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RAPID CITY, S.D. – Take a ride back in time to the 1860s, when steam locomotives crisscrossed the Missouri River Valley, leaving their mark on the Black Hills and Northern
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 it's 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 shouldn't fly it in the rain it becomes heavy. just like the space shuttle it gets water on it and freezes. with this it increa...
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 didn't want to get hit by any flying debris or anything. >> he plants his tripod and starts adjusting the camera moments before impact. >> i didn't think i was going to be able to get it on video but lucki...
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 didn't want to get hit by any flying debris or anything. >> he plants his tripod and starts adjusting the camera moments...
>> 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 would take me over to the train tracks in greensboro. and once he started getting a little bigger an...