NS is actually fishing the track off the lake bottom back up onto the bridge deck!
Some fishing poles - what do you think they used for bait?
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Thank you for the link. This aerial shows the draw before Katrina.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.204654,-89.835731&spn=0.002792,0.004943
DANG! now that is “git er done”
Adrianspeeder
Is the rest of the bridge structurally intact? How about that NS main in general?
OK someone explain something to ol’ Forrest Gump here…
What the hayseed was that track anchored onto?
It looks like ties and track on a concrete deck, was this ballasted?
I can only assume its a concrete deck that was ballasted to hold the track in place and the storm surge washed away all the ballast, and sent the track over the side. Am I about right here[?]
That’s how I would call it. [8D]
Is this any help ?
www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=76910
You are exactly right!
I think the deck lost one or two sections to the storm. The rest of NS up to this bridge (at Slidell) is in working order. They had to remove 3700 trees, though. Oliver yard in NO is underwater, though. Once the water is pumped out, they can get on with putting the track in NO back in service.
Thanks Don – what a shot! There are some advantages to CWR, aren’t there!
On the whole, if you want ‘can do’, talk to a railroad…
That operation is simply Incredible!!! That someone thought of it , pretty ingenous!! And marshalled the equipment to do it, and that some “beancounter” actually was sold on it, and then would approve it…I would say that Norfolk Southern Engineers, if they can finish it, will score an engineering marvel…For the record!!!
It almost looks like the track isnt even ballasted on the picture that was posted.
This is exactly how the CSX bridge between Biloxi and Ocean Looks. The swing bridge made it fine. If you want some detailed photos of the storm damage all along the Gulf Coast, try the below link.
The lesson here is private enterprise isn’t sitting around waiting for a hand out or pointing fingers. It digs in and fixes the problem. In the meantime the Red Cross just announced (see their web site) that the reason the people at the Superdome didn’t get food or water is because the LOUISiANA home land security department (not the feds) wouldn’t let them take any there because, “We want those people out of there”.