Hi
I’ve got some (limited amounts due to missing out on much of filming it because I was helping the neighbors move all these fancy cars like jags et. ) footage of a flood we had that the water had built up on the other side of the R&R tracks and then a coal train came along and after getting the train over the worst part of the situation the conductors decided it wasn’t safe so they unhooked the engines and left the cars of coal. sure enough the water when it crested the tracks began to turn the cars over as the R. ties which hold the rails in place, began to shoot up across the sky about 30 to maybe 50 ft in the air (not straight up but like missles fired across a pasture at you) and when enough had stopped supporting the coal cars, they fell over.
I had in places, coal that was 2 to almost 3 ft deep in out field.
this all happened about 2 hours after the raining had stopped. It was sunny and quite pleasant out.
when you are dealing with water and don’t know for sure how it will effect your surroundings you should expect almost anything.
the last thing I expected that day was to have railroad ties shot at me from across a pasture but that’s exactly what happened.