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Mrchristopherrr t1_j8y0h20 wrote

Reply to comment by thisusedyet in Michigan derailment: No hazardous material spilled in second rail crash by batmaninwonderland

That video is heavily misleading- it’s from almost 10 years ago showing rails that had been abandoned for around 30 before that. They’ve since been repaired.

Adding on that the footage is shot to make the rails much more bendy than they are and is sped up and slowed down to exaggerate the effects.

No major rail lines look like that.

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thisusedyet t1_j8y5mvu wrote

See, the first time I saw that was a couple days ago, and all that context was missing. Somebody linked to a newer upload of that, and all it said was ‘rails in Ohio / Indiana’. My bad for not looking into it, just searched for ‘Ohio wiggly rails’ to find it again because I thought that was relevant

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