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Major snowstorm disrupts rail service in the Northeast
Please don’t use the silly, unofficial Weather Channel winter storm names that no one else in te industry is using. Would TRAINs randomly decide to name diesel models?
Please don’t use the silly, unofficial Weather Channel winter storm names that no one else in te industry is using. Would TRAINs randomly decide to name diesel models?
I see somebody let Guse out again.
The Northeast once again demonstrates its incompetence. Downed trees? Why? Because the tree hugger environ-mentalists got laws passed which prevent the trimming back of growth. The solution? One of two outcomes. Shut down all freight railroads until the environ-mentalists give in. Or cut back the trees and when the kooks show up, have the railroad police arrest them for trespassing on private property when they try to stop the tree trimming.
Too much snow? That is because nobody east Buffalo has adequate equipment, well maintained, for snow removal. Any amount of snow beyond 2 snowflakes is too much snow for them.
That other article about the Dakotas and Minnesota, makes their snow sound like business as usual, because everybody involved has heavy duty, well maintained equipment to deal with snow, ready and standing by. Of course, it helps to have a lack of people who are 5 cans short of a 6 pack, unlike the Northeast.
40" of snow and up to 80 MPH winds will bring down trees no matter what Mr. Guse says. I have lived in New England all my life and I do know what more than “a few flakes of snow is”. Do not insult us. The RRs are doing the best that they can to recover.
The MBTA did a remarkable job clearing the Greenbush line (which follows the MA southeast coast and got absolutely hammered with wind) of fallen trees. Service was slow due to power outages (trains had to be walked across streets where the gates were not working) but all in all a stellar job given the circumstances.
The MBTA did a remarkable job clearing the Greenbush line (which follows the MA southeast coast and got absolutely hammered with wind) of fallen trees. Service was slow due to power outages (trains had to be walked across streets where the gates were not working) but all in all a stellar job given the circumstances.
Uhhh - Jeffery.
Did you read the amounts of snow?
“Over a foot of snow in the midwest” compared with “up to three feet” in the NE. (In fact, some areas had nearly 4 1/2 feet).
Also, Midwestern snow tends to have a much lower moisture content than coastal NE snow resulting in far more dense, heavy and wet, icy compaction.
In the Midwest, a fast rotary fan propels it away akin to dust.
Heavy, wet NE snow is like shoveling heavy pudding.
How 'bout getting your anger/hostility a little under control before attacking without merit?
I saw a number of Amfleet I coaches parked in Amtrak’s Ivy City coach yard this morning. I wonder if Amtrak brought them down to Washington to park them to be out of the harms way of the storm, or were they just stored there because they couldn’t be used on Northeast regional trains to Boston or Springfield?
M-NR needs to hire some pyychic arborists to predict the dangers of trees on the lines, especially the ones with catenary. Removal of these potential hazards would be good and provide a lot of nice hardwood for local woodstoves, maybe even at a (horrors!) profit.
M-NR needs to hire some pyychic arborists to predict the dangers of trees on the lines, especially the ones with catenary. Removal of these potential hazzards would be good and provide a lot of nice hardwood for local woodstoves, maybe even at a (horrors!) profit.
If we in New England were to cut down all the trees threatening power lines and catenaries, as Mr. Guse suggests, New England would thus resemble, well, Illinois, only with hills and mountains. No thanks.
Perhaps the New England railroad’s could harness Mr. Guse’s uninformed hot air into an industrial strength snow melter for use during blizzards.
AND I THOUGHT LIBERALS WERE BAD CHILL OUT MR.JEFFERY GIVE IT A REST.