Here are some pics of CN lines flooded near Chetwynd, British Columbia. Wet winter, cool spring, delayed melt of large snow pack + heavy rains = flash floods and washout.
Photos source unknown, sorry.
That will cost somebody big time.
In the real world those are expensive problems, though nothing money won’t fix. In the model world, they would make interesting scenes. Because I model only what I have seen or remember, I can’t do those, though I do remember loads of hoppers filled with gravel sitting on the swing bridge in Winona trying to keep the water from washing the bridge out. It worked the years I was there. I also remember the year it did not work in Read’s Landing and the whole bridge and right of way washed down the river.
That’s a look I WON’T be modeling, thank you.
I remember in the mid-80’s when heavier than usual precipitation/runoff raised the level of the Great Salt Lake. The UP was scrambling like mad to raise the fill, and track, to keep their main line above the rising waters.
My prototype, having been developed for a couple of thousand years, has armored most slide-prone and flood channel areas with masonry. I’m going to be carving many square feet of linoleum to try to duplicate the look. Of course, heavy rains in Central Japan are not a sometime thing. More like a monthly (or more often) event.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Whoever took those photos has a pretty descent camera! The Pentax K100D is no slouch.
Those first two photos, make it look like they are HO models, the locos tossed around like toys. But in reality those little buggers are tons and tons of heavy metal. Cool looking pics though.
Thanks for the pics.
Interesting how the Loco’s were thrown aside like toys.
A little more info on the whole situation can be found here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/07/08/bc-peace-river-evacuation-alert.html
Totally devastating, not just for CN but all the people in the Peace. I hope that the weather changes for you soon.
Oh, goodie. I can’t WAIT to model THAT.
Just what I always wanted to do.
Mire perfectly good locos in mud.
We don’t have to model everything in the real world.
Spectacular, but for those of us in the States, you can find some of that closer to home, from Kansas City north along the Missouri River in NW Missouri, NE Kansas, Eastern Nebraska, Western Iowa and South Dakota.
…not to mention North Dakota, Manitoba, and some of Saskatchewan…[angel]
Here in Colorado, we had a very warm spring, and all the snow melted way too fast, now we’re having flooding problems in the high country.