much of Alaska RR shut down due to weather

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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ALL passenger / freight service from Anchorage - Fairbanks cancellled due to large amounts of rain washing out track. Is this a harbinger of future winter sever weather ?

http://www.adn.com/2012/09/23/2637031/water-levels-continue-to-rise.html

Fairbanks paper reports Nenana river and others are flooding and also article on RR shutdown.

http://newsminer.com/pages/news

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Weather Happens. Here, there and everywhere.

Last year we had the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers flooding - this year their drainage area has been hammered by drought. What will next year bring - locusts?

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ALASKA RR freight service reinstated.

http://www.smartbrief.com/news/aar/storyDetails.jsp?issueid=134648CB-9CC1-4992-AA38-0D9997956D89&copyid=F169924C-DF12-4EBD-BCB2-E0581C4781E9&brief=aar&sb_code=rss&&campaign=rss