Glad to hear BCR is usable. Hope they won’t mothball it again!
I wonder why they detrain 20 miles away. I remember seeing a video of a freight going thru Whistler, and it seemed it was taken from a station area.
CN has reopened the Ashcroft Sub as of this morning, and trains are starting to run westbound on our line again.
At this time of posting, we have had another 20mm of rain from the second of three predicted ‘rivers’ on eastern Vancouver Island. It’s still very dull and grey, and rain is falling heavily. We get a break on Sunday and Monday, but the worst of the three is still to come on Tuesday. I think we’re in for a world of hurt.
Guess there won’t be too many forest fires in your area in the near future.
In the end, it may make things worse if the underbrush takes advantage of the rain and sprouts big-time…
The rain is causing problems but trains are still moving as of right now.
A VIA special (two F40s and a single coach) is deadheading freight crews from Vancouver to Boston Bar tonight, running against the current of traffic on the CN Yale Sub.
Forget what I wrote last night, as of this morning both the CN Yale and CP Cascade Subs are closed due to flooding.
The deadhead VIA special never made it to Boston Bar, they reversed direction at some point and are currently at Chilliwack on their way back to Vancouver.
A shame they didn’t take a couple sleepers, those freight crews were ordered for 1700-1800 yesterday. On duty for 16+ hours on a deadhead that never even made it to the destination…
Are the DH crews being paid on Time or just the rate for the Trip?
Under our contracts deadheads get paid by the mile, just like any other road service. I believe there is a provision for overtime to be paid if you average less than 12.5 miles per hour.
YEE HAW!!! (or honorary-Canadian equivalent)
He’s back with us!
Thanks for the picture. That really says it all . The leaning abutmaent with piles showing means what for repairs?
Wow … just wow!
I would be suprised if any of the old bridge is saved.
I am wondering how much deeper that visible piles actually go down in the ground?
When the RR was built was a quick culvert or maybe even a bridge built to enable the RR construction to proceed? I assume the highway was built later. Then when the road was built how much boring was done to engineer the abutments for the RR bridge pilings? Were any borings done away from the planned bridge? Surely in the distant past there was evidence of landslides or severe flooding?.
Were there enough ground borings to note the past landslides / flooding potential?
Maybe some RR historian can give us an overview? also someone about the road construction?
additional photos:
https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/351934/New-photos-of-repairs-underway-on-Highway-1-in-Fraser-Canyon
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bc-highway-1-damage-highway-3-closed
Note the fiber optic conduit
Maybe they will save the bridge …
Is it still raining? That is a tough job and a major challenge for the Engineering men to overcome. I presume there are no alternative routes to bypass this part of the canyon. Looks like this will take more than one week to reopen.
Basically everything in the canyon above high water and bedrock, is either lanslide debris or alluvium. The general geologic term is mass wasting.