Here’s a link to a forum with photos of the recovery of UP’s former Southern Pacific main line between Oakridge and Cascade Summit, Oregon, blocked by a mudslide on January 19:
Thanks for the links. Nice shots. Tonight’s newswire reports that 700,000 board feet of logs have been recovered and the slide volumn was 2.3 million yards. Don’t know if all of it has to be moved.
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Those pictures are of Fields. The rail line makes a “U-Turn” through a tunnel. That tunnel is in the ridge at the top of the picture and the roadbed is in the large white stripe on the left, going upgrade out of the bottom of the picture. The large white stripe just to the right of the rail roadbed is the access road from Hwy 58. The “lower level” (the middle step in the reverse loop between Heather and Fields) is about 150 feet lower than the upper level in this photo.
It is rather surprising that this area slid since so many really bad weather events that lead to slides such as this have come down between Oakridge and Heather - a notoriously unstable area. But not at Fields. Appears to have take out the siding and covered the road and railroad just below.
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