The rails are slowly sinking!!! Sad sight indeed!
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| Posted by AZ Mike on February 2, 2014 | |
Hope the customers don't need those cars in a hurry.
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A repair estimate was done last week...
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| Posted by knine on February 3, 2014 | |
How ironic that this pic is taken on February 2nd. Groundhog day. Like the movie, every day is the same, over and over for this train.
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Surely its not beyond recovery? It is on the track all you have to do is send a couple of locos out there and pick the thing up and bring it back. I don't see the problem.
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There's two problems with recovering it - first there's a derailed car ahead of the train. Secondly Transport Canada has embargoed the line it is so unsafe.
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| Posted by on February 3, 2014 | |
Transport Canada has forbidden any train movement on this line for the time being.
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| Posted by B Denny on February 4, 2014 | |
They had bidding on the railroad in bankruptcy on mid-January. Fortress Investment group was the winning bidder.
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the condition of the tracks and engine is really scare
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Oh yeah. That's going to require some roadbed tamping and tie lifting just to get it safe to move those cars. The engine may need to be loaded on flatbed trucks if they can't stabilize the ground.
On the Frisco by the mid 1970s there were branch lines on which I'd ride the engine pilot with a sledgehammer, against the advice of the engineer, and run ahead and drive in spikes as the train followed. Sometimes I'd shim the rails first with tie plates. The rest of the crew laughed, but I am pretty sure I saved us from similar fates on many occasions. When the relative tilt between boxcars swaying in opposite directions starts reaching about 40° at 5 mph, that track isn't for this world much longer. It was sad, because I loved some of those old branches. Soon, Frisco merged with BN and the lines were sold or abandoned.
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Now that I have seen other photos of the derailed hopper wagons and of the location, I see why they can't recover it by rail. But send Kenworth or a Mac down there and a couple of cranes to shift the thing! I've seen what can be done on TV shows like "Monster Moves"
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Is that thing still out there, or have they "recovered it" ? (or what might be left by now?)
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