Watching The Weather Channel and I can’t believe what I’m seeing…90’s from the Great Lakes all the way down this way from the east coast across the Mississippi River well into the plains. You folks in the midwest with all that severe weather going on up there, thoughts and prayers for all of you.
I’m guessing that Rule 90 is in effect everywhere in the CSX network today and will be for months to come. This will surely create logjams in the nation’s rail network as I understand that rail traffic is up as a whole.
Eh… Im SW of Chicago in Illinois and its in the 80’s dropping to the low 70’s tonight… Hasnt really been that hot as much as it has been humid, lots of rain lately
I have a grade school friend who lives in Idaho Falls, and she calls herself Bev of the Frozen North. I talk to her on the phone every once in a while, and tell her she ought to come home.
She says no thanks, she couldn’t stand the heat and humidity.
I don’t understand all that rain in So. Illinois and Indiana. When it went over us Thursday, it was moving fast but only dropped about 2 inches.
Speaking of sun kinks. I thought that rail was always heated up to the highest temperature it was expected to experiance before being installed. That way, it would always be in a state of tension and never compression ( which would cause it to kink out ) Are there any railroad civil engineers in the audiance that could comment on this?
Our heat wave was finally broken by a severe thunderstorm, the aftermath of which is still going on two days later. NJTransit had one line out of service, and delays on all the rest. But at least it’s cooler now.
…George, I’m not a structural or civil engineer, but many conversations on here at one time or another indicates the CWR laying is accomplished {ideally}, in temps in the middle of the heat and cold spand it will be working with. That way some times in compression and others, tension…Ideally, half each way.