Off topic but had a rail failure on MARC portion on NEC
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CAT failure at Sunnyside yard in New York today. Delayed trains this afternoon.
Slightly off topic but did not find it on Amtrak but appears Amtrak still has not cleared the ROW of possible trees fouling tracks
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Feb 25 at 9:47 AM
MARC Penn Line
Although not a Amtrak problem Amtrak took a hit in New Haven. Problem fixed at about 1300,
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Although not a
Amtrak problem Amtrak took a hit in New Haven. Problem fixed at about 1300,
Keystone trips cancellled de to trees in the CAT. Another example of Amtrak not maintaining the ROW. It is only necessary action to prevent these problems by triming any trees in ROW that will sooner or later fall onto CAT. Trees all get old, rotten, and eventually die and some will fall onto CAT.
https://twitter.com/AmtrakNECAlerts/status/1146222533542330375
Problem worse as cancellations may exted into July 4th
https://www.amtrak.com/alert/modified-amtrak-keystone-service-this-wednesday-morning.html
Maintaining trees on property you own is one thing - eliminating trees as a potential problem on property you don’t own is another.
Do not know property laws in each state of Amtrak’s ROW. However here any tree or vegetation cutting the plane of property can be removed by owner of property not tree owner. We just have case of a person removing tree limbs of another property’s tree threating his home. Tree owner refused to balance his tree. This tree then fell onto tree owners home and he has no recourse against trimmer because of the over weight parts of tree falling on his home.
BTW full disclosure have a neighbor’s tree liimb threating my home.
What I am referring to is tree(s) say 100 feet tall - 20 feet (or so) from the property line falling across the property line and onto Amtrak facilities. I am not talking about a overhanging branch.
Visited my son in Kansas in the middle of May. They had a windy T’storm and at a property ‘down the street’ a fully mature ‘live’ old tree was blown over with the root structure ending up 7 - 8 feet in the air. Fortunately, no dwelling structures were impacted, however the top of the tree was on the 3rd property over, not just the neighbors property.
More CAT power problems at Newark and north of Baltimore
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Must be a major CAT problem as still problem starting at 1030 and still at 1330
Acela Train 2103 is still stopped outside of Washington (WAS) due to an overhead power issue. We will update as more information becomes available.
EDIT found earlier tweet that solved about 1330
Another bad day , Meteor among other NEC trains WASH - BAL CAT problems from about 1830 till about 2300
Silver Meteor Train 97 which departed New York (NYP) on 8/11 is stopped north of Washington (WAS) due to overhead power issues in the area. We will update as more information becomes available.
Line of severe T’storms passing through the Baltimore-Washinton area.
It is time for Amtrak to get serious about tree removal on it ROW… As well local private lands with potential tree damage needs notification of hazards…
Amtrak did a massive tree removal project about ten years ago all the way to the property line. Might be time to do it again, if fallen trees are truly the reason for the delayed trains.
However, trees on the ‘other side’ of the property line don’t know they shouldn’t fall across the property line when their time comes. Trees can weigh well over 100 tons and will fall where they fall. Depending on how close active rail facilities are to the property line they can be easily damaged by falling trees from over the property line.
Many tree species like to bend toward the sunlight. Guess what – RR ROW – perfect location for tree to grow to. Especially true for evergreens such as pine trees.
Amtrak has suffered downed CAT wires at or near the Portal bridge. Now we have wires that are not subject to trees so why has both tracks become inoperative ? This poster believes that the PRR style of having all track’s CAT wires supported by a single cross wire suspended from poles outside of the tracks is a receipt for tearing down all track’s wires. Now nothing has yet been posted as to why the wires are down but if a train snagged CAT on one track often all tracks or some other track’s CAT will be pulled down.
It really is time for Amtrak to get funds to convert all CAT to constant tension wire that will have each track’s CAT physically isolated from all other tracks. We recognize that The locations that have the possibbility of 160 MPH tracks need doing first but Amtrak probably needs 1 or 2 more CAT construction crews employed. That would certainly speed up conversion. It would enable more time for constant tension installations and leave more crew(s) not being diverted to the emergency repairs when needed.
Does anyone know how many AMTRAK CAT construction and maintenance crews Amtrak has ?
Downed wires bring major delays on Amtrak, NJ Transit rail lines - nj.com
Appologize as this happened yesterday at about 1800 (6PM )
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Another signal failre south of BAL about 2.1/2 hours cleared just befor 2100.
Acela Train 2126 is currently operating approx. 25min late due to earlier signal issues in Baltimore (BAL).