WOW, winds powerful enough to blow a train off a track? That's windy alright!
We had a very short, but very strange storm about 4 or 5 years ago that was like that. It occurred at night, and it was during nice weather, because I had my windows open, and my living room drapes were literally "flying" out about from the windows. There was also a very strange bright light at the time, but it was steady, so I'm not sure it was lightning.
It lasted about 15 minutes, and blew down a lot of trees in the neighborhood, including one in front of our building, Luckily, we didn't have any power outage, and except for the 3 cars which were damaged from the tree that feel here on this street, I don't recall there being any injuries. Still very odd.