With the hurricane coming I wondering what precautions the railrodads take to protect their rolling stock?
I just read somewhere that Shared Assets might be powering down some of their electrical equipment and interlockings.
Well I have prepared MY railroad by cleaning the dust off of it last night. I know you meant real railroads but I doubt many people here know that answer so this is one of those post that will coem and go with 3 or 4 replies.
MTA is closing down at 1900, I have heard that NJT is closing down at 1600.
The Route of the Broadway LION, being the Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota will continue to operate.
ROAR
The basic answer is: the smart railroads will move their equipment to shelter or safety and out of harm’s {possible} way. Subs may not have that much of an option, but may seek trackage rights to get out of Dodge.
NYC will be shuttering the subways the last I heard.
I am sure the East Coast corridor and the Acela corridor will be shuttered also {or at least stunted}.
When Hurricane Irene and Tropical storm Lee {double whammy} came through here and surrounding areas, some railroads lost tracks in flooded zones in NY and PA.Apparently they did not loose much in the way of equipment. Not sure about other areas. Some areas have just recovered.
The cities, the states and the government is not taking this storm lightly. As one who is in the apparent model direct path, I hope it will be of the lesser variety than of the greater variety. I expect to be without power for 5 days, as is typical of such storms especially with the flooding that may happen. Luckily, We will, however, be high and dry.
I hope everyone affected will be SAFE, and RECOVER quickly.
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I know in 2008 when a flood hit in a storm surge here in IA, Cedar Rapids had some grain hoppers filled with sand & parked them over a bridge to attempt to hold it in place…
From the reports, that effort failed & the bridge went under.
I did not research it any further, but I’m sure it is publicized.
It’s too bad for their loss, it was an interesting effort…
PS: I meant to say; They used the ‘Weight it, & Wait it’ method to that crisis…
SHhhhhh
My wife’s name is Sandy, and I don’t want her to get a good head of steam! [st]
Storms can sure cut into train time. It took a long time to clean this mess up at our house a few years back. I did love the symphony of chain saws over the following days though. I sure didn’t feel alone that’s for sure. It’s nice when the whole neighbourhood comes together. We had seven large Fir tree’s come down. I put it all out at the road and it was gone in no time. I have gas fireplaces so it didn’t do me any good.
That is a seven foot fence post in that root ball. The tree on the bottom had a four foot diameter. After we cut the last of the tree off the root ball it did not fall back down. I had walked around to the front of the house to get the truck to try and pull it down and heard and felt through the ground a massive whomp. It decided to fall on its own.
The front yard. At least it wasn’t as far to haul the stuff to the road.[(-D]
The dog run. My wife couldn’t figure out why the dogs were all cowering in the garage when she got home until she looked out the kitchen window.
Of course old man winter made cleanup ground to a halt a couple of days later. The tree is buried under the snow.
The large four foot diameter tree under the snow here. Not yet cut up. Had some train time while the snow melted[:D]
Get those chainsaws sharpened and ready to go. For those of you under storm watch my thoughts are with you all. Stay safe.
Brent[C):-)]
thanks everyone for the replies. The Staten Island Railroad is shutting down at 7pm. However the Staten Island West will continue to operate. in my den unless we are ordered toevacuate or we lose power.
Yes they do, here is a statement from NS:
"The safety of Norfolk Southern crews, our contractors and the public is front and center as NS readies for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy. We have personnel and supplies ready to quickly respond should the hurricane cause trees or other debris to affect our tracks. We’re also moving rolling stock and other material away from flood-prone areas.
Train service continues as we work with customers to determine how best to serve their needs. We’ll also stay in close contact with federal, state and local emergency management authorities as the storm develops.
Service updates will be available at www.nscorp.com."
And here is a video of CSX taking the power out of Oak point yard, you can see it is pretty well cleared out already:
Saw plenty of northbound CSX and Amtrak today. Only one southbound Amtrak and I’m pretty sure it was the Cardinal anyhow. WMATA is shutting down tonight. VRE’s down too.
All AMTRAK service in and out of Boston has been cancelled. The MBTA and commuter rail are still running right now. Most flights have been cancelled already.
I’m hoping my copy of Model Railroader doesn’t get delivered until the storm is over.
I hope everyone makes through OK and stay safe. I was part of 3 man team sailinga 46 foot sailboat from Maryland to Ft Lauderdale but we ended up putting in Fernandina Beach ahead of the storm. Frustrating how some wind and rain can screw up everything. Hopefully this will give you guys on the east coast some extra time on the MRR waiting for the storm to pass.
Boston has now announced that all MBTA service will shut down Monday at 2 PM. I don’t know if that includes commuter rail.
In the “odd headlines” department…Voluntary Evacuations Ordered.
Basically all of the passenger railroads have cancelled trains for today so far, and they will most likely announce cancellations for tomorrow soon. Amtrak has shut down the NEC, SEPTA, and NJ Transit are all shut down for today.
SEPTA learned a hard lesson to not keep equipment at Trenton last year with Irene.
