I have NEVER seen it this bad on a streach of Train Track.
http://www.railroadforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11449
Allan.
owwwwww
thats the worst I have ever seen
I expect that that was Excepted track that is restricted to 10 MPH max and does not service Hazmat. If one looks hard enough around any railroad property you will find some segments of deplorable track.
Looks pretty sound to me…NOT
NOW that is some reallllllllyyyyyy bad looking track they got on there hands and of course you know if they don’t fix that soon we’ll be reading about a derailment on that line. Now The FRA should place that line out of service until CSX gets out there and fixs it.
Well,
The joint bars are doing what the were designed to do…if you watch the second vid, you can the the sink/mud hole at the joint bar to the far right.
Looks like they did a long dutch joint as a temp repair to the problem, and never went back and undercut/tamped/fixed the underlying problem…and the track has a slow order on it.
The ballast is to big for a exempted, old, or industrial track or spur…rock like that isnt cheap.
At least there are joint bars…you should see some of the old SP tracks in East yard[:D]
Ed
Wow I sure hope there aren’t any Hazmat Trains on the line then again I have seen worse track over the years.
If it is not excepted (shouldn’t be - too close to a public crossing), then there are 4 obvious FRA defects and a track inspector in hot water. Before anything blows up, the motor track inspector can easily put a temporary fix on the problem. (and we all do NOT know all the facts here)…If it were me, the track is out of service until it meets Cls. 1 spec…possible FRA Code 1…
Not a dutchman, it is a rail plug. Most railroads will not allow a rail shorter than 16 feet in a main or secondary track.
According to the information accompanying the clip, it is excepted track. If it shouldn’t be, as MC states, I wi***hat just once the right person would see this. Whatever it takes to get a job done right!
I can see the track inspector now: :I would have gotten away with it if not for those meddiling foamers!" lol
I recall standing on the platform at Rantoul, Il wondering if the ICG locomotives were going to rock back, or fall over onto the platform… And that was on the main…
Look like the so-called FRA needs to a much better job. That is putting alot of the Public in harms way.
My dad does not believe the clips. He thinks they are fake. I told him, why would someone spend so much time doctoring a video clip. I live about 2 hours from Bethelem, I live just above Philadelphia. We might be going out there, but I do not know when, and I said, we will see who is right.
Deferred Manitenance: Imagine the ride across that track?
Ed points out what is obvious to me and interesting about the video shooter. The rising joint is not the problem; the soft spot to the right of the January fifth video is the problem. Interesting, in the later video you can see the spikes pulling but keeping the rails in gauge. I suspect that the soft spot has been worked by now, unless there’s some really odd problem there.
I have seen similar soft spots from time to time but not for long. I can recall a similar one near a grade crossing on the BN in Quincy IL. It showed up one day and was gone in another day or two.
I dont know who this john fellow is but my advice to him is to stay far far away from track that does that. if he was standing next to the track when he was filming the two minute version, well dare i say, he is crazy. that track could have rolled out from underneath the train at anytime. stay off of the railroad john almeida, you will live a lot longer, or who ever else did the filming.
You missed the WICT, the MILW raod branchlines… the CNW branches and the entire Rock Island railroad. not to mention the little East Troy railroad pre 1980…
Randy
You missed the WICT, the MILW raod branchlines… the CNW branches and the entire Rock Island railroad. not to mention the little East Troy railroad pre 1980…
Randy
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You forgot to mention the Chicago Great Western.
You forgot to mention the Chicago Great Western.
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The only CGW train I saw was on the ground