Railroad Testing Grounds News Today

But sometimes its a full sized plane so the government can see what happens when you crash something like that in the ground. sometimes its planes and sometimes its automobiles but sometimes what the government are crashing on purpose are trains. >> at a railroad testing grounds in colorado today, the department of transportation sends two cars at 26 miles an hour into a concrete wall. here it is again, different view. and unusual test to learn more about rail car safety. >> that high speed cras...

In the nose of the plane, right until the time the lens breaks. >> yeah, so that didnt work. that was the supposedly less combustible jet fuel bursting into flames just like it wasnt supposed to. this is the view from inside the cabin of the plane. the test dummies handle the impact of the crash and the cabin fills with flames and its bye-bye to the dummies. and when we think about the test crash stuff, its usually the cars and the dummies in the steering column. but sometimes its a full sized p...

>> yeah, so that didnt work. that was the supposedly less combustible jet fuel bursting into flames just like it wasnt supposed to. this is the view from inside the cabin of the plane. the test dummies handle the anymore impact of the crash but then the entire cabin justl< fills with flames and its bye-bye to those poor dummies. when we think about the government crash testing stuff its the cars with the dummies going head first into the steering column or whatever. its not always cars. but some...