@Norman R posted:Well, that is an awesome video of a tornado making a direct hit on a locomotive. As conventional wisdom would have it, locomotives must be made lighter so that they consume less fossil fuel and pose less of a threat to the environment.
I don't know where such "conventional wisdom" comes from but, making locomotives "lighter" drastically reduces their tractive effort, i.e. pulling power. Considering battery power, those batteries are even heavier, which is a good thing for a locomotive but, becoming quite serious issues for electric vehicles.
I think we should ask the crew of the locomotive in the video how apologetic they are about the weight of their massive locomotive and the damage it did to the tornado.
I didn't know that the "massive locomotive" damaged the tornado.
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