Durning last years Severe Ice Storm that hit central Nebraska very very hard. I was fumbling through http://extremeinstability.com/06-12-31.htm and found this… http://extremeinstability.com/stormpics/2007/07-1-1-9816.jpg
http://extremeinstability.com/stormpics/2007/07-1-1-9950.jpg
http://extremeinstability.com/stormpics/2007/07-1-1-9952.jpg
These shots are on the BNSF line. It is realy increadable just how much Ice they got. Allan.
P.S. Credit the owner for the Great Pictures.
Ouch! That brings back memories of '98 around here:
Holy moly. [:O]
That is amazing! It’s a wonder that crossing flasher even works with all that ice on it. It’s a wonder the trains can get any traction in that stuff!
I saw something like this as a kid when I lived in Flagstaff, in early 1982. It’s insane how the ice can grow like that. In the Flagstaff case, it wasn’t nearly as thick, but it covered EVERYTHING.
When there is an ice storm around here, I stay indoors, so I don’t have any pictures.[}:)][;)]
We usually get more ice here in NC each year than we do actual snow. It’s not fun walking a train with 2 inches of ice on the ballast. Using flares to thaw out switch points, locks, angle cocks, etc. Trains don’t really have a problem with traction in ice, not much different than rain. The wheels just crush and roll the ice off the top of the rail usually spraying it out each side 10 or 15 ft.
There are several spectacular photos on that site, quite apart from the railroad shots. Thanks for alerting us to it.
Dave Nelson
I have several relatives that live in Holdrege. They are still being told it will be 2-3 weeks before power is restored in that town. Thankfully they have power generators to run their furnaces off of.
When I lived in Portland,I woke one morto find my car totally encased in ice about 1/4 inch thick.
Wow, those pics were incredible. Since I live in Phoenix, Arizona, those ice pictures might as well have been from Mars. Simply amazing.
Those Pictures are beyond awesome, they’re incredible!! OF course I would love them, I love the winter and do love snow, and am a snowboarder, and ice climber, so… [:D]
The photographer really captured the beauty of ice and winter.
I wish I took pictures when we had the big blizzard of 1996 in Philadelphia. I was only about 10 then, I had a week off from school and loved it, every day for 1 week it snowed!!! Oh I had a ball in it!!!
I also remember when I was 10 that year we also had an ice storm! My mom took me to the nearest school parking lot which was covered with ice. I took my hockey skates, stick, and net and I played ice hockey in the dark, in the school “ice” lot, my mom shinned headlights in my direction through.
Fun Fun Stuff
Wow, ice in Winter, imagine that! [:O]
