I’m not sure if anyone has seen this, but it looks like the 15% of New Orleans that isn’t flooded, is railyard, lol…check this out!
That guy knows how to railfan. I thought the railroads had gotten most of their engines out? Are those shots pretty far inland?
I wonder what’s inside of the boxcars and containers. Depending on what’s in it, maybe the government could get permission from CSX to use what they can as supplies and provisions.
In Mississippi, they showed containers that had floated around for miles, then stacked up in big piles in people’s yards like toys… Many of which were refrigerated and full of frozen meet. You can imagine how nasty that’s going to get. I think the end cost of all this is going to be insane.
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ANybody have any info on NS’s Oliver STreet YArd? It’s right North of St. Claude Avenue near the french quarter, so it may be on higher ground.
At what elevation are the two streetcar storage and maintenance facilities, the Carrolton Barn and Shop and the one off of Canal Street? Hate to think of the fleet of genuine Perly Thomas 1926 streetcars that were in perfect running order now just material for a scrap drive! The new replica equipment can be replaced but those oldtimers are irriplaceable!
Oliver St. is still underwater. The NS causway over Lake Ponchetrain has “several miles of rail washed from the top of the bridge”.
The good news is the RR is up and running as far as Slidell.
See NS’s press release http://tinyurl.com/dzfko
Is the Amtrak station that the “Crescent” serve flooded out as well, or is it located on higher ground?
As the guy said on the link:
“These are really depressing images, I’m sorry about that, maybe they will help us be in prayer for those that are in desparate need.”
Ditto.
Yes, it is heart-wrenching to see those shots.
My heart and prayers are with them.
Please remember them in your prayers too.
Some railroads will pre-place storm recovery supplies, I too saw those meat containers, I bet you won’t be able to smell them over all the other smells. Something else, in Biloxi, an oil rig was floated right up to the beach, over 60 miles, kinda funny that those locomotives got moved 15 feet. I imagine since this storm came up in 3 or 4 days that the 4 railroad’s pictured units were just coupled up in an effort to save their equipment, a wise move, looked like the units survived, the containers, must have been floated, the boxcars didn’t blow over, although the doublestacks might have caught more wind.
Its funny that most of the engines and freight cars aren’t even moved but everything else has been blown somewhere…although a few engines and freight cars look like they were moved a little if you look closely.