What's up with the trains

[ElAurens]

Result of boiler explosion on a C&O H8 loco. These had the largest boilers ever put on a steam locomotive...

June 9, 1953 - Chesapeake and Ohio Railway 2-6-6-6 “Allegheny” number 1642 suffers a boiler explosion. All three head-end crew members are killed when the cab is blown in one piece 200 feet (60 m) in the air and 300 yards (275 m) off the mainline into the adjacent river. The boiler is blown off the running gear and flips end for end, coming to rest 600 feet (180 m) ahead of the train. The blast is blamed on a faulty feedwater injector and/or cold water pump.

[DayGlow]

Well I'm thankful that we have working station clocks vs trains blowing up good

[ParaB]

Why shouldn't a 0.50cal throw a train off the tracks? Just look at what Mustangs armed with 0.50cals did to both the Bismarck and the Tirpitz! Or when they totally flipped over a KingTiger in Normandy who landed on Rommel himself, killing him.

[palker4]

cannon shell is tiny compared to 70 tons of locomotive. you need massive amount of energy to move such huge thing even a feet and your average 20mm cannoshell just does not have it. Think man.

[CaptainDoggles]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

I can confirm that happens in game, I blew up a locomotive, it let off a huge steam cloud, and then when I returned, it was laying on its side, next to the 3rd railcar. Post pictures after work.

Someone mentioned I had a orgasm in TS3 when it happened, it was pretty cool and very unexpected!

Sounds like a boiler explosion to me. Pretty sweet that the DM for trains includes such a thing. Definitely not knocking a train over by the "weight of fire" though.

Anyone with a basic grasp of physics can tell you it just doesn't happen.

[DayGlow]

Originally Posted by CaptainDoggles

Sounds like a boiler explosion to me. Pretty sweet that the DM for trains includes such a thing. Definitely not knocking a train over by the "weight of fire" though.

Anyone with a basic grasp of physics can tell you it just doesn't happen.

Please show the math that it isn't possible.

[DK-nme]

Originally Posted by DayGlow

People go on and on about how he modelled the trains to the point of people joking that it's Train Simulator 2011.

Well I was doing a free flight over England in a BF-110 and low and behold I come across a train! Feeling frisky I decide to strafe it. I come in broadside and give the train itself the beans. 4 mgs and 2 cannon just blasting away. Well guess what? I stayed on the tracks! Pftt, some modeling. The weight of fire would easily derail it. WWII footage shows P-51s and 47s blowing trains off the tracks all the time. The BF-110 should surely do the same.

Even a new movie coming out shows how damaging .50cals are against trains, let alone explosive 20mm shells would be

Kinda disappointed.

Well, have to admit, I really hate CGI effects like that (Sooo tanfastic and completely overmodelled - overrules G-effects completely!!!).
And no, none of those action scenes seem realistic. The P-51 pilot that did that stalling wingshot wasn't even part of the Red Tail sqdr.


DK-nme

[diveplane]

Originally Posted by DayGlow

People go on and on about how he modelled the trains to the point of people joking that it's Train Simulator 2011.

Well I was doing a free flight over England in a BF-110 and low and behold I come across a train! Feeling frisky I decide to strafe it. I come in broadside and give the train itself the beans. 4 mgs and 2 cannon just blasting away. Well guess what? I stayed on the tracks! Pftt, some modeling. The weight of fire would easily derail it. WWII footage shows P-51s and 47s blowing trains off the tracks all the time. The BF-110 should surely do the same.

Even a new movie coming out shows how damaging .50cals are against trains, let alone explosive 20mm shells would be

Kinda disappointed.

utter nonsence most these holywood films.