Why Is Rail Service Interrupted By Snow, Especially On The East Coast ???
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Sat Dec-25-10 08:41 PM
Why Is Rail Service Interrupted By Snow, Especially On The East Coast ???
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Sat Dec-25-10 08:44 PMOriginal message
1. 20 to 30 foot drifts in open areas
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Sat Dec-25-10 08:46 PMReply #1
2. So... Do They Wait For The Spring Melt ???
Use dynamite...
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Sat Dec-25-10 08:49 PMOriginal message
3. They don't have rotaries here, plus
switches clog and freeze, signals systems fail, and everything related to making up and breaking up trains is generally slowed by deep snow.
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Sat Dec-25-10 08:55 PMReply #3
And thanks...hadn't thought about the switches.
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Sat Dec-25-10 08:59 PMReply #4
Once one little piece falls........you know the rest
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Sat Dec-25-10 10:32 PMOriginal message
6. Working as an archivist at a railroad museum I have seen a lot of
pictures of trains in the snow but many of them were trains that got stuck in deep snow. Depends on how deep it is.
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Sat Dec-25-10 11:54 PMOriginal message
7. Train tracks should have tunnels over them. That would keep out the snow.
Edited on Sat Dec-25-10 11:54 PM by valerief
Would cost way less than WAR.
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Sun Dec-26-10 12:01 AMOriginal message
8. Much of the East Coast area is electrified.
This can create a lot more problems, especially with newer electrical equipment that has a lot more "advanced" electronic components.
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Sun Dec-26-10 12:18 AMOriginal message
9. Mush, if not most of east coast rails are old and in very poor condition...
they do get cleaned off eventually, but not till after delays...we get huge drifts and havce few places to put the snow when it is removed.
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