September and the first couple of weeks of October are usually dry on the wet side of the Cascades.
Mac
Another slide cancels SEA - Everett thru Monday afternoon.
But as well Kelso - PDX cancelled due to another slide.
Streak,
Everett does not end with an “e”.
Mac
And now another north of Everett. Cascades only cancelled Bellingham - Vancouver BC.
Thanks, I had not heard. Most likely occured along the bluffs in White Rock, BC.
Another slide cancelling SEA - Everett Wedensday - Thursday
Northline Sounder service is canceled tomorrow, 2/11/15 due to a mudslide that occurred this evening, Feb. 10th. Sound Transit will continue to monitor the situation, if there are no additional events, service is expected to resume Friday, 2/13/15.
Please visit www.SoundTransit.org/alerts for updates to Sounder Northline service prior to your commute.
another slide cancelling pass trains today and tomorrow. situation must be getting better. Went almost 5 weeks without one.
Northline Sounder service is canceled tomorrow 3/16/15 due to a mudslide. Sound Transit will continue to monitor the situation, if there are no additional events, service is expected to resume Wednesday, 3/18/15. Please monitor www.SoundTransit.org/alerts for updates to Sounder Northline service prior to your commute.
Well, there were 4 weeks of unseasonably warm and dry weather that culminated in a dramatic rainstorm yesterday, which dumped far more rain than a typical one. That seems to be what sets them off, but usually mudslide season is over by this time of year.
I was wondering why so many trains were stacked up south of Argo.
The count is up to 5 for this weekend’s count and another this Monday afternoon. Now no passenger service until Wedensday afternoon. All passengers will be bused to / from Everret - Seattle. Here are some fairly good videos of the latest.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/5th-landslide-closes-tracks-north-of-Seattle-296508601.html
Northwest, Mac and others:
I wonder to what extent BNSF could be “proactive,” as they say, about this chronic problem. The drumlins aren’t going away (except down onto the track), and it’s always going to rain a lot on Seattle-Everett.
Do the hills tend to slump in approximately the same places over and over, or is the entire mileage vulnerable? If the former, how about some localized dynamiting to bring the troublemakers down? (I’m assuming any people living up there tumbled onto the tracks a long time ago.) How far back and up does the railroad property go?
I’ve ridden the line many times, and it is surely one lovely ride. However, one would think it would be the despair of headquarters.
The GN relocated a couple of miles of track north of Edmonds away from the base of the hill and into the sound some time between 1900 and 1960. In doing so they introduced a single track segment in an otherwise double track line. I think the Sounder agency paid to double track this segment as part of the deal by which BNSF now runs Sounder trains between Seattle and Everett.
I do not know for sure but suspect railroad right of way is 100 feet, which leaves about 30 feet beyond the upslope ditch. Not much room. If the railroad were to undertake a program to move the hills say 100 feet away it would be a hugely expensive project, would generate thousands of trainloads of fill looking for a place to be dumped, and really p*** off the former owners of the homes on top of the hills that would have to be removed. Such a program is far beyond the ability of the railroad to pay for.
There may be spots where some things can be done, but I expect the slides to continue.
Mac
The slides happen all along that stretch, though some areas are worse than others. Most of the homeowners tend to wish that the noisy railroad would go away, and so are not very cooperative when it comes to slide prevention on their property.
Are the homes in no danger of sliding down the embankment?
Some probably are. We will all find out which when one or two go. There is more than one price for the georgeous view.
Mac
WsDOT starting 4 mitigation projects mot to beat wet season sometime after October. Seems a little too close for comfort.
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/News/2015/08/17_raillandslideprojects.htm
Report mitigation project complete. Just in time before rainy season. We will see if this works or a few new locations are found.
6 to 7 inches of rain closes SEA - PDX due to a mudslide.
Amtrak Service Disrupted between Tacoma and Olympia, Wash.
Nov. 14, 2015
1:00 pm PST
BNSF Railway Co. has imposed a moratorium on passenger trains between Tacoma and Olympia, Wash., due to a landslide. These tracks are used by Amtrak Cascades and Coast Starlight trains and are expected to reopen Monday morning.
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Anyone know if the Lakeview by-pass now under construction would have gone around this mudslide ?
Streak,
ATK’s location is too vague to allow anyone to answer the question.
The geographic south end of the Lakeview line joins/leaves the main a bit south of where I-5 goes under the railroad, which is a mile or so south of where the line begins (northward) to run along side the Sound. The hillsides north of the connection are higher and steeper than those south so odds are answer is YES, but can not be certain from data provided.
Mac
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