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Another mudslide disrupts Pacific Northwest passenger service
The Rainman has cometh and taketh away. An investigation
should be underway to find out who’s responsible for the rain dance lately. That individual should be relocated to the central
plains where the moisture has been minimal this winter.
Wonder where they turned the Empire Builder this morning. BNSF had a minor derailment 4 miles east of Rock Island on the single track down by Rock Island Dam. Happened about 6 am, and as of 3 pm they hadn’t reopened the tracks yet
Whence comes the point…after BNSF spends $250 million improving its North Dakota infrastructure…does the besieged railroad spend more millions finding another route in North Western Washington that avoids the land/mud/tree slides?
A. I understand that the creation of a parking lot above the tracks has reduced the seepage of water into the ground at a place where it did not affect the embankment.
B. Perhaps it is just as well that I had to cancel, because of medical reasons, a trip that would taken me up to Vancouver and back and then to Chicago.
Several elitist white collar Yuppie NMBY city officials in Eastside (of Lake Washington) suburbs of Seattle have done their darndest to get former BN and NP branch line tracks ripped up and turned into bike trails – well inland from the Mudslide Express.
Makes you wonder sometimes, if the BNSF officials today, had wished their predecessors had kept the line that departed from Interbay thru Kenmore and Bothell and then reconnected with the main line at Snohomish Jct. Hindsight is always 20/20.
We have had over 3" of rain in less than 72 hrs
You are right John L. That line their taking up could have been used to route trains around downtown Seattle and the slide area. Also to bad BNSF gave up the old Northern Pacific Lake Shore line up around north Lake Washington through Woodinville and Snohomish. This line would have bypassed this slide area and connected directly to their east mainline through Stevens Pass and back west to Everett. The local government could have also used it to make a great commuter rail line through this car clogged area. Great planning guys!
DARRELL WENDT Send the rainman to California they need every bit of rain they can get.
I couldn’t see the mudslide in the photo?
it’s amazing and thank God we have not heard about massive fatalities yet.