Just....what, how does a train car even do that much damage collectively to the boat?

[@anzaca1]

Are you not aware how big and heavy train cars are?

[@maltesephil]

Arriva is German not British

[@carltonkeys6205]

Samsung

[@Beans1905-rv2ev]

Jeez

[@danielbedrossian5986]

The Toshiba train has a big ass Fiat mark wrote on it front. Uhh, what?

[@MrCarrizojim]

The train in the 1st video clearly has FIAT on the front of it…. So it’s not a Toshiba

[@afs5609]

why did the rear of train that broke away RUN AWAY DOWN HILL, if the rolling stock was fitted with automatic air brakes, the brakes would have applied in emergency, or was the equipment have badly maintained brake system, that seems to be a normal thing with American railroads equipment

[@pootispiker2866]

They probably just weren't hooked up

[@0fficialdregs]

darkness i have another one, theres a locomotive that transforms into a robot :D