Not sure if I’m at the correct place here…I wish to say to Houston Ed, I’ll be Praying for you and your family members now for a few days. I understand what is being predicted and of course it appears very serious.
Quentin in Muncie
Here in southern California, on the eastern grades of Tehachapi and east through the High Desert, the BNSF and UP trains are often ordered to stop until the winds subside. In the Houston area, more than heavy winds are predicted, a hurricane! I wonder if Ed will have a few days off … and even if there will be a yard for him thereafter.
There will be a yard. Whether it will be operatable or not is the question.
CSX’s Gentilly Yard survived Katrina - however all cars and locomotives had to have wheels or traction motors changed out account water intrusion.
Ed has posted on this site;
I believe they are now listing the hurricane as a # 4 status…That will be terrible for so many. And on Houston Ed…I believe he is retired. So many people are going to be effected by this terrible storm…It will be in the area for several days. Will make terrible flooding.
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/08/25-hurricane-harvey
Most of the trains are held out as of now, even though it is not bad at the moment.
After a…lets say a fight with a bothersome illness, I retired, so I don’t have to worry about switching cars in the rain, but…standard for the PTRA with a cat 3 is to tie down the yards at both ends, keep 1 crew on hand in each yard and with till the storm is past before resuming work.
Where I worked, North Yard, we were five feet above sea level, but right across from the ship channel turning basin, so we could watch the big ships ride the tidal surge!
To many bayous to cross the keep trains heading in, and nowhere to put them right now if they did.
The yard 5’ above sea level sounds like a problem with the predicted 12’ surge, although it migh not be as high when it gets to Houston.
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.758732,-95.2929761,2559m/data=!3m1!1e3
The rather odd shaped area at the bottom marked Buffalo Bayou is the turning basin and the actual end of the channel, North Yard is straight up….with the tidal surge predicted at a possible 13’…betting they have to change a lot of traction motors come Monday or Tuesday.
For those of you who saw the video of the dump truck hitting the highway sign, go up to Market street, then to the right till you get to Loop 610…that’s the spot.
Hearing Harvey is to stay in the area until Wednesday before a steering current moves it away from Gulf Coast Texas.
They (the weather geeks) have it all over the place, one model has it stalling out, then reversing and looping back into the gulf and heading northeast towards Houston by Wednesday…or going inland then stalling and sitting over Matagorda for a few days…just have to wait and see.
And the weather guessers here in CO are acting like we get none of it, even though they show the path of the thing coming here and then turning east to KS…this has the weatherbubbas bamboozled over at Weatherliar U.
Hope you get some sleep.
Yeah, one track shows it blasting right on through to you guys!
For those interested in an interesting “picture” the NWS full-conus radar page is fascinating:
https://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php
You may have to scroll to get Harvey in view, but it’s pretty interesting right now, anyway.
Looks like San Antonio is getting the brunt of the winds and Houston is getting a lot of rain. (10:40AM PDT 8/26/2017)
Houston/Hobby shows 4.23 inches in the past 30 hours.
UPDATE: As of noon CDT SUnday, showing almost 12 inches total.