@William 1 posted:Well for the guys in the cab of that diesel engine that got run over by a tornado I am quite sure they are glad it was heavy enough to keep them on the two tracks. That has to be a tad disconcerting seeing a twister aimed right at you with debris hitting all around you. They didn't seem overly concerned tho, maybe they knew they were planted securely to the tracks.
What would happen depends on the strength of the tornado. The video is rather meaningless as far as determining the resistance of a railroad locomotive to a tornado, without knowing how strong the tornado was. That didn't look like a very powerful one. As most know, tornados are rated from F1 to F5 on the Fujita scale, F5 being the most powerful. For example, F1 wind speeds are 73-112 mph, whereas F5 speeds are 261-318 mph. I would not want to be in a locomotive if a F5 (or a F4 either) was about to hit it.
