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We are pushing cold air into this. called cold packing. after we get it fully inflated with keeled air. check all the mechanisms inside to make sure its okay. using burniers to shoot the hot air into it and stand it up. janice: sounds very scientific? >> very scientific. hot air go up. janice: science is my game and weather has to cooperate. we have some pretty good rain buff this happened, but hopefully skies will clear. can you fly it in the rain. >> no. you really shouldnt fly it in the rain ...

Young train buff walks to the other side of the tracks and starts recording a tractor-trailer that stops right in the middle of the crossing. as the gates start to close, he quickly realizes he, too, is in danger. he makes a split second decision to run to a safer location. >> i noticed that there was about to be a bad day, so i took off running with my camera farther away from the tracks. i didnt want to get hit by any flying debris or anything. >> he plants his tripod and starts adjusting the ...

A railroad crossing by a recycling transfer station. while dad waits in the car, the young train buff walks to the other side of the tracks and starts recording a tractor-trailer that stops right in the middle of the crossing. as the gates start to close, he quickly realizes he, too, is in danger. he makes a split second decision to run to a safer location. >> i noticed that there was about to be a bad day, so i took off running with my camera farther away from the tracks. i didnt want to get hi...

>> the train hit the trailer pretty much dead center in the middle of the trailer. >> the train lifts the 18-wheeler off the ground and sheers off the rear axle. >> the trailer got split in half. the tandems went through the air like a frisbee. stuff was going everywhere. >> the massive collision is caught on camera by benjamin, who also videotapes trains as a hobby. he inherited his love of trains from his father who, in turn, got it from his dad. >> when i was small, my father and grandfather ...

And once he started getting a little bigger and we started going outside the tracks and watching trains and he got interested and started taking pictures of them. >> on the day of the collision, father and son head to one of their favorite spots to train watch. a railroad crossing by a recycling transfer station. while dad waits in the car, the young train buff walks to the other side of the tracks and starts recording a tractor-trailer that stops right in the middle of the crossing. as the gate...

>> the train lifts the 18-wheeler off the grund and sheers off the rear axle. >> the trailer was split in half. the trailer went through the air like a frisbee, there was stuff going everywhere. >> the massive collision is caught on camera by benjamin, who also videotapes trains as a hobby. preddy inherited his love of trains from his father, jim preddy jr., who in turn got it from his dad. >> when i was small, my father and grandfather would take me to the train tracks in greensboro and once he...

>> the train hit the trailer pretty much dead center in the middle of the trailer. >> the train shears off the rear axle. >> the trailer was split in half, and tandems went through the air like a pris frisbee. stuff was going everywhere. >> the massive collision is caught on camera by benjamin, who also videotapes trains as a hobby. he inherited his love of trains from his father who, in turn, got it from his dad. >> when i was small, my father and grandfather would take me to the train tracks i...

>> the train hit the trailer pretty much dead center in the middle of the trailer. >> the train lifts the 18-wheeler off the ground and shears off the rear axle. >> the trailer got split in half. it went through the air like a frisbee. stuff was going everywhere. >> the massive collision is caught on camera by benjamin, who also videotapes trains as a hobby. he inherited his love of trains from his father jim who, in turn, got it from his dad. >> when i was small, my father and grandfather would...

>> on the day of the collision, father and son head to one of their favorite spots to train watch. a railroad crossing by a recycling transfer station. while dad waits in the car, the young train buff walks to the other side of the tracks and starts recording a tractor-trailer that stops right in the middle of the crossing. as the gates start to close, he quickly realizes he, too, is in danger. he makes a split second decision to run to a safer location. >> i noticed that there was about to be a...